American cops are on a dangerous power trip

[dreamnightwind]

43. The move towards a police state has been a consequence

of the government moving towards representing the wishes of the rich corporations rather than the people.

As the government gets less and less legitimate as a servant of the people (see the Pickety study, policy no longer happens in response to the people's needs, only to the needs of the 1%), it keeps its illegitimate power unchallenged in several ways.

One of these ways is to make sure we have zero or very few candidates for office who are not captured by campaign donations from the 1%, and the strings that come with those "donations". They don't challenge the military, the police, the financial overlords, or the extraction industries, or they pay the consequences.

Another is the state developed a strong-arm police force to put down insurrection, a boot stamping on the faces of the poor and the disgrutled, per Orwell. It's here, folks.