The Harris pick is the sound of screeching tires as Democrats try to slam the brakes on Abolish the Police. Don't fall for it. Harris is just another Dem who sees the police as a political instrument, not protectors with a duty to the public.
There's nothing funnier than watching Dem apologists scramble to claim Abolish the Police is dead with the Harris pick, because there's supposedly no way to criticize Kamala the Cop as both an authoritarian and soft on crime - as if those were contradictions!
"Authoritarian but soft on crime" is the DEFINITION of anarcho-tyranny, the guiding principle of current left-wing politics. The most vocal members of the Abolish the Police chorus are far-left radicals who have HUGE plans for using compulsive force against American citizens.
Their vision is: no police, but enforcers everywhere. They aren't interested in funding police forces with an impartial duty to protect the public - they see THAT kind of cop as a racist defender of white middle-class privilege. "Justice" is a fuzzy concept on the streets.
But the hard Left is very interested in using law enforcement power to impose its vision of "justice" against the hated middle class. The party that currently wants to Abolish the Police was enthusiastically raising an army of IRS agents to enforce Obamacare a decade ago.
This is no logical or intellectual contradiction at all to the Left. Their plans for America involve massive amounts of compulsive force. Armed agents will be needed to enforce their laws. They're prone to fantasizing about hateful resisters getting killed by law enforcement.
Do not for a moment believe "resistance" will be romanticized or encouraged once the Left is in power. That's a LARP they only play when they lose elections. Resistance to THEM will be ruthlessly crushed. Charges of treason and sedition will fly freely.
It rarely requires physical force to crush working people, especially when those people have been aggressively miseducated and demoralized to hate themselves and feel like they deserve punishment for social crimes. But deadly force WILL be on the table for determined resisters.
Force will, however, be swept OFF the table for the Left's militias and preferred constituencies. They're not going to crack down on street crime, or riots by groups they think are entitled to riot. They'll never stop looking at violent criminals as victims of society.
But those same people absolutely DO think white middle-class Americans are criminals who should be aggressively punished for their generations-long rap sheet of social evils. They say it very loudly, every chance they get. How can anyone claim not to hear them?
There's no conflict or inconsistency at all between Abolish the Police and the compulsory left-wing super State. When they talk about "law enforcement," they mean enforcing THEIR policies against YOU. The enforcers are usually wearing suits and carrying briefcases.
Street crime can be useful to the authoritarian super-State, because it keeps the people nervous, fearful of each other, and dependent on the government for protection. Lefties use soaring crime rates to demand more social spending, not more beat cops and prisons.
Come on, people - RIGHT NOW you're watching prisons emptied of violent offenders at the same time the nanny statists can't wait to throw people in jail for violating coronavirus restrictions. How can anyone seriously think statism is inconsistent with Abolish the Police? /end
