vote :amerikkka-clap: more :amerikkka-clap:
I honestly am sympathetic to this persons point of view, but it's so idealistic to think you can have a democracy when wealth is so m unevenly distributed and all media is owned by millionaires and billionaires
i think rural entryism could work in a limited capacity. My grandparents' town had like three cops and if a comrade became one of them that would go a lot further than one dork trying to reform an actual city PD from within.
a secret leftist county sheriff isn't going to kickstart the revolution but maybe you can halt evictions and kill some white supremacist militia types.
I'm thinking about it more through a post-revolutionary lens, like in a dictatorship of the proletariat the workers hopefully would democratically decide on an enforcement arm to go clean up the cappies. Like in theory there's nothing wrong about their conception, just that democracy is currently impossible.
American cops have literally invented entire conspiracies about their persecution leading to them all being in constant danger, which in turn makes them even more unhinged and violent, and this person thinks that they will ever back down if someone with a marginally higher rank than them tells them to? Legit the only way to reform american policing is :dorner: it down and start over.
Fuck's sake, isn't this discussion at least partly born out of that article about the sheriffs who have just decided that they have the authority to disregard any instruction they perceive as unconstitutional? Which would technically place them as the final arbiter of all things legal, which sidesteps the entire democratic proces and those precious institutions that the libs seem to care about.
Could you imagine how much better things would be if we gave the cop manager MORE power?
Do they not already have the power to kick down the door of a McDonald's and pepper spray and taze the manager for committing wage theft? I assumed they already did but they just chose not to
They totally could if they wanted to. Any owner of a McDonald’s franchise is definitely committing enough crimes to be dragged out on the pavement if they chose to do it.
I kinda feel like the biggest flaw is that copa are usually the ones running for sheriff. So if an anti-cop/capitalist were to run for sheriff they'd have to deal with every cop in their county knowing exactly who they are and what car they drive whenever they're driving/walking/existing in the place they live.
And even if you do get elected I can't see cops arresting their small business tyrant friends for exploiting their employees. At best you get elected and nothing changes, at mid you face constant harassment, at worst you or your loved ones get murdered for ”resisting arrest” and never get elected. Unless you live in some sleepy county where people don't even look at their ballots it's not worth it
Sheriffs need to be physically eliminated as a political position
the Sheriff will help us fight wage theft.
Derived from Shire Reeve, e.g. the peasant whose job is to keep the other peasants in check.
:doubt:
On a related note: I think it's funny that the Americans have literal sheriffs but act like there's social mobility.
Maybe the sheriff can even arrest the President for war crimes! I think I just solved how to get world peace 😌
I suppose you also voted for the prosecutor, the judge, and the jury so that when your elected sherriff drags the local Ford dealership owner to court for wage theft everyone doesn't just dismiss the case outright and laugh you out of the courthouse.
Oh, uh and higher court shit for after Ford Dealership owner appeals the case in the unlikely event the first case lands.
If a leftist org got large enough to sway the vote for any of those things, those positions would all be replaced by appointees. Generally that's the pattern with Americans - white people elect sheriffs, everyone else gets police departments.
Yeah the sheriffs aren't a power structure in a vacuum disconnected from the rest of the US legal system and it's bizarre to me how far people go with this delusion
the wage theft they'd target is when employees get money. that's the real wage theft, amirite?
