As Our Society Sinks Into Dystopian Violence and Chaos, the Billionaires Who Are the Real Problem Tell Us, 'See. The BLM Folks Who Called for Defunding the Police are CRAZY!'
It's the billionaires, stupid! More oppressive police just means more oppression.
The new normal:
Progressives who advocated defunding the police are increasingly on the defensive now because dystopian violence and chaos are causing people to say we need more, not fewer, police. Read below (the clip is from this Boston Globe article ) about how this is happening to the Progressive Party in Vermont:
Is it just me, or do you too detect in the above article, in the Oh-so-liberal Boston Globe owned by the billionaire John Henry, just a bit of a self-satisfied smirk and sign of enjoyment at the sharpening conflict between the Progressive Party and its moderate (Democratic Party) opposition in Bernie-Sanders-land? Keep reading to see why the John Henry’s love this conflict.
What about the police?
The billionaires created the police forces to control the have-nots, to keep them poor and divided against each other. The slave patrols in the South became police departments. The strike-breaking hired goons elsewhere became police departments. The police gain some public support by occasionally doing some things that seem to be about protecting ordinary people from criminals. This is the “cover story” for the police; their actual purpose—the reason they are paid and the aim of the orders they receive—is to cow the have-nots into submission to the haves.
The actual oppressive purpose of the police is why many good people want to defund the police.
But the cover story of the police is why many other good people—including blacks and Hispanics!—do NOT want to defund the police, as I discuss here and where I link to this Gallup Poll company’s article:
The billionaires know very well that this is the reason why good people are divided over the question whether the police are the problem or the solution. The billionaires want us to STAY divided over that question as the linked article above (also here ) about the Progressive Party in Vermont illustrates.
What the billionaires do NOT want us to do is to unite against THEM, with the knowledge that THEY are the cause of our dystopian problems. With respect to the question of “what about the police?” this would mean doing what most people would love but what the “progressive” and “moderate” and “conservative” politicians never do:
#1. Condemn the police for their oppressive functions such as a) enforcing evictions of people who contribute reasonably according to ability but are too poor to pay the rent, and b) enforcing—with the routine use of violence or its credible threat against the poorest and working class people—all the laws whose purpose is to maintain morally wrong class inequality.
#2. Stop paying, equipping and authorizing police to do these oppressive things!
#3. Authorize, pay and equip people as necessary to use whatever force is required to protect pro-social people (i.e., those who don’t harm others) from anti-social people (i.e., those who harm others) and provide professional help to people when needed.
The dystopian violence and chaos is just too obvious now to deny.
In San Francisco human feces on the sidewalks, from homeless people treated like dirt, prevent small business owners from attracting customers. Crime is so bad that people now write signs to burglars pleading with them to rob somebody else (see one example above.)
Mass shootings in the United States are so frequent now that they are almost not even newsworthy anymore. Students in our public schools are at risk of being killed by other students with a rifle.
In Massachusetts we read:
Fights and disorder at the school of about 3,500 students have become so severe that in February four members of the school committee asked Gov. Maura Healey to send in the Massachusetts National Guard to bolster the ranks of the overwhelmed staff.
As I write, today’s newspaper reports these fatal and non-fatal shootings of students in Philadelphia:
The billionaires have created this dystopian hell for the have-nots to live in. And YES, it is the billionaires who are responsible because we live under their dictatorship, as even academic research confirms.
If our society were an egalitarian one, with real, not fake, democracy, in which there were no rich and no poor because the economic principle was the enormously popular one of “From each according to reasonable ability, to each according to need or reasonable desire with scarce things equitably rationed according to need,” then we would not be living in this dystopia.
People would not be pitted against each other to make us controllable by the rich, as is the case today. The billionaires do this by constantly telling us with their mass media that making our society equal means merely ensuring that we compete against each other on a “level playing field.” The fundamental nature of our relationship with other people, according to the billionaires, is thus that we are all each other’s competitor, which is to say enemy! For the billionaires, the dystopian Hunger Games world is really just how they want our society to be. The billionaires make us compete against each other all the time for things they make sure are always artificially scarce—for a job, for a pay increase, for admission to a school, for a decent home to live in, for a nice neighborhood to live in—and never let us make our society on a large scale be based on mutual aid so things are good for all of us.
If it weren’t for the billionaires and the police whose purpose is to cow us into submission to them, people would instead be in relations of equality (i.e., “From each according…”) and mutual aid with other people. People would be happy or at least relatively content, not so insecure (financially and emotionally) and depressed and suicidal and prone to fits of anger and violence like today. We would not be living in the dystopia that currently prevails.
The billionaires, however, LOVE the current dystopia. They think the have-nots are less likely to remove the billionaires from power if we’re too depressed and hopeless to think of making a better world (as I discuss here). They think we won’t be able to mount a serious large scale effort to remove the rich from power if we’re too preoccupied by the daily struggle just to survive. They think we won’t even believe we have the right to remove the rich from power if we’re persuaded that we’re inferior to the rich and deserve only the crumbs that are tossed to us when the rich treat us like dirt.
Some photos tell the story of the dystopia that the billionaires have created for us:
The billionaires are making people homeless:
The billionaires are making teachers fear for their own lives and the lives of their students:
The billionaires make it impossible for many people to make ends meet:
The billionaires force students into debt slavery:
The billionaires tell us it’s your OWN fault if you’re a have-not:
The billionaires are bringing back child labor:
but surely just out of the goodness of their hearts, right?
Attention college students: the billionaires are not bloodsuckers…just plasma suckers:
Billionaires get rich by making sick people so desperate they’ll pay outrageous prices for medicine, especially the 7.9% of Americans (26 million people) who are uninsured, not to mention the many others whose insurance won’t pay for the medicine their doctor says they need:
Adding insult to injury, the billionaires CAUSE us to get sick, as I show in great detail here.
Billionaires use a “poverty draft” (see the photo below illustrating how) and/or Big Lies (Gulf of Tonkin for Vietnam, WMD for Iraq, etc) to make have-nots enlist in the military to kill other have-nots on behalf of the rich, then let them get PTSD and become suicidal, and then treat them like dirt:
The poverty draft at work:
The billionaires make our society one in which the have-nots have to pretend to love being oppressed:
The billionaires TAUNT the poor by pretending to care for them while doing things that demonstrate they don’t:
The billionaires treat us like dirt:
Excellent article John. The photos are most revealing
While the police serve a few useful social functions (which could be easily replaced by the working classes if empowered to do so), their main purpose is to enforce the status quo which in this social system of vast inequality means social repression and the armed use of force when required.
So without addressing the source of this vast inequality (Capitalism) the calls for "defunding the police" are farcical. And these bourgeois politicians are wedded to the current system and have no intention of such "defunding". It's just another slogan meant to ameliorate the tensions created by the system without the least intention to address the underlying problem which requires revolutionary change.