Comment by tptacek
4 months ago
No. Roughly half our community wanted to keep the cameras. And we're as blue/progressive as it gets. Whatever else it is, it isn't "a red line".
That is not the same thing as me saying I think the cameras were a good tradeoff.
The wealthy people keep the poor down, then having this subpopulation that acts in messed up ways causes crime, which causes the wealthy to accept things like surveillance to "protect themselves" and continually cedes to more authoritarian policies. The middle class is the social base of fascism.
The way out is to turn on the rich and produce a more economically equal society.