I mean, are they really that bad to the economy? I understand they may be a scapegoat but it’s not a official reason the government gives to the public so it’s not that either. Like, i understand that maybe having welfare programs may affect the economy, but i think the purge will affect it way more. I don’t understand why the government would want so hard to kill homeless people and other poor people. I did not watched the movies so i am just curious about the premise, yes you can be curious about a movie premise or synopsis without needing to watch the whole movie. I want the answers from here and not from the movies because i know they are very violent and i don’t like this sort of movie
Edit: i searched for it and it said they believed it would reduce crime rates, do they really believe in that? I think even in the purge universe having the purge makes the country unsafe if anything. Also many poor people work low salary jobs that the rich depend on, i don’t think they are all useless
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It’s mostly for appearance and public perception. Don’t want people seeing them and making the city look bad to outside observers or foreigners. Particularly if outsiders see homeless people. Out of sight, out of mind.
The government in that version of America is fucked up. They’re a totalitarian theocracy whose decisions are based on insane fanatical doctrine rather than reason. The Purge isn’t really supposed to be a good idea in the world of the movies
The political party that runs the Purge is a right wing fascist cult.
They want to kill the homeless and the poor because they hate them out classism and racism since they are primarily minorities. And because they want their political propaganda to say that they managed to eradicate homelessness and lower poverty rates, only that said political propaganda omitted the part where they achieved those numbers by murdering the homeless and the poor, not by having good economic policies.
A key thing to understand about the Purge is that the system doesn’t work. It’s primarily a political propaganda tool run by a corrupt fascist government.
That’s all for show. The real purpose of the Purge is to distract people from government hit squads that use the violence as cover for getting rid of the governments’ enemies.
Recently in real life there has been a huge controversy over whether the fences of the golden gate bridge should be raised to prevent jumpers with some saying it would mess with the “esthetic” of the bridge.
It’s honestly likely that some politicians don’t want it raised because every homeless drug addict that jumps is seen as just one less headache for the city.
Now replaces those politicians with the ultra brutal ones in the purge and it would make some sense why they might ‘take matters into thier own hands’
Loosely:
The Purge was created to reduce crime caused by a bad economy. When they tested the theory people (mostly) just wanted to party and have fun. The NFFA, the new right wing ruling party, used mercenaries to both stoke the flames and go after the poor and minorities to fake the results that it worked. Less money to the poor means more money for the rich.
The Purge, through major propaganda (there was a Purge kids show in universe), kind of works. Crime does go down. When you only need to rob a bank once a year to be set for a year crime will be reduced. The NFFA also imposed major penalties for crimes outside the Purge with small infractions getting the death penalty.
Eventually resistance starts and the truth gets revealed that the Purge is meant to reduce the lower class population. The NFFA loses power and the Purge ends.
8 years later the NFFA regains power running on extreme xenophobia messages. The Purge returns, unfortunately the message gets out of hand when extreme racist hate groups decide the Purge needs to be 24/7.
Surely you jest. Source: current events