landlord whipped tenant's bare bottom with belt over late rent

[CincyDem]

52. It's a fractal of our nationalistic worldview.

This is the 1 on 1 version of Bushco opening a can of whupass on Iraq. I'm certainly not supporting defending or rationalizing the behavior with this comparison but at some point, the persistence of watching the country starts to shift the populations mindset.

It screws up the collective moral compass and it eventually starts showing its ugliness in ways like this. Many comment above have rightly said this, in principle, is nothing new. Absolutely right. What's new about it, however, is that the landlord is probably surprised that his F'ed up assertion of power over his tenant is seen as a bad thing.

I'm sure chit like this is happening in a lot of situations and there will be more. Bushco taught many people that extreme over reaction and preemptive strikes are all ok. In that world, it's the great American patriots that seem to believe it is their responsibility to teach us lessons we don't need over wrongs we have not committed by asserting power they should not have.

It's going to take a long time to rebuild big parts of our moral compass.