The 2020 Race Riots

The 2020 race riots will probably not accomplish much of anything, but they do signify the accelerating devolution of the United States into a North American version of Brazil.

The United States has experienced race riots for decades, and yet little has fundamentally changed. Why? Because things cannot change. African Americans are trapped in their low socioeconomic status by forces that neither they nor white people have much control over. These are deep forces involving population genetics and resulting cycles of cultural dysfunction.

Perhaps something could be done, but it would involve abandoning America's post-1960s worldview. Is that going to happen? Probably not on a national level while the United States remains a global superpower, and that is not going to change for the foreseeable future. The US experienced far worse racial unrest during the 1960s, and it has dominated the world ever since.

America is, however, rapidly changing. Its demographic profile is becoming more like that of Brazil, and thus American society and culture is looking more and more like Brazil's.

Our elites are almost certainly aware of this. Top policy shapers in American think tanks and influential institutions must know the data and inconvenient truths. Their calculation, however, is that summer rioting is an acceptable cost to maintain a growing number of consumers and keep labor costs competitive. This will become increasingly important as America's main geopolitical rival, China, has seen its labor force shrink since 2016. China's one child policy has led to what some analysts have called a "demographic apocalypse" in the rapidly aging middle income country. Seen in the light of a century long geopolitical strategic necessity, the 2020 race riots are barely worth mentioning. They have already been predicted, accepted, and prepared for. They are little more than an annoying soft power liability.

Is it not tragic that George Floyd died? Yes, of course it is, and yet such deaths cannot be much reduced in number. Despite constituting a small fraction of the overall population, black males commit more than half of America's violent crime. Bias inevitably develops when police officers are forced into negative encounters with this group on a daily basis. If bias did not develop in such circumstances, it would signal a malfunction in the human brain's subconscious programming towards pattern recognition. The oft sited solution to this problem is recruiting more black police officers, and yet there are not enough who qualify, and those who do have demonstrated equal or greater levels of brutality against their racial kin than white officers.

Man cannot fix what God has "broken." More truthfully, man cannot create an equality God never intended to exist.

The most that can be said for the 2020 riots is that they were likely inevitable given America's current unemployment rate, and at least America's young people still have enough virility to take to the streets and destroy things. That's more than can be said for China's young people, many of whom must suffer in silence as they jettison old dreams. There is something raw and real in a riot, and at least Americans still have the nerve to burn.