Yea, I know, the title doesn't totally make sense, but you get my point.
Obviously the USA has a police problem. Obviously we have psychopathic cops killing people, of all races, but per capita wise more so those of dark skin. The marches, the protests, the fear, the hysteria, the babbling pundits, the campaign promises, the political threats, the disinformation, the blame and accusations are rampant, active and growing, and in some cases very valid. What's bothering me though is, how media and social media is portraying this as a "Left/Right" schism, with many on the left depicting this as a left leaning "civil rights" issue, versus a right leaning "law and order" issue.
Balderdash, poppycock and covfefe on that I say. :)
The ongoing militarization of our police, both in the physical sense and in the hiring, screening, training, attitude, mantras, temperament and resultant street level actions is due to *both* parties policies. What I mean is, the police would *not* be acting like this, they would not be entrapping people, setting people up, goading people, trying to dominate, abusing and killing people...if the laws were not there allowing it, in some cases encouraging it, and giving them immunity from their actions. And who made those laws? Politicians. Both Democrat and Republican.
People need to remember that a good part of this ties to the 50 year failed war on drugs. It was politicians trying to curry favor with voters promising to be "Tough on Crime" (instead of being *smart* on "crime") for the last few decades that set the tone for increased policing, laws against simple possession, more cops, more fire power, more judges, more prison sentences, longer prison sentences, resulting in overcrowding of prisons, which resulted in building private prisons for profit. And a good part of those laws were drafted, written, approved, voted on and passed by...Democrats.
Bill Clinton was one of the worst. His wife, Hillary Clinton, no shrinking violet she, fully supported the same stupidity. So did Al Gore. So did Joe Biden, So did Kamala Harris and probably about 95% of the rest of the Democrat politicians in the aforementioned time frame...but *not* Bernie Sanders. Bernie has a clue, common sense and always has, but that's another topic.
So now we have most Dems trying to portray this whole ugly horrible mess as being the fault of Trump, the GOP and their moronic "law and order" political message retardation. Yea, that's not even close to being true. Dems supported the war on drugs, Dems supported the increase in policing as we currently know it. Dems supported the Patriot Act. Dems supported giving police all the left over military hardware, guns, ammo, massive armored vehicles left over from the failed Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Dems supported giving police qualified immunity.
This, and obviously other factors, ended up creating a situation where police feel like they can kneel on someone's neck, for almost 9 minutes, in bright daylight, with people milling around, with those same people videotaping the cops, while they murder someone...and get away with it.
We, meaning Americans, voters and tax payers, need to hold *all* our employees accountable. And yes, all politicians, from the local small town mayor to the members of Congress and the President "work for you" and not the other way around. Most other 1st world nations don't have this problem because the voters would never allow their politicians to create such idiotic laws and policies. So while it might be politically advantageous right before a contentious presidential election between one of the stupidest fucking dumb fucks on the planet, meaning Trump, and 4th rate candidate Joe Biden, to act like this is because of cops...and part of it is, it's also because of the people that wrote the laws that allowed some cops to do this....so hold them responsible as well.
