RICHARD SENNETT, brandishing his credentials as professor of sociology at the London School of Economics (and thus as eminent psychologist of the lower classes), and his wife, Saskia Sassen, a professor at Columbia, offer their combined intercontinental expertise on the editorial pages of The New York Times today to warn that the Tea Party may provoke proletarian rioting in the United States comparable to that in England.

And that’s just fine with these academic gangsters. America’s elite is more than willing to provide the moral legitimacy to looters, window-smashers and hooded plunderers if taxpayers don’t fork over the money. 

They write:

The American right today is obsessed with cutting government spending. In many ways, Mr. Cameron’s austerity program is the Tea Party’s dream come true. But Britain is now grappling with the consequences of those cuts, which have led to the neglect and exclusion of many vulnerable, disaffected young people who are acting out violently and irresponsibly — driven by rage rather than an explicit political agenda.

America is in many ways different from Britain, but the two countries today are alike in their extremes of inequality, and in the desire of many politicians to solve economic and social ills by reducing the power of the state.

That’s right. The Tea Party is “obsessed” with cutting spending out of pure hatred, not because the federal government is going bankrupt.

Extremes of inequalty? Britain pays non-working couples as much as $42,000 a year in welfare benefits and single mothers, almost $30,000. How could Britain not have extremes of inequality? Its work ethic and family stability have been eaten away. The British people have become wards of the state. Britain is so enervated and demoralized, its citizens don’t even know how to feed themselves anymore. Theodore Dalrymple wrote that many of the convicts he saw as a prison psychiatrist were suffering from a form of malnutrition, having grown up on bags of chips for dinner. Britain’s problem is not inequality, it’s decadence.

There may always be rage on this planet as long as flat screen TV’s are not free.  The Tea Party is unlikely to change that. Still, I wouldn’t want to be the owner of an urban electronics store if Obama loses. I’m inclined to think Sennett and his wife almost want the Tea Party to gain power. They wouldn’t mind seeing the glass shards fly and cars bursting into beautiful flames, stingy white America receiving its comeuppance at last.

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