2020 Election

[Belsnickel]

(08-17-2020, 09:28 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I'm constantly intrigued by this notion.  People seem to forget that law enforcement and military are just people like themselves.  To assume they'd blindly follow a tyrant simply because of what they do for a living is odd to me.

I think if shit hit the fan we would see a split in LE and military just like we have in our society. You would probably see the largest portion just step away because they would not want anything to do with it. You'd have a portion that would back the tyrant and a portion that would fight against them. The big reason behind the way police and military are viewed stems from the leftist and libertarian points of view where they are tools of the state. The propaganda from the left is that they are "fascist tools of the bourgeois." From a libertarian point of view, police and military are a representation of the state holding more power than it should. These institutions stem from a conservative ideology of people giving up freedoms for the government to encourage order, so it's really just an ideological battle.

Now, pragmatically, it's obvious these institutions are necessary for a civil society. We must recognize that the people in these institutions are people and not just "tools." However, we need to insure that these institutions exist for the benefit of society and not for the detriment of it.