JOGGING WHILE BLACK

[rothschild]

Not the social activists I know. I get what you are saying. Wildfires have been happening for 100 years too-should I not mention any new ones that happen?

Wildfires are necessary for healthy ecosystems, so maybe not a great analogy.

Policing is ostensibly about crime reduction, but crime is directly related to economic disparity. Police reform in the absence of economic reform, IMO, is counterintuitive. None of the name brand SJ activists talk about the relationship between extreme concentrations of wealth and the quality of life for those who don't belong to the billionaire's club. None of them. In the absence of radical economic reform, police reform merely emboldens those predisposed to violence, which is precisely what is happening in cities all across America, where violent crime is skyrocketing -- which worsens the living conditions of the very people that are supposed to benefit from police reform.

This is why I gave up on liberalism 35 years ago. The policies that are enacted are always counterproductive regarding quality of life -- which is not to say that republicanism is an adequate alternative, because it isn't. Both are deficient when it comes to serving the general interests of society, i.e., policies that benefit the 99%. Criminally deficient.