The most convenient lessons to learn are the ones learned from someone else’s mistake.
That is why we should take the opportunity to learn from the recent riots in the United Kingdom. The erosion of society in the UK has caused a sense of lawlessness to become rampant among the youth in that country. The general attitude among England of late has been that there is no absolute truth. With truth being relative there can be no justice. If there is no truth, then no one can claim that these rioters are wrong to destroy and steal other people’s property. These rioters are approaching this with a deluded sense of entitlement.
These problems can be traced to the breakdown of British society. Over the years, society in the UK has steadily been eroding. This is not by accident, certain groups within the UK, including the Fabian Socialists, have been tirelessly laboring to tear it down. They know what many conservatives do not; that the more society is eroded, the more powerful a government can become.
Here in America, the focus is on the economy. What conservatives must understand is that the economy is directly tied to what happens in society. For years now, some libertarian Republicans have been deceitfully playing on words and suggesting that social conservatives are somehow related to socialists, the term “big government Republican” has in the minds of some become a synonymous term with social conservatism. However, this charge is not fair, although it is possible for a social conservative to also be a “big government” Republican, to be maligned as such for supporting policies that protect society from erosion is ridiculous. In fact, the social policies in the UK have been especially libertine, and government has increased while the youth have embraced lawlessness.
The UK is struggling from the consequences of bad social policy, those of us in the United States would do well to learn from their mistakes.
