The Rebellion of America's New Underclass - The American Mind

The Rebellion of America's New Underclass - The American Mind
"...But in the longer run, the underlying causes of our growing civic breakdown go beyond the brutal police killing of George Floyd.
Particularly in our core cities, our dysfunction is a result of our increasingly large, and increasingly multi-racial, class of neo-serfs.
Like its Medieval counterpart, today’s serf class consists of the permanently marginalized—like the peasants of feudal times, these people are unlikely to move to a higher station.
This does not only apply to the residents of our ghettos and barrios. 
Many of our young people, white and otherwise, appear to have little or no hope of attaining the usual milestones of entry into the middle class—gaining a useful and marketable skill, starting a small business, or buying a home or other property.
...This trend has been made worse by the lockdowns surrounding the pandemic.
Almost 40% of those Americans making under $40,000 a year have lost their jobs.
...Particularly telling has been the role played by predominately white radicals—whom Mike Lind hilariously labels “riot ninjas.”
Although often emerging from largely privileged backgrounds, radicals—whether part of anti-fa or just freelance—can be seen as putting into action the political indoctrination they imbibed in college and, increasingly, even earlier. 
The agenda of the new activists is nothing less than a total assault on the bourgeoisie.
Protest leaders, such as Black Lives Matter-LA’s Melina Abdulla, believe that “the rebellion” must extend into upscale urban areas...
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