Virtue Signalling is what Democrats are good at

That's "signaling," not "providing concrete benefits to society at large."

 Hoisted from Naked Capitalism's comments section:

Yesterday, I learned that we opened the DNC Summer meeting in Minnesota with a land acknowledgement. That American settlers had stolen the land of the native tribes in Minnesota, the Dakota, who had lived in happy harmony with nature for thousands of years. This was literally the very first thing done at that meeting – almost like an opening prayer or Pledge of Allegiance was done in my youth.

Since I no longer take anything done or said by this party at face value – the lying, dissembling, exaggerating, distorting, virtue-signalling, etc has become too much and affected the lives of so many around me – I did a little research.

The woman chosen to do this land acknowledgement was named Lindy Sowmick. Although she mentioned the Dakota tribe in passing – I did a bit of research and noted that she was from the Chippewa-Saginaw tribe which is basically in Michigan. The way this Chippewa tribe is referred to in some quarters today is the Ojibwe. I learned a lot about the Ojibwe from the website of the actual Minnesota Historical Society –

https://www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/native-americans/ojibwe-people

The Ojibwe were apparently one of the most populous tribes in North America all over the Northeastern Seaboard hundreds and thousands of years before there were any European settlers. Again, this woman, Mrs Sowmick, was a member of a branch of this tribe. I will reprint below the first paragraph of the website from the Minnesota Historical Society –

The ancestors of the Ojibwe lived throughout the northeastern part of North America and along the Atlantic Coast. Due to a combination of prophecies and tribal warfare, around 1,500 years ago the Ojibwe people left their homes along the ocean and began a slow migration westward that lasted for many centuries.

Upon further research on multiple other websites, one learns that the Ojibwe were actually one of the most violent of tribes in North America. They were propelled by some kind of apocalyptic religious animus – described in the website above as “prophecies” – and it was the Ojibwe themselves that drove the Dakota out of their ancestral home and into the Northern Great Plains – centuries and centuries before there ever was a European settler to be seen. This woman, highlighted by the DNC, is actually a member of the actual tribe that displaced the Dakota from Minnesota.

The sad fact for the Democratic Party who continue to make this land acknowledgement an issue is that land displacement, war and forced moving is a part of human history in every corner of this planet. It is in our DNA. Maybe, just maybe, one day we will evolve and not engage in this behavior. But having judgmental and virtue signalling about it centuries after it happened – and then having a member of the perpetrating tribe be the one doing the scolding is the very definition of lunacy.

When the Democrats start paying to attention to real issues affecting real people in this country, this Dem will start paying attention again. Until then – it is a better show than the clowns in the circus. And that is tragic. We really need some kind of counterweight – but that is certainly not to be had with this group.