The commercial element of downtown San Francisco is throwing in the towel and leaving because of urban lawlessness. Every major city in the US has become a battleground involving its youth element and authority. Nocturnal youth violence is sweeping urban France, the UK and other European cities. The normal anarchy and violence of African and South American cities is trending upward.
This article takes to task France's Macron for blaming riots in Paris on social media and lack of parental responsibility. Well, sure, there were riots in the pre-digital, pre-smart phone era but it's obvious that better communication has increased the intensity of social rebellion. That's simply tactics, however. There's a bigger picture.
More apropos to the situation is this offering by "eugyppius". His analysis includes this:
It’s no surprise to find American soft power behind some of these episodes, but US influence is only one factor here. The postwar international order, founded around organisations like the United Nations and the European Union, bears the explicit mandate of counteracting nationalist politics, which are regarded as the root cause of the great world wars. Especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union, this globalist ethos has given rise to a whole world of densely interrelated political parties, NGOs and philanthropists, while also fostering an increasingly uniform and inward-looking elite political culture. These new elites hope to find in imported minorities a basis of popular support for globalism at home and a counterweight to the dreaded nativist right. Most major leftist and Green parties are mere instruments and expressions of this culture, as is any demonstration that is not immediately and brutally repressed.
This is about power and they don’t care. They’ll vaccinate billions and take years of heightened mortality in stride. They’ll burn whole cities to the ground if they have to.
The fingerprints of the new elites are all over the muddy banks of the Rio Grande.
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