{"id":1042,"date":"2020-06-02T11:18:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T11:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2020-06-02T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T11:26:28","slug":"the-social-contract-between-government-and-people-is-unraveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"The Social Contract Between Government And People Is Unraveling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/wirepoints.org\/the-social-contract-between-government-and-people-is-unraveling-quicktake\/\">Mark Glennon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Numbers, budgets, charts and graphs about government finances. That\u2019s what we do here. We try to understand where public money should be spent and what it accomplishes.<\/p>\n<p>Through that lens, it\u2019s difficult to know where to begin on what has befallen the Chicago area and most of the country.<\/p>\n<p>For now, this simple observation seems paramount: The most fundamental element of the social contract between government and the people is cracking. That\u2019s the obligation of government to keep its citizens safe. For that, we surrender a portion of of our freedom and wealth to government for the collective good.<\/p>\n<p>That arrangement has been recognized as a foundational philosophy of civil society since Thomas Hobbes articulated it over 300 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens expect government to protect their lives and adhere to a civil process even when being arrested, just as they expect to be protected from riots and looting. Both expectations are now broken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sight of looters and arsonists pillaging stores at will has shaken the confidence of many that law enforcement is capable of maintaining the peace. It has also tainted the very real grief felt over the tragic loss of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not from a source that\u2019s unsympathetic to George Floyd or protesters. It\u2019s from an editorial in the <a href=\"https:\/\/m.startribune.com\/failure-of-leadership-added-to-twin-cities-chaos\/570880182\/\">Minneapolis Star-Tribune.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What will be the consequences breaking the social contract? Speculate if you want, but know that it may extend far beyond George Floyd\u2019s murder and the resulting violence.<\/p>\n<p>-Mark Glennon, Wirepoints Founder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mark Glennon Numbers, budgets, charts and graphs about government finances. That\u2019s what we do here. We try to understand where public money should be spent and what it accomplishes. Through that lens, it\u2019s difficult to know where to begin on what has befallen the Chicago area and most of the country. For now, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbmv.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}