This article, from my reading, is separating this particular behaviour from normal law enforcement behaviour, and within that space of difference is the problem.
It is a problem of recent creation.
It is a problem of recent creation.
Recent observation I came across: folks like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers stopped marching ever since the ICE raids started.
>But as I said, this isn’t about crime. It’s about paranoid conspiracy theories and an attempt to dismantle democracy.
Most people don't think of 'normal law enforcement', they just see crime, people in the country illegally and others trying to make law enforcements job harder. They don't care about these types of arguments about how this is different from "normal" law enforcement.
You can care about these arguments , and a small percentage of people do, but if you want to be persuasive to the overwhelming majority, you have to put it in concrete terms how more police and law enforcement is actually bad.
I'm OK with that sentiment of yours, but I'm also OK with the article itself and the direction it implies this administration is going.
Normies don't persuade easy, that's why they're normies. Trump has worked out how to persuade them: by lying hyperbolically and providing the 'circus' of the bread and circus method. But it's a dark circus, and its involuntary audience are only those already lost to Trump.
That's where I disagree with you. Normies persuade very easily. Just give them a better life. Tell them you'll make their life materially better and they'll be persuaded to support it.
See those tents on the street? I'll get rid of them.
Don't like to step over needles? I'll clean it up.
Are you annoyed by having stores put shampoo behind lock and key? I'll start arresting and prosecuting the <1% of people stealing.
Persuading the voters is seen as a last resort, a distasteful task that really shouldn't be necessary, if we could just get the right systems in place to keep them pacified and voting for more of the same.
It is for this reason that so many young people, left and right, are latching onto non or even anti-democratic political ideologies. The systems themselves have become the highest good as opposed to what they were originally designed for. Due process no longer means a swift and fair trial, it means endless shifting paperwork and appeals that make our judiciary collapse on itself. Building anything is no longer about the funds and means to build it but about the willpower to trudge through 5+ layers of approval from councils and faceless agencies. All the while, elite overproduction has created a whole class of "expert" who cannot understand the world 3 inches from their face but are supposed to be trusted at all times to make the best decision on our behalf.