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Democrats Paid For Trump’s Army

libertiesjournal.com Democrats Paid For Trump's Army

The first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second administration have been characterized, among other things, by an obscene display of policing power, one that has largely alarmed liberals because it appears completely lawless. One of Trump’s initial acts was pardoning and commuting people convicted of c...

Democratic politicians supported the proliferation of law enforcement, on public transportation, in schools, even inside homes, a move that has only served to increase the number of people killed by police. Democratic policies are what first empowered the police to become a violent force against the left and in deference to Trump. What Trump understands is that the glory, power, and social currency of the police serve as the backbone for authoritarianism in the United States. It is a militaristic, hyper masculine system which is impervious to change and maddeningly difficult to monitor.

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Biden's answer to the defund the police movement was to insist on funding the police even harder as if that has ever solved anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9XkWRLpJmY
- This is the moment I knew Biden was exactly who he said he was for decades. Old racist man who thinks police beating black people is the natural way of doing things.

This seems to be the next “talking point” after “genocide joe” - somehow Trump's actions are the democrat’s fault!
Don’t fall for it. We need to unite and support the one viable alternative to Republican power expansion, not quibble and bicker over “leftist” vs “progressive” vs “liberal” vs “centrist” and how the Democrats aren’t pure or perfect enough.
- Nah, it's long past time to abandon the Democratic establishment. If we need a political party, make it a workers party. If we want to help, we need to build community.
  
  We are repeating history with another Guilded age. And we need a true peoples party to rise up and fight for all workers. Solidarity of the working class can pull people out of this.
  Fight for your neighbors, for your struggles are more aligned than you realize.
  Fight for yourself, because the established parties stopped fighting for you decades ago.
  Focus on what matters. An egg for every pan.
- Nah their silence says it all. The vast majority of democrats are clearly content with this shit show. I’m not voting to help democrat donors anymore, they can either help working class people or die as far as I care.
  
  the far left/right collab to take down the dems is quite something
- No, the Democratic leadership is ineffective at best, complicit at worst. They need to go so we have an actual opposition party. They're not going to do anything but save their own asses.
  10 democrats voted with Republicans to censure one of their own. They need to clean house before they can actually mount any opposition.
  Blue no matter who was kicking the can down the road to buy some time, but was never a real solution. They weren't even able to Garner enough popular support so now we're in this mess.
  Time to put people in who are as passionate about protecting the constitution as the current party leadership is about crushing populist candidates.
- And wind up right back here in another election.
  Now is the chance to reform and fight back. Not to die defending a failing status quo.
- Yeah stop talking about how biden supported genocide, the police state, attacks on refugees, etc.
  We gotta stop the other team from doing the same thing!!!
  (And then y'all blame the voters when you lose.)
  
  so did you support hamas in the conflict?
  
  Guessing you’re behind one of those <1%ers like Jill Stein?
- You're right. Democrats are absolutely perfect at all times and we should never question them no matter what they do.
  
  Seems you have a reading problem Crab, I didn't see them say that at all.

Democrats have always laid the foundation for Republican oppression, then claim to oppose that oppression when it happens. Someone like Trump will weaponize the police that Biden militarized. All of a sudden liberals will become aware of the 60+ cop cities across the country
- Im guessing you weren’t an adult in 1996, would that be accurate?
  
  And you would be way off. Democrats have been militarizing the police for decades.
  
  "I assume you are younger than me and are therefore wrong" - boomers who made this mess.

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it was NOT the democratic policies that first empowered the police to become a violent force against the left and in deference to Trump. it was their own immoral, unjust, violent actions that created the problem. corrupt people themselfs are the problem .

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