A clash with civilization

Typical of the fixations of the left is to treat symptoms, and concoct strange causes to attribute it to. Today’s BBC Talking Point program is a festival of silliness blaming a nearly non-existent "National Front" while a panelist French MP, Jacques Myard (UMP) said quite clearly that it has to do with a lack of authority, both legal and parental. Some of the calls were so dimwitted, he nearly became irate.

He pointed out that the rioting adults are overwhelmingly employed, that some immigrant areas have higher unemployment without disturbance, and PS run governments (past ones and local ones alike) refused to prosecute endemic car thefts AT ALL which clearly established just how fuzzy the line the law lays down can be, leaving no doubt that crimes preferred by some people (perhaps the first-time voters they're looking for) won’t be punished.

Some of the TP commenters get it, and get it perfectly well:

«France's social and economic problems are too big, too old and too deep to be solved anytime soon. To believe otherwise would be a denial of reality. Possibly in another 50 years the country will have achieved real solutions but by that time it could be too late. »

Boveman, Neuilly-sur-Marne

It might well be a simple problem of a lack of moral fiber which is the most apparent clash of civilizations: between the nominally aware and those stupified by the nanny state:

«What a mess, long lasting damage too a beautiful country especially the businesses/tourism trades. This sort of poverty should of been dealt with years ago, theres no equality at all.»

FRED, blackpool

It's not so much a question of knowing which fork to use at this point, it the habit of using a fork at all.