De Facto Civil War Between Police and the Public?

[Bob Butler 54]

(10-06-2016, 09:50 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: How is Hillary Clinton "totalitarian?" Don't you think that's a rather absurd exaggeration?

I'd second this.  During the Bush 43 years, if you believed what you read on political forums like this one, all Democrats were communist totalitarians while all Republicans were Fascist totalitarians.  I find both notions to be equally vile stereotypes.  "Absurd exaggerations" would also be descriptive.

I'm also seeing long memories of quite dead spirals of violence being raised.  Yes, there was the beginning of a spiral of violence during the awakening years around 1968.  The left lost MLK, and the two Kennedys.  On the flip side there were a lot of demonstrations and riots.  The Blue Awakening was quite dead by the Fall of Saigon, Watergate and Tapestry.  The awakening spirals are but a memory.

Similarly, Waco, Ruby Ridge and OKC reflected a right wing v government spiral.  Clinton 42 changed the rules of engagement, reducing the level of force to be used by the FBI, BATF and similar federal law enforcement agencies.  OKC turned everybody off on the use of force for political gains.  The picture of the fireman carrying the baby's corpse is of note.  That spiral too is way dormant.  Rural 'militias' are still armed.  They still talk the talk.  The rhetoric is still there.  Still, the actual violence is just about nil. You might count the ranchers that took over the wild life preserve, but law enforcement continued to use Clinton 42's slow non violent approach to containing potential violence.  They didn't use tanks or burn children.

The hot spiral of violence is racist cops against black people.  That's there and the media is all over it, but Clinton isn't pushing the violence.  Trump's racist and law and order approach might be likened to typical totalitarian racial scapegoating and glorification of the power or the state.  Even so, labeling him 'totalitarian' seems an exaggeration to me.  Some truth, but at least as much exaggeration.

I've been not quite expecting but waiting for Trump supporters wearing brown shirt style pseudo military uniforms marching near Trump rallies.  Trump knows better, I think.  He has an unusual style, but hasn't gone that far.  So far, we're seeing 'Make America Great Again' baseball caps rather than military uniforms.