Comment by mosura
10 days ago
No, they merely complain when it is deployed against them, as with ICE.
Otherwise Waco would be a rallying cry of the US left, and it isn’t.
10 days ago
No, they merely complain when it is deployed against them, as with ICE.
Otherwise Waco would be a rallying cry of the US left, and it isn’t.
From "a problem" to "rallying cry" is a pretty neat goalpost move.
Leftists have long warned that expansions of government power (in general) and police militarization (specifically) are most likely to be eventually used against leftists.
Modern leftists are definitionally promoting expansion of government power - it is a core consequence of their beliefs.
The late Murray Bookchin was the exception that proves the rule, and he was hardly popular or widely known, and made some astonishingly prescient interviews before he died about the direction it was all headed in.
> Modern leftists are definitionally promoting expansion of government power…
Care to name a specific example?
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