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In reply to the discussion: 300+ teens attack pedestrians on Chicago's Magnificent mile. 28 arrested [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)each day. Remember the French? Those 'goons' eventually had enough and went about murdering everyone who they saw as the reason for their misery. The whole society broke down. THAT is what happens when inequality reaches the levels we are fast approaching.
And your solution is more violence.
Like it or not, it is a fact of life that when people have nothing to lose, when a society becomes so divided so unequally between the rich and the poor and the middle class is slowly disappearing, crime will increase.
The solution is to start creating a society that provides opportunities for all Americans, to provide jobs and education and to close down some of our prisons and build schools, to work to end violence as a policy, stop the illegal wars and spend that money on health care, on drug rehab which works far better than jail etc.
It's not a mystery why we have so many young people with no hope. We have mothers forced out of their homes to get to less than minimum wage jobs because we would rather give Welfare to the Wealthy than provide safe homes for the children of the poor.
I don't see any point in complaining about any of it anymore. We know what is wrong, but even some Democrats now are in favor of the policies that began the downward slide, Reagan policies.