How about “affluence”? Affluence allows that special “well, bless their hearts” sort of stupid to survive long enough to make itself known.
It isn’t that good times necessarily make weak men but that they can also, more devastatingly, make bad men who do not know they are bad because they have been somehow sheltered from moral knowledge and have had relatively little occasion to bump into it as happens in hard times when trousered apes (CS Lewis’ term) must at least face the limits of their own smug self absorption while trying to survive.
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Samm
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Yeah … but culture tends to get moldy faster in high humidity.
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STODR
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A bunch of them.
Missouri amusement park brawl involving upward of 150 teens injures off-duty deputy: sheriff’s office
Smyrna
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…and it’s rampant across our nation now.
Smyrna
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Ross Johnson, 23, of Carterville, Illinois, has been charged with manslaughter in the death of Air Force Airman 1st Class Dayvon Larry, 31, of Malone, Florida, authorities said Tuesday.
When you speak without knowing what you’re talking about, you tend to say foolish things.
Florida man is a thing. This is a very weird hill.
STODR
3668
What thing please explain
A funny thing
Florida Man is an Internet meme first popularized in 2013, referring to an alleged prevalence of men performing irrational, maniacal, illogical, delusional, insane, and absurd actions in the U.S. state of Florida
-wiki
Been going on for a decade or so.
It’s not a statistical thing btw. Just a funny thing.
STODR
3670
OK thanks, never heard of it.
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A great many of them involve a man carrying an alligator into a convenience store.
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A man was both the barber and loan shark in his community. He called his shop a shaving and loan.
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It’s really something when the Sheriff names you the dumb criminal of the week … in Florida.
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Samm
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I can see a new trend in mass shop lifting …
And the debate … Is the problem shoplifters or is it pepper spray?
Guvnah
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The problem is the hot dogs.
Not Philadelphia thuggery. Nope. Not at all. 
City of Brotherly Love. Indeed.
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Thankfully it wasnt double A batteries day.
Smyrna
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…and when race isn’t mentioned? 
This is where your typical ecoterrorists, Antifa, and Ivy League communists reside.
Indeed.
I have long said that Marx, being a liar, was in his element and lying when he spoke of religion as the opiate of the masses, for in fact it is the drivel he and the rest were peddling that is the true opiate for the masses and pointy headed elites alike, for in socialist thought you find many showing something like salvationist zeal for their Revolution which is completely lacking in any of that messy and unwanted repentance and righteousness guff. Marxist are simply free to be the worst trousered apes they can be and they still deem themselves okay because they support the cause.