New normal
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They are but, recall that there are levels of comfort.
Those living on gibs riot instantly if the spigot is turned off because they have no margin for survival.
If they screw the pooch and gibs riots start you can expect others to join in. Once comfort is stripped away your average person quickly becomes violent.
Except they weren't. The reason the NYT originally estimated the deaths in concentration camps as 4-6 million is they really didn't know. There were no detailed censuses and records were sparse.
It worked out to "A lot" died, but we don't know how many precisely. That's the gap in the wall that allows skeptics to see conspiracy.
If you make a new party the crooks will just sign up. Assuming it got off the ground. Accountability would keep politicians more honest. We don't have any of that now.