Growing up in crushing poverty is inherently traumatic. Not everyone who's been traumatized goes on to hurt people, but everyone who hurts people has been traumatized. Supporting a status quo which includes an impoverished underclass is supporting widespread crime and violence.
Everything about the US-centralized empire is trauma-creating, from its domestic policy to its foreign policy. It ensures that there will always be more and more criminals to imprison, radicalized extremists to kill, apartheid measures to justify. It self-perpetuates, by design.
And then Hollywood makes movies about the cops arresting the violent offenders, about soldiers stopping the evil terrorists, when really it's just traumatized people acting out the trauma that was inflicted upon them by the very power structure that employs the cops and soldiers.
And those who support this self-perpetuating trauma generating status quo have the gall to call themselves "moderates". "Moderates", from relatively un-traumatizing lives, looking down their noses at the convicts and radicals who only exist because of the trauma they facilitated.
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