As the Trump administration continues to press the boundaries of the Constitution, Johns Hopkins Professor Lester Spence says we need to understand one yet-to-be-examined source of the push towards authoritarianism: urban policing.
by cops… who are typically directed to do so by mayors… who are usually dems…
“these right wingers” are just predominantly brown leftists you disagree with. Did you even read the article?
If you’ve ever lived in a strongly blue major city for any length of time you’ll have seen this play out. Liberal mayor runs on big promises of reform, of progressive policy, maybe even of radical change, and a few years later there’s another incident, more unrest, whatever, and they’re first in line to have the cops put it down with force. There’s a whole interplay with right wing media and racist voters and other factors, but time and time again dem local governments choose to enact “law and order” overpolicing over solving the fundamental systemic issues causing violence, property crime, etc
How do you think Florida ended up the way it is? I’ve lived here on and off for the last 40-odd years. Texas happened the same way - right-winners taking inch by inch until they refuse to compromise out of spite and rig elections left and right. Now they’ve done it at the national level and I’m a few years it will be moderate-liberals that have to fix the mess they’re making.
What the fuck did Joe Biden fix? Did he fix the genocide in Gaza, did he? Did Obama fix the rampant corruption and financialization that led to the 2008 crash? What was he fixing when he had his cabinet orchestrate the maidan coup? Did Clinton fix the war on drugs with the crime bill?
Liberals don’t fix jack shit. They pretend now it’s too late to do anything, theyre powerless, at best things can stay mostly the same. And you better behave and vote for them next time because these laws they just passed can be used to facilitate a lot of fascism (it’s ok for them to have them because they’re not fascists though!)
by cops… who are typically directed to do so by mayors… who are usually dems…
“these right wingers” are just predominantly brown leftists you disagree with. Did you even read the article?
If you’ve ever lived in a strongly blue major city for any length of time you’ll have seen this play out. Liberal mayor runs on big promises of reform, of progressive policy, maybe even of radical change, and a few years later there’s another incident, more unrest, whatever, and they’re first in line to have the cops put it down with force. There’s a whole interplay with right wing media and racist voters and other factors, but time and time again dem local governments choose to enact “law and order” overpolicing over solving the fundamental systemic issues causing violence, property crime, etc
When both parties are conservative parties, everybody gets to be a right winger no matter what color your jersey is.
How do you think Florida ended up the way it is? I’ve lived here on and off for the last 40-odd years. Texas happened the same way - right-winners taking inch by inch until they refuse to compromise out of spite and rig elections left and right. Now they’ve done it at the national level and I’m a few years it will be moderate-liberals that have to fix the mess they’re making.
I’ll say it again
Did you even read the article? Do you have anything to say about the example discussed in it?
When the fuck have “moderate liberals” fixed a single thing
Every single time they grab power. Every. Single. Time. Billionaires did not sprout out of some Republican’s pus filled boyle.
Every single time? Lmao.
What the fuck did Joe Biden fix? Did he fix the genocide in Gaza, did he? Did Obama fix the rampant corruption and financialization that led to the 2008 crash? What was he fixing when he had his cabinet orchestrate the maidan coup? Did Clinton fix the war on drugs with the crime bill?
Liberals don’t fix jack shit. They pretend now it’s too late to do anything, theyre powerless, at best things can stay mostly the same. And you better behave and vote for them next time because these laws they just passed can be used to facilitate a lot of fascism (it’s ok for them to have them because they’re not fascists though!)
Deeply ahistorical, terminally unserious.