Anyway, I used to read James Lileks a lot when he was writing about current events, but his fans got angry with him for not being liberal so then he switched to focusing on vintage matchstick covers, and I lost interest.
Anyway, he writes for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, so I checked to see if he was swriting about the riots. Yep.
Read him, he's good.
http://lileks.com/bleats/archive/20/0520/052920.html
He noticed many looters were white and had on "Bernie" shirts, and were writing Marx quotes on walls.
They won’t win, but they can sow the despair that grows again next season. The weeds will be inedible, and the people who starve will ask for bread. They will be told to steal it, as this is now the moral thing to do.
It's always odd how the people who preach destruction are assumed to have skills in constructing the replacement, as if the fervent desire to tear things down is just one element of an endlessly kaleidoscopic intellect that apprehends what is to be done, and precisely how to do it.
But the bread runs out. What then? Ah, look over there: another remnant of the old, cursed order. Burn it, and we will be free. Not from want, not from the rule of others, but at least free from the old ways and the whispering voice of one's conscience. There is a new, louder voice in your ear now, and it approves of all that you do.
Until, of course, it doesn't.