The GOP will call for more militarization as a response to all of this. Some liberals will as well. It will only further entrench the white supremacist leadership that brought us here.
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But people are afraid, and the *easy* response to that is "more cops" (basically everywhere) and more arguments about gun control that go nowhere.
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I am telling you now that the government will use the violence that Trump himself has rallied as an excuse for more militarization, more surveillance, more violations of civil liberties -- and a lot of people are going to welcome these things bc they are afraid.
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I'm not guessing or being creative here. This is about having a sense of history and a sense of how these systems function in the present. I would love to be wrong. I would celebrate being wrong. But I'm not.
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#BernieSanders, whom I supported as the best of the bunch of the rotten bananas, and anything to get the mad man OUT, already did call for more “investment in law enforcement.” Lost me#BernieSanders TOTALLY LOST MY SUPPORT. Bummer. - Show replies
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Afraid is the plan
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I so agree. As soon as he put his hat in the ring, I was fearing his rhetoric would get people killed. Just from what I knew from history - I could see it being repeated. Sadly, the Quebec mosque, Tree of Life, NZ realized my worst fears. And it continues.
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I strongly disagree with the characterization that Trump rallied this violence, but I think you're right that this fear will be used to push for authoritarian policies like you suggested.
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It’s the same playbook from 2001.
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I have been thinking about this all day.
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History repeats itself- 1917 to 1920: “The 100-year flood”. Except for the Jim Crow South, it would prove to be the harshest burst of political repression and fear-mongering in either twentieth- or twenty-first-century America, stoked by ruling class. http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176592/tomgram%3A_adam_hochschild%2C_america%27s_real_war/#more …
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