Sunday, May 31, 2026
More Mythical Problems
Some things are too on-the-nose to be believed immediately, so when Jonathan Turley read about the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan spending $18,000 to remove Community Watch signs in order to foster "inclusivity," he had to check whether it was a Babylon Bee story or if it was real.
It was, of course, real, because Ann Arbor isn't just a Blue city, but a Blue city with a far-left academic population that considers itself the most virtuous group of people in the world.
And virtue, these days, does not mean what it used to mean, but rather something closer to one-upping everybody else on making symbolic moves that either don't make things better or make things significantly worse.
Now removing Neighborhood Watch signs is an example of the former. Nobody takes Neighborhood Watch signs seriously, and Neighborhood Watch groups almost never really exist; when they do, city authorities work mightily to ensure they do nothing that actually reduces crime. That would be vigilantism, which is a no-no, and these days, reporting a crime is almost a purely symbolic act unless there is blood flowing in the streets.
