"Individual goodness is not enough. You also need a societal framework that encourages good behavior and constrains and punishes bad behavior."

Bookworm writes in part,

...Lately, the news is filled with stories of mobs attacking drivers in the cars. The mobs block roads — often with approval from Democrat mayors — and any drivers unlucky enough to get caught are at serious risk of getting dragged out of their cars and beaten, robbed, or killed. Up until recently, Americans understood that this behavior was in the more dangerous parts of third world countries, not in their own towns and cities. This change has happened over the course of six weeks.

...People have to be taught to be good. Every parent knows that this is hard, hard work. Children may be loving but they’re not good. With a child, entropy into bad behavior is a daily battle. You must constantly teach them moral values, kindness, self-control. You must be ever vigilant to catch them being good (a central tenet of successful parenting) and to correct them when they’re not good.

...Individual goodness is not enough. You also need a societal framework that encourages good behavior and constrains and punishes bad behavior. A good government creates conditions for liberty, a good society enables morality (the Bible is a good place to start), and a good local government polices bad behavior. When any one of these things breaks down, unless you have a citizenry that is 100% moral, the predators and grifters will emerge and take over. That’s what’s happening in places that take seriously the Marxist demand that America’s cities defund the police.

Further, as the title of this post says, that slide into degradation is fast. You need to stop it instantly or you’re going to discover that it takes an enormous effort to pull out of that abyss — and that many lives will be lost or destroyed along the way.

Right now, the only thing between America and the abyss is an overwhelming victory for Donald Trump and the Republicans. If Biden is elected, the Marxists behind Black Lives Matter, Defund the Police, the de-incarceration of prisons, the end of bail, and every other entropy causing initiative will be in the driver’s seat in America. People will be amazed, in a terrible way, about how fast the road is to becoming the Mogadishu of the northern hemisphere. The end will come only when true totalitarianism appears on the scene because the strength of totalitarianism is the only thing that will stop the violence — and so the American people, ultimately, will embrace the tyrant that comes to claim them.

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