What's the underlying cause of riots?

From the always-delightful ... oh, why not try guessing?

Why were young people in Britain tearing apart their cities, burning down businesses and stealing electronics and designer clothes? Because the cops shot someone? Please.

What has angered rioters in Greece, Paris and Vancouver? Are they jobless? Government benefits being cut? Their hockey team lost? They might as well destroy police cars because they're upset about rainy days.

Why were public sector union workers in Wisconsin busting up the capitol and physically attacking Republican legislators? MSNBC's Ed Schultz says it was because Republicans were trying to take away the people's "civil rights."

Why were black and Hispanic gang members looting after the Rodney King verdict? An L.A. policeman recently told me that the gang members he arrested in the riots said they didn't know or care about Rodney King.

Why were masked hoodlums smashing Starbucks windows in Seattle a decade ago when some bankers came to town? They're against the "global economy"? What does that even mean?

Mobs of "Liberals" form because libs love mobs--because rioting and anarchy is their path to power.

Making sound proposals based on facts and logic is not their strong suit. Rather, their specialty is making impossible promises to the easily=fooled. For more on this, see the 2012 Democratic Platform.

For example, right now Democratic Party leaders are promising to "save" Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in their present form. But according to Obama's Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, in less than 10 years spending on those three entitlement programs alone, plus servicing the national debt, will consume 92 cents of every dollar in the federal budget.

So by promising they can save SS in their present form--that is, without major changes--the Democrats are brazenly lying to voters. It's a mathematical impossibility for these programs to continue without major reform now. Absent major changes, they'll be completely bankrupt later -- and not very much later.

But Democrats' real achievement has been in destroying the family, and thereby creating an endless supply of potential rioters.

When blacks were only four generations out of slavery, their illegitimacy rate was about 23 percent (lower than the white illegitimacy rate is now). Then Democrats decided to help them! Today--just two generations since LBJ's Great Society programs began--the black illegitimacy rate has tripled to 72 percent.

Meanwhile, the white illegitimacy rate has jumped seven-fold, from 4 percent to 29 percent.

Instead of a "War on Poverty" it should have been called a "War on the Family."

The vast and permanent underclass created by the welfare state is a actually a great success for the Democratic Party, since it creates a loyal constituency of deadbeats who automatically vote Democrat in order to keep their "free" (i.e. taxpayer-funded) benefits flowing.

As long as Democrats are serving their principal constituency -- recipients of taxpayer money--they don't seem to be much concerned about what happens to the rest of society.

Instead they champion any mob that will increase their political power. Liberals promote welfare dependency, class warfare, endless government programs staffed with public sector workers, street protests, coddling criminals and physical attacks on their ideological opponents.

And then congratulate themselves on creating a new cadre of reliably Democratic voters.