I had an enlightening conversation with my boss today, who has been a professional class middle manager all his adult life. White to boot.

We were talking about all the ways Dems and the Biden admin have either directly inflated the security state or passively allowed it to become inflated. His take wasn't that these things weren't happening, but that they were all perfectly reasonable. He had a just-so explanation for why everything Biden and Co. are doing in that regard is good, actually.

It hit me like a lightning bolt that he really couldn't see past his own class interests and perspectives. Not even he didn't want to, he couldn't. He's spent his whole life as a part of a class that the security state generally protects, so the idea that it could be used to hurt people that didn't "deserve" it was just... unfathomable.