Some things as to why shit is happening in American cities

[Moostache]

14. Its about damn time...

The fact is the system has been co-opted to the breaking point. There are no negotiations planned. There are no plans to seek a peaceful resolution. The rich have determined that they are beyond reach and that the carnage will somehow be contained to the cities and minorities. They could not be more wrong.

The first stirrings were years ago in Seattle WTO...before that really.
In-between there was the marginalization and punch the hippie politics.
Then the economy imploded.
Then Occupy.
Then Ferguson.
Now Baltimore.

Each time this gets more violent, more reactionary, more incendiary.
Each time the navel gazing of the press stays stuck on burning cars and buildings and misses the burning passion of the oppressed beginning to lash out as the number of things to lose for them dwindles by the day.

The fire is coming. It can't be put out. It can't be contained. It can't be stopped once it gets out of control.
The powers that be are terrified of what comes next. Its not peaceful protests and marches. It is pitchforks and torches.

They are calling out their attack dogs and militarized police more and more. It reminds me of Deep Water Horizon and the fruitless deploying of boom to "stop" the spread of the spill.

They are going to learn a painful lesson, again. The immutable truth about life is simply this - life is a series of lessons for people, for countries, for groups, for individuals; and the lessons will continue until they are learned. You can hide, you can pretend, but you cannot escape the lessons, and several large ones loom.

Nature does not care if you "believe" in it. Whether its something rather obvious like evolution or more slightly nuanced like climate change. Individual belief is not required and the lesson is clear - outstrip the resources or damage the system too far for recovery and there will be consequences.

Economics is another. Banks, when given too much power - whether in the 1870's, the 1930's or the 2000's through the present - will concentrate wealth, crush equality and crash the system to the ground as sure as the sun will rise in the East and set in the West. It happens over and over and over and is still happening now. Another lesson that cannot be changed no matter how much money is thrown at it to obfuscate and deceive.

Finally, there is the over-reliance on the military and force as the only solution; the one we seem to have forgotten from Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan. The lesson that tells us, you cannot impose order at the point of a gun unless you are willing to kill millions in the process.

It is armed insurgents and guerrilla warfare. Its what we have been watching on our TVs for a decade plus in countries our "leaders" destroyed and invaded or invaded and destroyed...which ever way you choose to see it. IEDs and small arms are a little beneath the armaments of the gangs and disaffected here in the good ole US of A. There will be far worse than roadside bombs and ambushes when the shooting starts for real.

There will be blood in the streets, so much it will shock the soul and benumb the senses beyond anything we think we are prepared to witness.

This is the last chance of the 1% to bring to heel the 0.01% and save themselves in the process. If you are in the kitchen and see the pot about to boil over, you get it OFF the heat. Look around at the common thread in the unrest and conflict of the recent past - overzealous, often racist police firing on and killing the unarmed, the economic disparities and flat out despair. THAT is the heat that is bringing the melting pot to a boil and without a reduction in the heat - severe AND sustained - the choice is clear.

Get the pot of the burner or lose the meal, and still spend 10X longer cleaning up the mess in the end.

Or maybe the "plan" is to just burn the kitchen to the ground and sacrifice everyone in it in the process...