Conservatives on the other hand want space. Space to DIY things in, space to breath, space to build. Conservatism is the spirit of independence. You work hard and you play hard. You build relationships and teams but all of them are "arms length" in nature. Nobody expects anyone else to give them something. It will be give and then take over time. Tallies are not kept in paper but everyone knows at any time who they owe favors to and yes, who owes them a favor.
With liberals, trust is given to appointees. The administrator or the magistrate is to be trusted. With conservatives, trust cannot be mandated by fiat or by election. It has to be earned. Track record is everything. As the herd moves away from liberalism and toward conservatism it was always expected that trust in the mandated, edict leaders would wane. And with that loss of trust and confidence would come many other things including loss of respect for laws put in place by the elite for the elite and also loss of respect and trust for the police who enforce these policies.
Most people who read this will say "how does this matter to me". To that I say, yes it is going to matter. It will matter a lot. It will mean you have to become more self supporting/self sufficient and count less and less on government. But there is one big way that it will affect us all because as I have written many times, the fake money will lose its purchasing power when people lose confidence in the issuing authority. This is coming and faster than people think is possible.
While not mainstream, we are seeing people like Ryan Stancil of Outside Club (a good suggestion that they are not mainstream...) write things that could almost rival the predictions I have been making for years. You can see his latest email below. The title says it all. And for those who many not remember, I said long ago that the debt Ponzi was actually a trust Ponzi in posts like this one. The death of public trust is the beginning of the end to the Global Debt Ponzi.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
The Death of Public Trust
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
Turn on any news
channel and it looks like something out of a work of dystopian science
fiction.
Gangs of cops, clad in
body armor, their faces hidden behind visors and masks, walk the streets. God
help anyone who crosses their path.
Overhead, a glowing sign
looms. A politician’s smiling face sits next to a reminder that curfew starts
at 8.
Military vehicles move
in convoys down those same streets. A person hunkered down in their home
records from a window.
Cars burn and
businesses are ransacked. People everywhere wonder if it’s even safe to go to
sleep that night, for fear of what might happen next.
This is America in
2020.
The coronavirus
pandemic (remember that?) has been unseated as the Story of the Year. The new
focus is a wave of unrest that has swept from coast to coast.
It can be traced back
to the tragic death of George Floyd. But that was just the proverbial line
finally being crossed.
What we’ve been seeing
for the past week is the natural conclusion to the story of a country that
has long teetered on the edge. A country that has long been staring into the
abyss of societal decline before finally stepping off the ledge.
The roots of this
whole thing are far-reaching, the implications many, and the outcome murky at
best. One thing that is clear is that many people are finally getting a look
behind the curtain.
Division
and Disarray
Divisions in this
country have been clear for some time. We’re so used to both racial and class
divides that it seems like we hardly think about them anymore. But one type
of division many people are forced to face for the first time in light of
this is that of citizens vs. authority.
Just this past week,
there have been many videos of police officers attacking peaceful protestors.
They’ve been pepper-sprayed, attacked with non-lethal rounds, beaten with
clubs. There’s even video of an NYPD SUV driving into a crowd of people. Not
even reporters are safe, with some having been arrested while others have
been shot by pepper balls.
The unrest has gotten
so bad that curfews have been imposed in over two dozen cities across the
country. Police, backed by National Guard units in some places, have taken to
exercising intimidation to enforce these curfews. One video showed someone
from a patrol in Minneapolis firing paint at people standing on their porch.
The citizens were simply recording the police. In Denver, a protest quickly
collapsed into chaos when officers began using tear gas and pepper bullets to
clear protestors out of a park 5 minutes after the start of an 8 p.m.
curfew.
These are just two
stories of local law enforcement taking action without regard for optics or
consequences. No surprise, considering they are being bolstered not just by
vague, sweeping powers to crack down on protests, but by the president
himself.
Never one to see a
spotlight he doesn’t like, Donald Trump was quick to label himself as a
“president of law and order.” His rhetoric was aggressive, lumping protestors
and scattered pockets of violent, opportunistic rioters in the same group. He
vowed military action if things got too out of hand, and promised a very
cavalier approach in stamping out this problem.
This goes hand-in-hand
with the longstanding issue of the militarization of police forces. Officers
are given tools like armored personnel carriers, automatic weapons, and other
pieces of equipment typically used by the military. Their training
increasingly stresses that everyone who isn’t a cop is the enemy. So it’s no
surprise that in the case of the recent unrest especially, officers often
escalate the situation instead of deescalating.
We’ve reached this
situation because an overzealous cop killed a man in broad daylight. Many in
that community seem to have no problem taking it to the next level. This is
especially true when they know the commander-in-chief has their back.
But people can only be
pushed so far.
Nearly two decades in
Afghanistan have made it clear that trying to hold a society together through
aggressive military response simply doesn’t work. Curfews and intimidation
tend to lead to resentment more than they do compliance. And resentment, when
it festers long enough, tends to turn into action and even more
escalation.
Even now, as protests
continue, Donald Trump and his kind favor an aggressive response to a problem
caused by the sort of divisiveness that has largely defined his presidency.
Accountability from law enforcement has been thrown out the window.
Into
Uncertainty
Uncertainty seems to
be the theme of 2020. If you said just two weeks ago that the nation would
soon be in the grip of growing unrest, no one would have believed you. But
now that we’re here, there’s no telling how this story is going to end.
The officers
responsible for the action that started this have been arrested, but the
truth about how much disdain some in positions of authority have for citizens
has been laid bare. While this almost certainly won’t affect policy while
Trump is still in office, the conversation is one that’s been started. It’s
something that we as a society have thrown on the pile of a crumbling
economy, a pandemic, rising unemployment, and a seemingly tone-deaf market
that ignores all of these things.
It’s also been made
clear that it’s up to the individual to protect themself. It’s something you have to do physically, but financially as
well.
We’re in the middle of
a perfect storm of uncertainty with no clue as to when or how it’s going to
end.
Keep your eyes open,
Ryan Stancil
Contributing Editor, Outsider Club |
No comments:
Post a Comment