Maggie's Farm

Wakanda, I mean South Africa is the future for a dozen or more major U.S. cities. Arguably it is already happening in Chicago. I think education is a factor. I mean that educated people at the least know of and understand that society is based on some specific moral norms. But also education at home. My mother made me set the table and instructed me on where the knife, fork and spoon went, where the napkin, water glass and coffee cup went. No big deal. It was just a small part of the overall picture that there was an organized society with rules and traditions and there was an expectation that we children abide by these rules and honor the traditions. Yes as a child I did things that were wrong nut I feared that my parents would find out and that fear was based on the knowledge I garnered over the years I was growing up that things were expected of me. The guilt I felt in breaking the rules literally prevented me from breaking them again. I couldn't explain it at the time but it was real and it worked. Today at 80 I still say "please" when I ask for something in a store or restaurant and I still say thank you when I get it or get service. It is automatic. I don't mean to say that simply doing that makes me a nice person but rather that I do it without think and would feel awkward not doing it means that at the least I was raised properly. Do you think the thugs in Wakanda, I mean South Africa, or Chicago, say please and thank you in stores and restaurants? Do you think their mothers and fathers raised them right? Do you think their mothers and fathers even know what "raising them right" means?

The Real Roots of the 2008 Financial Crisis
https://directorblue.substack.com/p/the-real-roots-of-the-financial-crisis

Just in case you don't have time to read it the answer was Liberal Democrats.