Return to barbarity

edited from Mark Lewis in FrontPageMag.com

Creating a civil society from barbarism is slow and difficult, because the masses must be persuaded that civilized behavior has some advantages for them--a proposition malevolent people intuitively reject.

The decadent, criminal and merely lazy have no wish to abandon those gratifying pursuits.  To a drug addict or mugger, the notion of pursuing excellence and rejecting decadence is, to put it mildly, an unconvincing proposition.

By contrast, returning to barbarism is easy and relatively fast.  We've actually seen examples of this happening in a single generation.  If society stops enforcing laws and removes rewards for excellence, and instead starts rewarding corruption and thuggery, in 20 years or less you're back to the jungle.

When young people start to see that lawless, barbaric behavior is rewarded, undecided bystanders are quickly converted.  Once young men see that such behavior is not only rewarded but praised by the elites for being "brave," "authentic" or a dozen other fawning euphemisms, the floodgates are opened.

Politicians intuitively recognize the opportunity for power in social chaos, so when national, state and community “leaders” (politicians) encourage such conduct--which they do because —and when one’s peers and associates actively engage in such behavior, even more "activists" jump on the trend.  

The Democratic Party and American media seem to be totally supportive of this trend.  Look at the exact quotes by Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Ayana Presley and other Democrat pols during the 2020 riots.  They all encouraged the rioters, telling them they were doing the right thing.  Can anyone be surprised that today--over three years later--we see an epidemic of daylight smash-and-grab robberies of high-end stores?

Biden and the Democrats see votes and power in America’s descent into lawlessness.  They not only excuse it and praise it, they are welcoming it into the country in massive numbers of illegal aliens via the open southern border who can be expected to join the lawlessness (since they already showed their disregard for U.S. law).

When one removes the will to be civilized from citizens, what remains is violent and barbaric.  The animal.  The jungle.  Communism.  Chicago.  San Francisco.

Our inner cities are descending into lawlessness.  In every case, Democrat political "leaders" tolerate that rather than angering the thugs by removing the thugs from the planet.  

But don't worry, citizen: Dis will end well.  Reeeally!  Trust your Democrat leaders!