Resist or Submit, by Robert Gore STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC
The government officials pushing to eliminate or defund police are slitting their own throats. The praetorians of any government—the police and military—are always just as corrupt as the government of which they are a part. However, the de facto first duty of the praetorians is to protect the government itself, and that becomes more paramount as the government becomes more corrupt. Appeasing violence by renouncing one’s defenses against it guarantees more violence and the eventual elimination of the renouncers, i.e. useful idiots.
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I'm thinking of Sleeping Gas, go in, load em up and dump em a deep hole somewhere.
You hit the "Head on the Nail" again, Robert.
(reversed it on purpose)
As you stated many have gone "Roof-top Korean" I include myself and a number of people I know are doing the same. If this continues through to November many people will choose not to vote. They may see that it could be dangerous going to the polls. Unless the polling station put up scanners many law abiding gun owners will conceal carry when going to vote.
"The animating spirit of this proposal is allowing people to go their own way and find their own place, in short, to live and let live."
Regarding splitting the country into individual regions, the proposed solution does nothing to get at the root of the problem: people who have so insulated themselves in the big cities that they lose sense of the bigger picture. You're not going to get migration and regionalization by ideology without doing something about the big cities. The reality is that in a republic, those big cities control policy by virtue of the size of the voting base and the voting base itself is deluded and disconnected with reality.
Take Portland, for instance. The Portland area controls nearly 75% of Oregon's entire population in about 2% of the land area. The vast farmlands of Eastern Oregon are staunchly Red - they have even talked about trying to remove themselves from the progressive "Left Coast" and glom onto their neighboring - and far more conservative - Idaho.
I agree that the enforcement aspect of a government is in large measure a reflection of the ideology of the government itself and that we are seeing the disintegration of government in these suicidal cities such as Minneapolis which are justifying vigilanteism writ large. What to do about it? That is the question. Ultimately, we may be seeing the disintegration of society itself into gang-centered or nationality-centered enclaves circa "Escape from LA" or Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Time will tell.
IMHO, the American Republic isn't witnessing mainly two socialist groups warring in the streets for supremacy, like Weimar did, but there is a single entity combining the two and is at war with what's left of the Republic. Of course the American Republic isn't as weak as Weimar was, but it is being slowly bled into weakness.
A couple years ago a good friend of mine and colleague (an architect I work with) and I read 1984 simultaneously. We'd trade notes each morning at our desks. Several things in that story really grabbed these two liberty lovers. But, the one about when Winston asks O'Brian what the purpose of the torture is something we still mention to each other on a regular basis to try to understand what we're seeing in America today. "The object of torture is torture." In essence, the purpose of torture is torture. That is a pretty eye-opening statement....because it seems so applicable today.
I hope you continue to write these insightful essays.
Thank you!
Thanks for the recommendation.