The Purge is already happening! Read here how.

Rating: 6/10 (3 August 2013)

The point of The Purge is NOT showing us a good or likely way to end the recession. Nor is trying to tell us that this is a way to reduce violence.
No, the POINT of the movie is of course addressing the ridiculous gun laws in the USA and how over-the-top they've become. Sandy Hook has shown us that the subversive NRA-element in our midst doesn't really care how much kids are being killed, they're always gonna pervert any tragedy into a call for more, not less guns. When Tucson happened, they managed to convince the father of the 9 year old girl to cry and to not blame guns.
Of course, if people kill people and guns don't kill people, what the hell do they need guns for?
It's showing one likely consequence of the current gun-culture. It's asking: "What could be the ultimate consequence of lax gun laws?" Oops sorry, 'free' gun laws.
Yhe movie is not really trying to be realistic, and that is it's main weakness: The story is so full of holes, that it completely detracts from the message. It allows the gun nuts to say: "This sort of thing would never have happened to me, because I would have done this and that", like, bought a generator. Instead of addressing the real issue, namely, what do we do about all these guns in the hands of extreme fear-mongered people?
I think there's also a sizable minority, like 30-35% that truly believes that killing all the poor people will revive the economy and reduce crime. However, the MOST damaging criminals are white collar criminals, like Goldman Sachs, who openly lied to their customers, in order to sell them faulty products and still weren't indicted for fraud.
Imagine that GM sold you a faulty car with an exploding motor, and it DID explode, wouldn't GM be sued?
So, killing all the poor people would NOT reduce crime, would not solve a thing. That aspect DOES highlight an immoral, vicious and un-Christian streak in American society: the conviction that poor people are poor because they're lazy, that the poor have only themselves to blame for their poverty, and, it's CERTAINLY not the fault of the rich paying too little in taxes. That's quite a sick attitude, an extremist right-wing variation on blaming the victim. But it's an attitude that's very popular because it absolves the middle class from doing anything about poverty.
Ain't that mighty Christian of them?
The Melancholic Alcoholic.