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August 30, 2016
John Derbyshire: "Fifty years.... And still they riot."
Because riots work, Derb. They keep the gravy train fueled.No one actually believed all those programs and giveaways were the "right thing to do," nor do they believe it now. Not them, not us. They were, and are, payoffs, the price of peace. As Derb points out, it hasn't worked and it won't work. We've gotten a negative return on half a century of expensive subservience, yet if our attention drifts from their self-inflicted troubles for one waking moment—riots. We're being had. Woodpile Report
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So far it's just been a business negotiation between the vassals and their feudal lords. The vassals want more money. It happens now and again. The mundanes are as of yet mostly onlookers.
The vassals threaten violence. The vassals provide the fulords with the electoral wherewithal for power over the mundanes. The vassals first demonstrate their readiness towards violence. The next level is the limited random visiting of violence upon the mundanes. All mobsters know this, sometimes a corner grocery has to be torched to keep the rest in line and paying.
There is no next business level however. Either the fulords pay up, or the violence against mundanes spirals until the mundanes rise up. And then everybody loses.
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at August 30, 2016 6:06 PM