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In reply to the discussion: So many people are upset about property damage... [View all]Crunchy Frog
(28,216 posts)and the looting in the States is a result of "pent-up feelings" of oppression and it will subside as citizens adjust to life without Donald Trump come the next election.
The looting is not as bad as some television and newspaper reports have indicated and there is no major crisis in D.C, our capital city, which we all know tonight lacks a central governing authority... (Trumps in a bunker). The looting, is "part of the price" for what the we should be calling the liberation of our Country.
Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here."
In fact it's not uncommon for countries that experience significant social upheaval. "Stuff happens," "This is a transition period between elections and what we hope will be a much more peaceful time," and that's all it is.
I'm irritated by questions about the looting, and I assert that repeated images of U.S. citizens ransacking buildings represents "a fundamental misunderstanding" of what is happening in our cities across the country. "Very often the pictures are pictures of people going into the symbols of the current regime, into the rich peoples rodeo drive shops, into the never ending "bailed out" Wall Street establishments, and into the places that have been part of that repression,"
And while no one condones looting, on the other hand one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who've had members of their family killed by that regime, for them to be taking their feelings out on that regime.