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Politics : New FADG.
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (1584)6/10/2007 4:53:49 PM
From: neolibRead Replies (1) of 4152
 
but by a middle classes whose aspirations to a higher standard of living had first been achieved to some measure, but then thwarted.

That concerns me with the general drift in the USA. With a quite free market system, we are slowly rebuilding the wealth gap of the royalty of europe vs. their lower middle class.

Two examples that came to my mind when reading that link were South Africa and Jamaica. Both have astonishingly high violent crime rates. Both have moderate fertility rates (2.4 Jamaica, 2.7 South Africa) and both have a "youth bulge". Both also have very significant wealth distribution issues. Neither has the religious factor which he tends to dismiss in Islamic terror (another red flag IMO). He should apply his theories to these two countries and see if they are consistent with the overall pattern.

IMO, he places too great an attribution on "excess" males, and too little on economic conditions and religious, racial, etc issues. He certainly does not seem to examine some significant data points that would argue against his premise.
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