Thread by @Cobretata

If Democrats take power, you WILL be forced to pay reparations before the end of Biden's first term - and the Abolish the Police Party will gleefully inform you that resistance will lead to fines, imprisonment, and ultimately death at the hands of law enforcement officers.

California's announcement of "serious studies" for reparations bills is a clear harbinger of things to come. Bad ideas from California reliably infect the rest of the country when Dems have the White House and Congress.

The Left is VERY serious about reparations. It's not a fringe idea for them at all. It's very much in the status of "something we need to figure out how to do without provoking massive public outrage." There is no serious intellectual argument against it on the Left.

If Dems take total power in November, they will absolutely be expected to move on a reparations bill by their racial grievance constituency. The only question is how big and sweeping the bill is, and how much of it can be disguised as merely a new set of welfare programs.

If Dems don't have the entire central government under control in 2021, you'll see states like California moving on reparations and attempting to intimidate first other states, and then the federal government, into following suit.

If Dems do well in November, political violence will have been legitimized in the United States, and it will be used to push reparations. Imagine the riots if, say, California imposes a reparations bill but other states and the federal government do not.

Your only chance of stopping this process is for Democrats to have such an "unexpectedly" bad election that they back away from compulsive politics, political violence, and issues that would likely provoke a civil war they think they might lose.

If the Dems have total power, the pressure on them to follow the Obamacare model - grab more power right now, force through measures that change the electorate and reshape society, take a few short-term political hits for long term gain - will be overwhelming.

The power players on the hard Left will NEVER allow the Democrats to "squander" that opportunity by failing to push through everything they've ever dreamed of. Nothing will be too radical, especially if it establishes new sources of political power.

And that's what reparations would be - an unending source of strife, grievance, and racial animosity that can be tapped for political power indefinitely. It's a well of hatred and resentment that will never run dry, a spigot into the public treasury that will never be closed.

Forever afterward, every enemy of the Left will be vilified as a racist who wants to "take your reparations away," just as they currently vilify critics of Obamacare as greedy sadists who want to "take your health care away." We'll never be allowed to talk about "going back."

And since reparations won't actually "solve" any problems, they'll be used as a bludgeon to demand more money and obedience from the middle class. It will be all YOUR fault that reparations didn't work. "Systemic racism" must be worse than ever, if reparations didn't help!

And with collective guilt for past sins now enshrined in American law as a punishable offense, more prosecutions will be quickly forthcoming. Every grievance group will want its reparations, and not just racial ones. That future is not difficult to imagine. /end