As it's becoming increasingly clear the FBI and police have partnered with the Proud Boys, we need to talk about the long and ugly history of the alliance between law enforcement and fascist groups in protecting white supremacy and the wealthy.
It was shocking to a lot of people to see police and paramilitary groups buddy up to each other during the BLM protests, but history shows these groups have the same interests and goals.
They work together for a common goal: protecting white supremacy and the economic system
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Revelations have shown that the Proud Boys and their leaders have been partnering with law enforcement, federal and local, in targeting "Antifa."
This is how it happens. The Right and law enforcement partner to take down possible reformers.
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To start, we have to go back to the 1790's, where the French Revolution inspired the start of British policing to stave off revolution.
The same people who led the police found paramilitary street gangs to intimidate, attack, and sabotage the Left.
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The purpose, of both the police and the street gangs, was to protect established power and wealth.
What's more, their members were often members of both the police force AND the paramilitary group. A trend that continues to this very day.
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The reason our law enforcement and military are full of white supremacists is because they are engaged in common cause.
The enforcement of law and order, as they are currently defined, is about suppressing reform and "protecting" society from people of color.
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There's a reason law enforcement fashions itself as a crusade for good against evil, a "Thin Blue Line" between society and criminal evil.
It's based in the history of white supremacy and the idea that Anglo Saxon culture is wholly and good.
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In America, we've seen this play out in extralegal ways, as law enforcement has helped paramilitary, fascist mobs lynch people of color, burn down their neighborhoods and businesses, and murder them in cold blood in the street.
It is a long, long partnership.
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The conspiracy theories we're dealing with now are also at the heart of the relationship as law enforcement and white supremacists believe they are "protecting" America from a major conspiracy and legitimize violence on the idea that foreign influences are destroying us.
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With Civil Rights, violent whites and law enforcement believed African Americans were unwitting agents of Communist plots.
They believed they were defending America from a terrorist conspiracy determined to destroy them.
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This paranoid mindset is why the FBI and law enforcement prosecuted Civil Rights figures like MLK.
They worked to undermine and destroy them, believing they were fighting a foreign plot. They used incredibly insidious means, including partnering with violent extremists.
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We continue to see the same paranoia and partnership between law enforcement and the fascistic Right play out to this very day.
The idea that BLM was a "Marxist" conspiracy is just an echo of past racist paranoia and saw them coming together to crush reformers.
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This is how an event like January 6th can take place even as law enforcement knows it's coming, how they were also involved in it.
Because the white supremacist paranoia pairs them with extremists in defending white supremacy and economic power.
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The problem isn't just that white supremacists have infiltrated law enforcement, both local and federal, it's that the two are inherently linked by ideology.
They have the same goals, same purpose, which is to destroy any and all challenges to the white supremacist system
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The most important story of the 2024 Election is going untold.
Kamala Harris isn’t just facing Donald Trump, JD Vance, and the GOP. She’s squaring off against fascist Tech billionaires using them as puppets to destroy democracy.
Vance becoming Trump’s VP pick was a political marriage between MAGA and Far Right Tech Fascism. They are now a front for Musk, Theil, and a generation of tech oligarchs who have been quite open about their desire to co-opt government for power and profit.
What is happening with the Tech Fascists is the same thing we’ve seen before. Industrialist always use their obscene wealth to corrupt government and then find authoritarian puppets to finish the job and multiply their power.
This is yet another chapter in a long, long story.
JD Vance is a historic piece of shit who sold out his family and people to make a buck and gain power. He’s in bed with techno-fascist billionaires and is one of the foremost advocates for a literal fascistic ideology that seeks to take MAGA to the next level of oppression.
It’s bad enough that Vance is such a colossal asshole and that his ideology is literally fascistic, but he is capable of taking the MAGA baton and turning it into a force the likes of which most have yet to even imagine.
Terrible, terrible day for the country.
If our media returns to fawning over Vance because they want to hate poor people, I’m going to lose my everloving mind.
This is serious, serious business. And we all got a whole lot less safe today.
For years MAGA has promoted a culture of violence and oppression.
Now, in the wake of the shooting, calls to lower the temperature disgustingly obscure that fact and also undermine the need to protect millions of Americans from authoritarianism.
This isn’t a “both sides” issue. One side has waged an authoritarian war on democracy predicated on violence. The other has said people deserve safety and dignity and shouldn’t be hunted and systematically erased.
This false equivalency is disgusting. And telling.
The Center in America has now revealed what it truly believes. Fighting authoritarianism is “ugly” and “dangerous.”
It’s much easier and more pleasant to wring hands and welcome the authoritarianism and make nice with it. The media and political class enjoys that privilege.
Absolutely disturbing but unsurprising that they’ve managed to equate a movement’s constant fearmongering and calls for literal violence and murder with people saying, hey, maybe this other side calling for literal violence and murder is dangerous.
I just want people to remember that the reason this environment is so charged is because 1. One group has spent years openly talking about carrying out a bloody, reactionary revolution and 2. There are literal human beings whose lives and fates are on the line.
When you say, “Hey, let’s all take it down a notch,” you’re spitting in the face of women, people of color, immigrants, gay and trans people.
The stakes are actually as high as they can be. But there is one side constantly pushing a bloody resolution.
Trump has used Christianity’s persecution complex and obsession with apocalyptic danger to his advantage, crediting imaginary battles between Good and Evil.
Now, they have a ready-made situation that will inflame those fears and necessitate more extremism.
The ground was prepared for the MAGA Cult when evangelicals merged with the GOP a half century ago. Now, Christian Nationalism and the MAGA Cult are logical evolutions of a religious-backed push for power.