My first thought is that our Empire is following the course of the Roman Empire, which experienced riots from the plebeians or plebes. Coriolanus opens with such a riot, which is a riot for food. Today there are food stamps, so the riots are for other reasons or desires.
“Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons.”
“1 Cit. We are accounted poor citizens; the patricians good. What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they would yield us but the superfluity, while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear: the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is an inventory to particularize their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them. –Let us revenge this with our pikes ere we become rakes; for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.”
My second thought is that the driving force in these riots is Black teenagers, but the fake news media are not reporting this. There is some confirmation from other sources. Also, this is a repeat performance from a year ago.
2:29 pm on December 28, 2016
