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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe social contract we all have made with one another was broken
by the people with the power and responsibility to enforce and provide justice.
I ask if laws do not apply to some then what laws apply to others.
This is a breakdown of society created by injustice. I suppose it is a natural effect.
That doesnt make rioting and looting right. But the Original injustice is the cause of it all.
EarlG
(21,949 posts)Bad people in positions of power werent satisfied with just getting away with shit, they had to wave it in peoples faces.
White cops calmly murdering black civilians and getting away with it. Trump smugly flaunting his lack of accountability for fraudulent criminal bullshit from fake charities to shaking down foreign countries to rape, and his open and proud racism.
All those norms that have been broken; and now the people have decided they might as well break the norm of not going out into the streets and fucking shit up.
boston bean
(36,221 posts)Sad, and infuriating truths.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)The complete impunity of favored classes and people has been shocking and certainly plays a part in this mess.
niyad
(113,329 posts)Karadeniz
(22,528 posts)boston bean
(36,221 posts)H2O Man
(73,558 posts)The thin veneer of civilization has become tattered in the US.