Misery May Love Company, but That’s Not Good Public Policy

There is no better way to do this than to turn your society over to the whims of violent criminals and communist mobs. By enacting “soft-on-crime” policies — which are actually pro-crime policies; let’s call a spade a spade — the Left are hoping to create a culture of chaos and death so they can gain more power and undo everything we hold dear.

And it doesn’t matter to them how many people get hurt in the process of building that commie utopia. In Minneapolis, two people have now been shot and killed because Democrats encouraged them to “resist” ICE. And now, a writer for The Nation has shared how she intentionally didn’t report her violent gang rapists to police because she wants to abolish prisons and police.

A few years ago, in the middle of my doctorate and writing a dissertation about rape, I was violently raped by a group of men. For @thenation, I wrote about how that experience does and doesn’t align with my desire for the abolition of prisons and police.https://t.co/bbWXismXEK

— Anna Krauthamer (@AnnaKrauthamer) January 24, 2026

Here’s what she wrote (emphasis added):

There in that hotel, a little over four years ago, I was raped by a group of men during a three-day trip I took to Las Vegas with two of my best friends. Of the rape, which lasted all night, I remember both too much and too little. I never did anything about it. I didn’t tell anyone who could have done something about it, either, such as the hotel staff or the Las Vegas police. I never considered taking any kind of action at the time, but ever since the possibility has haunted me as a particularly cruel version of a path not taken. And although in my mind, the hotel phone remains permanently available to my call, that isn’t true either—and in more ways than one.

With the passage of time comes the passing of statutory deadlines. There’s no room in the law for my personal combination of indecision, confusion, and avoidance. Put differently, the legal frameworks we have for processing crimes often conflict with our emotional and affective responses to those crimes. But more than anything, the passing of the statutes of limitations for pressing criminal charges against those men has forced me to confront the reasons why I never pursued legal action against them in the first place, although it hasn’t yet allowed me to accept that I never will. To me, there will always be a phone in a Las Vegas hotel waiting for my call.

The simple answer to the question of why I never reported the rape is that I believe in the abolition of police and prisons. The less simple, less articulate answer is that to pursue prosecuting and potentially incarcerating other people is inconceivable to me, even when they have hurt me more than I could have ever believed possible. Because of this, I can only vocalize what I want in negative and inherently impossible terms: that all I want is for it to never have happened. The prospect of being a participant in other peoples’ incarceration is as alien to me as anything could be, to the point that I can only conceive of it in childish terms—how silly and strange it would be to have a group of people incarcerated at my expense when doing so would do nothing to fix the damage they have already so thoroughly done.

How incredibly selfish and self-centered Anna is. She has decided her ability to virtue signal and feel morally superior is more important than protecting other women from being raped.

She has decided that her political preferences and whims are more important than the safety of the rest of society. She was raped, and admits these men damaged her. But instead of not wanting them to be punished for raping her, she also wants them to remain free to do the same damage to other women. 

Misery loves company, I guess?

What if they had raped one of her friends? Would Anna have coerced her friend into not reporting them to the police? Would Anna’s friends have made the same political calculation about abolishing police and prisons, justifying letting gang rapists continue to harm women, just so they can achieve their political ends? What happened to “my body, my choice”? I don’t want to be raped, but Anna decided that I — and other women — have to be subjected to violent sexual abuse by criminal men because Anna doesn’t like police or prisons.

The way stuff like this “never happens” is when we take criminals and put them behind bars. The reality is this: evil exists in the world. We have laws and law enforcement and prisons — and have for centuries — because there are just some bad people in society, and we recognized a long time ago that separating these monsters from civilized people was the way to keep society, well, civilized. Anything else — from “mental health care” to “social programs” — is merely putting a bandaid on an amputated limb.

But the Left doesn’t want to reduce crime anymore, and they don’t want a civilized society anymore. Civilized society is racist, bigoted, homophobic, and just bad, according to them. It’s nothing but a colonizing, oppressive, White supremacist regime. They prefer we all live at the mercy of criminals who will rob, rape, and murder us without losing a wink of sleep. Those monsters are aided and abetted by women like Anna. 

This is not only insane, it’s dangerous. And it cannot be tolerated.