We've spent millenia building civilization, and societies within that civilization. We agree on a set of rules for living together; the church takes those rules and incorporates them into a doctrine of faith and beats it over everyone's head. Okay, I don't like that part... but we have, since forever, agreed some rules are paramount in building a civilization. When those rules are agreed to and acted in deference to, everyone flourishes. When those rules are broken, that's when you had to have crime and punishment become part of civilization.
trump (and especially Miller and Bannon) are intent on tearing down civilizations. They don't want people working in cooperation with each other. They want people working for themselves against everybody else. And if the ultimate competition of life can't be accomplished by someone? Then they die. Social and actual Darwinism. Tear down everything; don't bother trying to replace it, it's not worth it. The problem WE have is that the "punishment" aspect of crime and punishment fell down on the job... thank you, Garland. And, after arming every person in the U.S. many times over, they're hoping for a full scale killing field. There are holes in their thinking tho... who's going to pick their crops? Who's going to cook their food? I mean... look at Bannon. Already there's no one to wash his clothes!
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