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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

It's all pointless distraction though, like I said earlier in the thread. Like building a town on a floodplain, seeing it destroyed by floods, and simply blaming the rain.

The people out being violent are not thinkers. They're just angry, reactive mobs. You might as well blame a tornado or an earthquake. There are far more sinister forces at work -- the people who haven't lifted a finger but are creating the social environment that leads to unrest. Your Farages, your Tommy Robbos, the people who ignored grooming gangs, various people in power and government, now and over the course of many years.

I know people are big on individual responsibility. I just don't have that faith in most of any population. "A person is smart. People are dumb."

Hive minds and mob mentality are a powerful and scary thing.

You are right it all you say, that said as a Minister she should have been asking where the police were given there was information the Far Right were going to turn up, not condone it including a gun imitating a guy shooting at the camera, more fuel to the fire I am afraid, you actually begin to wonder what is going on when the people in power seem incapable of dousing the flames but rather adding to them