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Originally Posted by timej31

Of course they do. They've chosen this and it isn't ever coming back while there is a civilized government in place.

Lately there seems to be mobs of people not getting along well and I am worried that this could spiral out of the governments control. Then when that happens what then?

Hungry people don't make wise decisions.

Fair enough, thank you. From some of the posts in the thread I was beginning to wonder.....

As for the situation getting out of control - I do not think that is likely, provided that the people at large are not armed, which is I imagine the main point of difference between the US and European views.

IMHO, the mobs have been mostly apolitical youths out for some excitement, and judging from how fat some of them looked on the TV pictures they were certainly not hungry. Presumably they got bored waiting for the next CloD patch...

Some combination of carrots and sticks will be applied, mostly without any real belief that anything fundamental will change. The underclass will go back to their ghettos. The middle-class opportunist gansta wannabees will go back to their sociology courses at "university". And the bankers and politicians will go back to fleecing the society they have come to believe does not exist.

O tempora, O mores!

(For non-classicists, this translates roughly as "this tempura is tasty, give me some more", a suitable lament for the failings of a multicultural, materialist nation).