Are We Next?

You probably remember the rioting in England last summer when lots of stores were looted and a number of buildings burned to the ground. At that time, my son-in-law sent me a think piece from the London Daily Mail and then asked: are we next? The answer now appears to be "yes" and for the same reasons.

I posted yesterday that the only prevailing ethos of these "protesters" is "Gimme!" The same was true of the English mob, only they went out and simply took for themselves. The article closes with two paragraphs that apply equally well to the American mob in New York and other cities:

"They are an absolute deadweight upon society, because they contribute nothing yet cost the taxpayer billions. Liberal opinion holds they are victims, because society has failed to provide them with opportunities to develop their potential.

Most of us would say this is nonsense. Rather, they are victims of a perverted social ethos, which elevates personal freedom to an absolute, and denies the underclass the discipline — tough love — which alone might enable some of its members to escape from the swamp of dependency in which they live."

England is much further along the road than the U.S. is in becoming the Great Nanny State, but the impulses are definitely on our shores. Not surprisingly, when you spoil children you often get brats. When a lot of brats of whatever age don't get their way, you get a mob. And when you get a mob, there is no telling what you will get next. England had a sobering demonstration of what can happen last summer and there is a good chance that we are next. I am praying for bad weather.

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2024284/UK-riots-2011-Liberal-dogma-spawned-generation-brutalised-youths.html#ixzz1aOFM5EM3

(Tip o' the hat to Glenn Geisendorfer)