www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/how_do_we_explain_the_many_thousands_of_americans_who_believe_they_are_entitled_to_steal_.html
For days now, since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Americans have seen riots take over many of our big cities. Countless properties have been vandalized and businesses have been looted and torched — damage that only hurt the neighborhoods of the rioters. But the most disturbing revelation of these clearly organized riots throughout the country has been seeing the thousands of people in all the affected cities who feel they have a right to steal that which does not belong to them. Night after night, we have watched thieving thugs break windows of small and large businesses, charge into them, and run out with as much merchandise as they can carry. They stuff their booty into large SUVs, many of which have the license plates removed. They are wearing masks so do not fear facial recognition software.
These riots seem to prove that, despite our protestations to the contrary, we do live in something of a third-world nation. When that many people in as many cities that are under siege right now feel no allegiance to the law, to their families, to their neighbors, to civil society, we are indeed a nation in need of a reboot. Fifty-plus years of the left’s smearing of American values, their opposition to the nuclear family, the promotion of the idea that out-of-wedlock births are just another lifestyle choice have, as we see now, made for a population sullied by the acceptance of abject criminality. That is what we are all seeing on our TV screens. This is not about race; it is all about respect or the lack of it and values.
When the young people we saw gleefully run from breached businesses with their hands full of stolen goods, do they take them home to their parents? Are those parents horrified by their children’s stealing, or do they congratulate them? How is it that these thousands of Americans are so comfortable taking what is not theirs? Do they go home and brag that they set some building on fire or that they torched a police car? It is very likely that they are proud of themselves. The media certainly support them, seem to give them permission.