- Jan 8, 2011
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Do you think nothing should change? Just continue the status quo.Abolishing a faulty system as we know it, and revising it or replacing it, is not anarchist?I'm plugged in to reality....So now you think Justine Amash' s plan is not a good one, because Democrats agreed with it?His suggestions are in the democratic plan announced this morning, for the most part.End qualified immunity.
End civil asset forfeiture.
End the drug war.
End overcriminalization.
End no-knock warrants.
End militarization of police.
End mandatory minimums.
From Justin Amash. Problem is in our terribly corrupt nation, it has no chance of happening.
Freedom and justice for all...LMFAO!
It's a fucked up world where libertarians are our guiding light
It wasn't that long ago Ron Paul wanted us to go back to pre reconstruction America so people could have local apartheid schemes and theocracies. Although granted he had some rational policies mixed in there.
Now we got Amash being more rational than anyone on the left
Am i getting old?
I don't think so....but maybe
I just listened to a podcast with ezra klein describing how we should abolish prisons...With the rationale being "we don't do a good job locking up all criminals equally, thus it's unfair, and we should abolish teh institution"
If it hasn't made it into the platform yet, it will
Vox is about as centrist as it gets.....Everyone is cowed by the evils we have done to black AMerica. And now we're gonna get some very irrational policy response because no one on the left has the stones to tell anyone lower than them on the intersectional* hierarchy no
WHOOOOOSH
I'm saying that even if the platform put out by pelosi is rational today
it won't be tomorrow
which is why Amash is putting what looks like something a democrat would support today
Why the fuck do you think he put this out there/ Because he knows Democrats have moved away from it.
He can feel it in the air same as me.
I don't know how plugged into elite liberal thinking you are. But clearly you haven't been keeping up the last couple weeks.
And no one is going to abolish the police... just won't ever happen, regardless of what some in congress spout as attention getters, the Amash plan is good, thus the democratic proposal is good, which matches his plan. Private prisons should be abolished and go back to the states....The private plan relies on more being imprisoned, to make money off of it.
Oh they might try
They will quickly put in something by a different name, but they'll try.
Common request from PoC
We really hate police, for good reason.
And i'll take that as you ahve no fucking idea what democratic elites and talking heads are discussing.
"look at the platform"
As every major liberal outlet is discussing abolishing basic institutions of american governance....It's an anarchists position of course it's not sustainable.
so abolish police and replace them with...police?