That's the big question, isn't it: Who's going to pay for strong, safe communities when the top 10 per cent is creaming it and the rest are falling behind, both parents working if they can, low birth rate, robots, globalization, cheap labour overseas, increasing costs of looking after you and me. Biblical injunctions of neighbour's keeper, Good Samaritans, eye of the needle won't get us through. (Jesus raging, long black whip cracking, just popped in my head!) Which circles back to members' notions here of social breakdown, public backlash, revolution, and speculation that fear of a vengeful underclass is driving survivalist cults, private militias, guns and ammunition on back order, and America's love of guns. Washington is Nero. Political theatre is comedy. The country, according to US polls, has forgotten how to govern.The looney right blames all of it on a "born-in-Kenya black moron in the White House."



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