I hate it when Glenn Beck is right

  Some intrepid journalists have ventured out into the streets of London and captured the whole nightmare on tape. One asks a young woman, "Why are you doing this?" to which she answer, "We're getting our taxes back."
  Here's the video:

  I hate it when Glenn Beck is right. He's so depressing, glum and apocalyptic. Unfortunately he's right about what's happening and has been warning about it.
  In case you didn't think the kind of violence the world is seeing, particularly London, is happening here, just Google flash mobs and see what you'll find. Chicago. Philadelphia. Cleveland. Wisconsin (not counting the union mobs).
  They're everywhere.
  Why is this happening?
  Frank Beckmann on WJR this morning interviewed Mike Freer, a conservative Parliament member from London. You can hear the interview here.
  Freer says not much has been cut yet for the underclass. Many of the people who have been arrested are not lower class: a youth worker, an Amy recruit. Freer says it's just thuggery."We're seeing a generation who feel they have the right to the plasma tv without working for it...or the responsibility that goes with those rights."
  It's a matter of the government giving more, promising more, even as the money dries up for being able to provide those services and "rights."
  As taxes increase on hard working families, people are losing confidence and feeling like they can take what they what.
  Freer says the cuts that have been made (which is to roll back spending to 4 years ago) haven't really bitten yet. Health care, generous unemployment. 60% of the people who claim they can't work because of health issues and receive disability have been forced to get assessments and have been ruled ineligible.
  There is no limit to unemployment. Ad infinitum unemployment. Ad infinitum disability. The changes include telling people if they turn down work they are offered they lose their benefits.
  In the following video, two young women who are drinking "free wine" explain, giggling, that the rioting is "the government's fault, showing the police we can do what we want. It's the rich people. We're just showing the rich people we can do what we want."
  Robyn of Berkeley (yes, THAT Berkeley) at American Thinker is a reformed liberal. She makes an interesting point in differentiating between the classic liberal and the leftist/progressive who perpetrates these kinds of acts.
  Reading her narrative, I realize I have been unfair to liberals. My liberal friends are fine, principled people who might argue political points, but who truly want the best for people.
  Here's the difference between liberals and progressives, as Robyn states it:

While many conservatives merge liberalism and leftism, there are huge differences between the two camps.  Liberals, like Gail, want a kinder and gentler America.  They choose safe, suburban suburbs, with schools that (as of yet) do not radicalize their children.  While it's the rare liberal who would display a flag on July 4, he still cares about this country, supports Israel, and is wary of radical Islam. The progressive/leftists are an entirely different species entirely; they do not love this country or Israel.   

In fact, the far left would like nothing better than to knock the US and Israel down from their high horses.Leftists sympathize with the "victims" of the United States, not those Americans who are brutalized by thugs or terrorists.  The left practices third-worldism,  the belief that the paths of Chavez and Lenin are vastly superior to our own Founding Fathers.  

Having become smitten by the renegade image of Che Guevara, they fashion themselves as post-modern revolutionaries, who set out, with a missionary zeal, to change the world. Consequently, leftists turn a blind eye to the savagery of the third world, e.g. the burqua or beheadings. 

Progressives justify the brutality of gang violence and perhaps engage in mob behavior themselves.  While they label conservatives as reactionary, leftists are, in truth, the true reactionaries, reacting against Mommy, Daddy, God, and country.

   The entire article is well worth reading, but she identifies the problems this way, bonding the new wilding attitude with the election of Obama and the sense of entitlement and class warfare that is repeated over and over from this administration:

 I myself voted for Hillary until the ascent of Obama snapped me out of my lifetime progressive trance.  I saw that something was terribly wrong, that people were acting crazy around him.  The multitudes were entranced, hypnotized, in a cult-like way.  Even more disturbingly, the more emotionally unstable supporters were behaving violently towards any and all opponents.  

And Obama, taking in the whole scene, said nothing.The smearing of the opposition, the misogyny directed at Hillary and Sarah, the cloud of aggression that followed Obama around, like the grime that trailed after the cartoon character Pigpen, felt frightening to me, menacing, and creepy. 

It finally dawned on me that should Obama be elected, the dark and uncivilized behavior that I see in Berkeley would spread and multiply and envelope the entire country.   

  It is difficult to understand where this will lead. A good beginning for defeating it just happened in Wisconsin and recently in Ohio.
  Government cannot fill the spiritual void these people suffer. Government cannot build incentive into character. Government cannot give everyone a house, a tv, a car and a 6 figure income.
  Obama has encouraged all these things, particularly dependence on a monolithic system that has no human emotions and sees people as pieces of paper.
  So the world burns. 
  And Obama goes on another vacation. 
  In yet another sympathetic portrayal of the hardships the 50 year old president has endured during his vacations, the AFP says this:

Obama is enduring one of the most testing periods of his presidency, and facing a volley of unusually harsh media criticism after many commentators said he came off second best in a debt showdown withRepublicans.

  We'll see if the optics get too much to bear. In any event, you can bet Air Force One will be flying Michelle there.