Preserving Disorder

You know, when I read about this Pew study, characterized as “As New Dangers Loom, More Think the U.S. Does ‘Too Little’ to Solve World Problems”, it reminded me of the late Mayor Daley’s response to a newspaper reporter following the civil disorder that accompanied the Democratic Convention of 1968 and claims that it was “a police riot”, to the effect that

The Chicago Police were not there to create disorder. The Chicago Police were there to preserve disorder

We’re preserving the world’s problems. That is the nature of a status quo-ist country.

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