You need to give people a class below them that they can be better than. That is the permanent criminal class in the US. Our foundation was built on offering s

You need to give people a class below them that they can be better than. That is the permanent criminal class in the US. Our foundation was built on offering second chances to groups marginalized or persecuted in Europe. A place those cast aside by the old world could start anew, contribute to society, and reshape their destinies away from the strictures and conflicts that had defined their past. In the American wild west, criminals could go on be to lawmen. People were given a second chance. Second chances are what made America strong (that and opening our country to immigrants to give them a first chance). Modern America doesn't believe in those things. It doesn't believe in it's foundation myth on immigration and second chances. It doesn't believe in it's 'wild west' myth of immigration and second chances. We have become something very angry and ugly.