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Nobody wants to get arrested... It would have to get really bad... The last time the U.S. had economic related riots was in 1877... Riots broke out from Pittsburgh to Chicago... When the bankers demonetized Silver in 1873... The economy tanked when they contracted the money supply... Caused a depression in the late 1800's...
Whoa! You say you've lived in the USA for many years but know nothing of the riots that have indeed happened due to these very conditions you mention with almost the identical trigger event of a cop shooting or beating.
You need to google Rodney King and the 6 day LA riot.
My goodness these events have gone on in the U.S. in almost twinned fashion dating well back into the sixties and forward. Some being repetitious enough that they no longer get reported upon.
Just another hot summer evening in Detroit, etc., etc..
To have a twin of what is happening in England we would have to have simultaneous rioting/looting/civil unrest in NYC, LA, D.C., Philly, etc. England does not pre-emptively incarcerate nearly as many of their at risk population as the U.S. 2 million black men don't need jobs because they are behind bars. What if that weren't so... when, and if, America goes up, it will really blaze because till now African American's have disproportionately borne the brunt of economic disenfranchisement. The pain is being spread, and lower middle class white America is still in shock. Once that wears off ... ...
Sure. We have much the same level of entitlement and welfare programs, which generate this lack of respect for other people and their property, that the UK does. The biggest difference...here many potential victims will be armed. A few dead thugs will take the wind out of their sails quickly.
In a post hurricane landscape there are windowless stores begging to be looted and few pople to witness what happens. If I were in one of these places today I don't think I'd loot. But if I were still in my youth, I don't know. Maybe I would. One early morning a few years ago, a vending machine took my last coins without giving me my bag of potato chips. No one was around and I got mad at the machine, kicking the machine's plexiglass front so hard it popped out. I suddenly had access to the machine's contents and once I got over my shock of actually knocking out plexiglass, I took my bag of chips. Nothing else, just the chips I had paid for. Still, I felt bad. I guess I'm not in my youth anymore.
Anyway, for literally thousands of years older generations of a societies have feared that the younger generations are headed in a wayward direction. I think there are written accounts of citizens of Antient Greece fretting over the younger generation and its lack of direction. At the risk of doing the same thing all over again, it seems that it is indeed possible that the youth of England are actually in trouble. For several reasons they have lost touch with right from wrong, or probably more accurately, the willingness to act right and not wrong. Of course it is far from all of the youth. But it is a high enough percentage to cause massive riots. And that's all the percentage needed. The fears of the older generation might have finally been realized.
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