Utterly insane

Every country with a large standing army devolves into violence, you increase the national guard while decreasing the police, the guard will just turn into the police.

Capitalism is the problem here, it has only perverse incentives and its core is exploitation.

The problem you run into, once you've destroyed your society, is that the only way to reduce violence is to unilaterally reduce state violence and increase public services - all the state funding is in the production of violence, and the people you're trying to take that money away from are the state authorized purveyors of violence, so, good luck taking their weapons away.

Every study says that arming police increases local violence. Increasing police presence increases arrests, which leads to fines, trouble getting work, loss of work and home, distruption of families, and further crime.

You have to convince people, in a broken, violent society, to trust each other, and lay down their arms.

I don't believe that can be done in America. America is a white plurality hell-bent on killing or subjugating everyone else, and everyone else desperate to avoid that fate, angry, and rightly paranoid.

I can't see how this society will survive coming decades, as continued erosion of community and destruction of family, the continuous expansion of the largest Gulag/slavery apparatus in human history, heightened fears and paranoia, increasing "shortages", interruptions, lowering wages and inflation, more violent police and private security . .. it will create a death spiral until, at last, the violence of the oppressors becomes so great the entire thing lights up, a conflagration setting out sparks of insurgencies throughout the country.

As my mentor said to me in 2005 "If you want to know the future of the US of A, look to what we've done in Iraq."

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