By Meg Weinberger | Commentary, The Star News Network
I spent decades working with abused, abandoned, and neglected animals before I ever served in the Florida Legislature, and one thing became obvious very early: good intentions only get you so far.
You can want to save every dog that comes through the door. You can have volunteers ready to help. But the food still has to be bought, the veterinarian still has to be paid, and somebody still has to have the room and money to take responsibility for that animal.
That is probably why I have so little patience for politicians who treat compassion as something they can claim simply by saying the right things.
The Left does this constantly. Socialism is sold almost entirely in moral language. Give government more control, we are told, and society becomes more humane.
Nobody is selling that pitch harder right now than Abdul El-Sayed.
Before he was a socialist standard-bearer, El-Sayed oversaw Detroit Animal Control through the city health department, an operation a whistleblower described at the time as a “dog slaughterhouse.” Thousands of dogs and cats were euthanized in Detroit under his watch. Years later, he cleared things up on his own podcast, admitting he was “not much of an animal guy.”
Neither is the company he keeps. El-Sayed’s loudest celebrity booster, socialist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, campaigned alongside him across Michigan, and spent last fall fending off accusations that he abuses his dog with a shock collar.
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