There were a few miscreants about
They had names like Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde, and John Dillinger. They shot up banks, and since the banks had been foreclosing on peoples homes, they were treated has heroes.
In the Great Depression people lost everything but we didn't have these gangbangers and thugs everywhere.
It's when people get used to sucking on the government tit and it might get taken away, that they lose it and riot. Like in Greece and the rest of Europe. And Wisconsin.
While I agree with your basic point, I have to point out that around about 1934 we saw John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie & Clyde, and the Barker gang. In some cases these folks were seen as heroes because they stole from banks -- and everyone knew that the evil bankers had caused the Great Depression.
Still, I think there was a more generalized respect for law and order in the 1930's. Today, that is all out the window and if things get bad (and I expect them to) then we will see massive crime and violence.
Good clarification.
Absolutely true. But why?
Because by and large, they didn't have "nothing else to lose". They had their families. They had their friends and neighbors. They had God.
Today, after 50 years of purposeful Progressive destruction, an increasing number of Americans have nothing but government as a support system. And they are either learning that government is a poor substitute for the institutions liberals have labored to destroy - or increasingly, they are lashing out at the impotence and emptiness of their lives.