Will The Military Become The Police? - 12

2300 Children Under Trump's Guns

I. Background

In this series (began 5/10/10) we (regular readers and I) have been contemplating what some consider to be "over-the-top ideas" or "fringe notions" of past, current, and looming misuses of the military (Will The Military Become The Police?, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).

Yet, in the previous post I answered the question this series posits ("Will The Military Become The Police?") as follows:

No, they won't.

Why?

They already are, aren't they (What if U.S. stops policing the world?, The United States Must Be the World’s Policeman) ?

(Will The Military Become The Police? - 11). I answered "no" in terms of will the military become (future tense) the world police, because they already have (it is historical, not futuristic).

II. "Say It Ain't So"

Furthermore, in a limited sense it has already happened domestically to the degree that the literal military police, in the recent past, have even been used to give traffic tickets (Will The Military Become The Police? - 2).

But there is the larger domestic realm to consider, in terms of sniffing out "why are police forces all across the country being built up, by the Pentagon, with military hardware?"

That has been well documented in this series (Will The Military Become The Police? - 10).

III. Happy Halloween?

For those who never "sniff the air" such a concept must be simply "halloweenish."

And it is "halloweenish" in the sense that Halloween keeps coming back every year, like tyranny does (On The Origin of Tyranny).

IV. Tyranny of The Despotic Minority

At a time when Americans are being gunned down and bombed, preznit Donnah Dump is sending in the military to police a place where nothing like that is happening.

The decent majority wonders why the leader of the despotic minority is sending the military to police a band of refugees who have fled authoritarian regimes to answer the call written on the Statue of Liberty:

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

(What is the quote on the statue of liberty?). The language on the statue does not indicate that the reason for bringing the downtrodden here is so the military can treat them like enemies, break up families, and drive innocent children into psychotic despair (2,300 migrant children in Central American ‘caravan’ need protection, UNICEF says).

The reason, IMO, is that preznit Donnah Dump, as leader of the despotic minority, needs despotic votes bigly in order to perpetuate the tyranny of his despotic minority:

"In the Study Toynbee examined the rise and fall of 26 civilizations in the course of human history, and he concluded that they rose by responding successfully to challenges under the leadership of creative minorities composed of elite leaders. Civilizations declined when their leaders stopped responding creatively, and the civilizations then sank owing to the sins of nationalism, militarism, and the tyranny of a despotic minority."

(How To Identify The Despotic Minority - 4). Those who now give him the votes are the despotic minority in what was once a united country.

V. Conclusion

Concerning those now in the despotic minority who have been voted into power in the DC swamp, only if they are voted out of office by the American Majority will the nation progress as it has under duress in the past.

Make it so.

The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.

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