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In reply to the discussion: I have to fucking get this off my chest. [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)as they are now.
But I remember riots in the '60s, and there will be riots again if severe austerity measures become the rule.
It's not conjecture, it's just that there is so much poverty, so many people working their asses off and getting behind even as they do.
There are more guns out there.
There is more fear and paranoia out there. Stoked.
There are so many poor people incarcerated.
When the media told you that Ferguson issued 23,000 warrants for 21,000 people - 3 warrants for every household - they were trying to slap you in the face with the fact that poor people are being sucked up - just like in a vacuum - to feed the for-profit justice systems in place in towns like Fergusons.
And it is heartbreaking that more Centrist dems don't give five fucks.
Because we are creating an underclass of people we warehouse in filthy cells, not intent on rehabilitation to help them function in society, but intent on providing job security and profit.
It's adding another heavy burden on families for court fees, lawyers, probation fees, jail fees, phone calls and gas for visits so that children can see their fathers and mothers, not to mention the loss of breadwinners, their taxes and presence in their families' lives
There is so much brewing beneath the gentle facade, I'm afraid.
I won't be rioting, too old. But if I were younger it would be hard to not just give up.
That's what I see with my eyes, but I actually talk to poor people.
So scary, that.