Why Don’t Americans Care More About Rising Disorder?

City Journal ^ | 18 Jul, 2025 | Daniel Di Martino

[Rocco DiPippo]

. . . But only if their skin color isn’t white.

[blackdog]

Because the ruling power class has decided that open prisons are the same as open borders. The ruling class lives inside a secure prison and tossed the criminals out here with the deplorable Walmart stinking masses.

Guarded, walled, gated, and secure buildings, with their fellow elites, while we have ANTIFA, BLM, and 50,000 NGO-NFP rent-a-mobs to deal with, zero bail initiatives, defund the police consequences, open borders as a relief valve for third world country criminals, psychiatric nut-jobs, and covert terrorists to mingle with.

Then the media and news organizations tell you that's your burden and should be proud of it. All the while they are burning the place down to make housing for the "problem people" and make you pay for it all.

[Brian Griffin]

WIKI

A cangue (/kæŋ/ KANG), in Chinese referred to as a jia or tcha (Chinese: 枷) is a device that was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in East Asia and some other parts of Southeast Asia until the early years of the twentieth century.

Frequently translated as pillory, it was similar to that European punishment except that the movement of the prisoner's hands was not as rigorously restricted and that the board of the cangue was not fixed to a base and had to be carried around by the prisoner.

Although there are many different forms, a typical cangue would consist of a large, heavy flat board with a hole in the center large enough for a person's neck. The board consisted of two pieces. These pieces were closed around a prisoner's neck, and then fastened shut along the edges by locks or hinges. The opening in the center was large enough for the prisoner to breathe and eat, but not large enough for a head to slip through. The prisoner was confined in the cangue for a period of time as a punishment. The size and especially weight were varied as a measure of severity of the punishment.

[Jamestown1630]

I think the author means why don’t more Americans care.

Those of us who do care, care plenty.

[tumblindice]

Look at AOC’s district for an exemplar of progressive leadership.
Coming soon to all of NYC.

[virgil]

Yes, they want to let the whole world in and give them social benefits paid for by US taxpayers. It’s bankrupting us, straining our resources and is not sustainable. If you come here, you better be able to provide for yourself, practice the local manners, be on your best behavior, and bring something to America besides sh—. A lot of people just can’t do that. There no reason we have take in the world’s trash. That’s just words on a statue in NY harbor that are being used against us. They like saying “things change”. Well, this isn’t 1900 anymore.

[GOPJ]

It isn’t wealth alone that keeps cities livable. It’s culture: the rule of law, cleanliness, safety, and a shared civic compact. When residents uphold these norms, urban cores thrive as centers of prosperity and genuine diversity. When the compact breaks down, the result is social collapse and segregation.

Statistics show crime is going down in cities where Homan and his team of heroes are removing illegals. There really IS a difference between people who come here legally and people who break in - and the values those two group show makes all the difference. Its the same with an invited guest and a thief... the fact both come into your home does NOT make them the same. Legal immigrants are tell us first and foremost that they respect our laws. BIG DIFFERENCE.

[Brian Griffin]

You have 72 hours to agree to penalty room time by spending your first eight hours of penalty time in one of our penalty rooms, or your case will be handled by the DA and you can face jail.

A penalty time room system eliminates the need to provide a public defender, judge, health care and food to an offender. The offender can keep his/her regular job as well.

A shoplifter might have to spend eight hours plus one hour per ten dollars of goods stolen in program penalty time room within say 30 to 60 days of arrest.

[GOPJ]

It isn’t wealth alone that keeps cities livable. It’s culture: the rule of law, cleanliness, safety, and a shared civic compact. When residents uphold these norms, urban cores thrive as centers of prosperity and genuine diversity. When the compact breaks down, the result is social collapse and segregation.

Statistics show crime is going down in cities where Homan and his team of heroes are removing illegals. There really IS a difference between people who come here legally and people who break in - and the values those two group have show us makes all the difference. Its the same with an invited guest and a thief... the fact both come into your home does NOT make them the same. Legal immigrants are telling us first and foremost that they respect our laws. BIG DIFFERENCE.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Third world? I thought this article was about blacks.

[Jamestown1630]

The author is a conservative who has stated that socialism destroyed his country. I doubt he ‘voted’ for that destruction, as he was only months old when it began.

[GOPJ]

Though an immigrant myself, I’ll admit it: the recent migrant crisis has made these problems worse. Not all immigrants are the same. Before the Biden administration’s border surge, Venezuelans arriving here were mostly middle-class professionals escaping socialist devastation. They saved money, planned their moves carefully, and observed the cultural norms that make living in a First World society possible.. But the recent wave of migrants—most arriving illegally—lacked that same preparation or willingness to assimilate. I’ve seen this difference firsthand in New York City shelters, where groups of young men from Venezuela fight among themselves.

There's a huge differene between people who come here legally and people who don't. Someone hwo 'waits in line' is different than a person who pushes their way to the front. A person invited to your home is different than a thief who breaks in. One causes chaos and the other is welcome. Democrats try to blur the lines because they welcome the evil ones... A dope pusher isn't a pharmacists either... A person who breaks into our country tells us many things about themselves from that choice and most of them are bad.

[jmcenanly]

These days you are likely to get into more trouble for noticing a problem than creating it. Expecting better from one’s neighbors is “White Privilege”

[GMThrust]

“They can’t see the big picture.” Those people, more and more, lack empathy. If it doesn’t affect them directly, like you said, they don’t care-if they did, they would stand up against it, whatever it is. The only way to teach someone how to be empathic towards others, is to introduce them to God. Yes, atheists can be empathetic, they just need to be shown and accept where that comes from. There’s my pitch for God today.

[jmaroneps37]

Maybe it is because our LEOs are handling it and because of that we are able to start to rebuild our lives after Crime Boss Joey’s handlers almost destroyed America.

[bk1000]

We care, but at this stage we can only complain to TPTB who seem disinterested.
Now, declare an open season with no limit and see what happens.

[Flaming Conservative]

Hear hear!

[Brian Griffin]

Perhaps a progressive income tax on lifetime government-sourced income is in order:

First $1 million - 0%
....

Almost every adult would have an incentive to make the private sector functional.

[Big Red Badger]

Heavily Armed?

[HockeyPop]

“The Perils of Designer Tribalism”. Roger Kimball, The New Centurion (2001). Kimball’s essay discusses the west’s emerging love affair with the “noble savage”, third worldism and Pascal Bruckner’s “Tears of the White Man, Compassion As Contempt. https://newcriterion.com/article/the-perils-of-designer-tribalism/