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In reply to the discussion: A segment of DU is very invested in painting a dystopian picture of the US [View all]F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)And police violence, and state violence. The assault is constant. I hate this constant "war" terminology we use in our everyday language--we are far too comfortable with violence. But this is a war.
Things are relatively small right now. Ferguson was the beginning of another escalation, though. Cracks are beginning to show. People can take so many tiny humiliations, but so much theft of life and limb doesn't leave much to go on. Baltimore was kept quiet by the news. It's everywhere, though. In big, spray-painted graffiti art, too. Prominent places in rather large spaces.
We're not burning our cities down, yet. But Black Lives Matter has raised questions about wealth and inequality that are not going away. We need a total change. One that recognizes the full equality of all people, in all respects. This means schools in minority neighborhoods, money in infrastructure, healthcare with full access to reproductive services, including gender-reassignment therapy, full mental health care and addiction care with the best modern techniques--every level of our society must be changed. Because right now, honestly, we live in a seriously fucked up world.
At least 9 or 10 people I have met in the last 6 months, all fairly normal people, would be okay with a revolution. That's a pretty good chunk of the people I know. Not to mention the surprisingly large numbers of declared leftists, and get this--a recent poll sent to me by my conservative, democratic elite relative showed that almost half.of Americans would elect a socialist. That's nuts. A conservatively biased Gallup poll, by the way.
Let's hope we can change this system fast, or instead of tumbling into the next stage of civilization, we will be crashing to a halt. The world is changing, fast. The faster we change, the less painful it will be.
People like the OP like to ignore all this.