My wife has a cousin who lives in Vancouver Washington (which is just north of Portland Oregon) and she said every night there are sirens and gunshots up there. One day she was on the freeway going into Portland and got turned around because there was a mob of people pulling people out of there cars and beating the crap out of them and then setting their cars on fire. She said these mobs were also going into people's houses and dragging people out of their houses into the middle of the street, beating the crap out of them and stealing their belongings. She said it's complete chaos! She also mentioned that she went to the bank the other day and while at the ATM, she saw a man standing on his truck shooting up a Dollar General and almost hit a kid and a local bar near her was also shot up while people who were in the bar came out running for cover. She said the governor and the mayor there are doing nothing about it! Shame on them! That is an absolute disgrace! This is not a protest. That is lawlessness!
Haha. You just described the surroundings of my neighborhood in Chicago from 15 years ago. I lived back then right next to two of the top 10 most dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago (including the one known as Humboldt Park). One of my coworkers at the time who lived in Humboldt Park got mugged and lost his shiny iPhone.
Anyways, the point I'm trying to make is that everything happening today is nothing new, yet just what common criminals, thieves, thugs, and crooks do and did back in the day. Nothing special. These people are simply sealing their place in Hell.
Although some might call this democracy, I think it's very sad if that's their version of democracy. I'd rather have a good leader shouting orders at me everyday than have democracy like that. I think those people want democracy not to ensure good for everyone as per the spirit of democracy, yet to appease their own personal pride by getting a feeling of domination over others.
In Chicago companies that I've worked at in the past, bosses allowed voting often on subjective work matters to ensure buy-in from everyone. We often had healthy discussions and reached consensus with beneficial compromises. In any case, none of the options presented for voting were truly bad to begin with. That's what made voting very safe. Democracy at work rested on the idea of the common good for everyone regardless of which way voting went. In fact, everyone eventually made a habit out of having patient respectful discussions (instead of confrontational arguments) and reaching for consensus instead of simply a majority vote win. That yielded much more strongly bonded teams that did a lot better jobs for customers. Customers loved that they could trust us and depend on us as we always aimed to meet their real needs and goals instead of blindly doing what they said they wanted.
Godspeed.
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