The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(09-25-2020, 10:41 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(09-25-2020, 09:44 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(09-25-2020, 01:55 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: CNN has the Buffalo police department as implementing a policy of having no names on uniforms for police officers.  This is a real concern for the police.  People will publicize the names on the net, inviting retribution for misdeeds real and imagined.  But it could also be a way for bad officers to avoid responsibility.

If there is a conspicuous and obvious other way of identifying the officers, say a badge number, this might be acceptable.

Buffalo won't have any police to worry about for much longer and neither will you eventually. PB might luck out and still have some. I amazed that you're still going along and supporting BLM but that's what sheeple do these days.

I am supporting BLM, but not the Boogaloo Bois, the looters, or the racist violent bad cops, or the various red Trump allies that are supporting violence in the name of law and order.  The laws must be enforced, and must be changed.

In Buffalo, the violent police union seems to be standing strong against the elected government.  I suspect this will not survive the never again phase of the crisis.  In the meantime, if the city police are unchangeably corrupt, you may have to go with disbanding the local police and expanding the county or state police forces. You can't tolerate resistance to democracy, and I expect those that try won't survive the never again phase of the crisis.

A 4T is so nasty because the leadership of the 3T has typically stymied any reforms other than to let people do what they were doing already -- especially if those people are already rich and powerful.  Gridlock fosters rot while achieving nothing except the deferral of needful change. What usually succeeds in a 4T establishes norms that fit mass sentiments. That at its best means rational thought, law and order (if without the wanton brutality that goes with the phrase), a promotion of economic equality, more inclusion of people recently relegated to a permanent underclass, and the general attitude (developed in a 4T) that we are all in it. Family life becomes more important than turning big profits. Quality of life matters for children again. There's nor much room for extremist hooligans in a 4T. 

No two Crises are quite alike. We have never had a leader of our country trying to maintain or get despotic power since George III. The harder he squeezed the Colonies the more they slipped away from his grasp. Whether Trump can get away with threats to dishonor an electoral result that he dislikes is yet to be determined. Maybe someone makes him an offer that he cannot refuse -- basically, step down and there will be state and federal pardons or let the military decide things. President Trump seems to be as beloved by senior officers in the US Armed Forces as Salvador Allende was in Chile in 1973 or the Philippines in 1987.