Just Another Idiot Chattering about the London Riots

There are so many things wrong on so many levels, I struggle to get started.
I’m watching the senseless blather, looking at random photos and videos, along with reading from writers who live there. Since I don’t live in the UK, and don’t have friends living near the riots, I can’t really address things from a detailed level. I’ve checked several different viewpoints, because you learn a lot from what reliable biases have to say, or not say. Take it all with a grain of salt, especially my own ranting.
However, I do believe I know social history pretty well. For example, I know racism, in broader terms, is a much bigger problem in the US than in the UK, but it’s hardly a non-issue there. The real problem is how the ruling elite play the races against each other. If you really want to understand, you’ll have to back up several centuries. Of all the lands which passed through Western feudalism, Britain never really left it. Granted, the culture of the English and their immediate neighbors have accomplished some wonderful things. Oh, how I wish I could afford to visit the British Isles, to see all the historical treasures! It also represents the very quintessence of arrogance and hatred. No, nobody is pretending all the Brits are that way; just those who run things.
My experience with UK citizens during my time in Europe was quite pleasant. I prefer their company to that of Americans. But those I met in Europe were a narrow slice, mostly military and related bureaucracies. Actually dealing with the bureaucracies was uniformly ghastly, worse than American versions of the same. For all their revulsion against their own bureaucrats, the Brits seem to have this inexplicable habit of keeping them insufferable.
It helps to demystify their history. That business at Runnymede (Magna Carta) was simply one set of psychopathic thugs telling another to make room at the table. To suggest this somehow contributed to the rights of common folk is obscene. It gets worse if you want to pretend something in there reflects God’s sense of justice. English History is loaded with great and powerful actors, but precious few we can justly call “good.” Same for here in the US.
Consider a government run by servants of someone else who intends to use and abuse the population for money and power. The real government, the secret one hidden in the background, aren’t likely to take any heat from the abused population. They can afford to let their minions believe they are so very important and deserve some wealth and comfort. It’s the sense of entitlement that makes them bend to the will of those others hidden in the background. Despite all the fantasy of social and political reform, the stratified class system in the UK never softened. It did change hands to a new crew, but the system passed through merely cosmetic changes. Accountability is even less now than it was in the Middle Ages.
In short, it seems policemen and other government officials consider it their duty to oppress. All the more so when the people being oppressed express some disinterest in becoming culturally the same as their oppressors. It’s the kind of arrogance that would try to put God on hold. They live in their alternative reality, demanding all the universe adjust itself or bug off. How it is their military generally makes more sense than ours, when the entire civilian bureaucracy makes less, is still a mystery to me.
Still, we do share one strong affinity: Both our government and theirs do really love insufferable thugs as policemen. They are not the least different from foreign occupying troops, given the way things are handled in context. So whatever you see in the lying MSM reports on the riots in the UK, please keep in mind it surely includes a measure of racism, unspeakably oppressive police, the same knowingly destructive social policies as the US and worse, along with a dose of genuine underclass thuggery. Saying it’s merely the latter is typical British bureaucratic bold faced lying. “It is because We say so.”