Jumping off your point about people who didn't experience the 1990s "crime wave" directly (and thus know why there was an increased policing reaction) -- this is often why I dig back into history with respect to why, say, public pensions should be pre-funded.
It helps to realize historical policy choices were driven by specific circumstances...and that sometimes they learned some very important lessons that are longer-lived.
Baltimore, mid 1990s. I had "the club" AND a sign genuinely pointing out that my car had no radio to steal. On the flip side, I bought a condo close to the inner harbor for $67k
"There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now."
We used to have witch-hunting, moralistic zealots that saw nothing inconsistent to promoting disunity by using an ideology of unity, in alliance with Big Business.
What we have these days is real progress-- witch-hunting, moralistic zealots that see nothing inconsistent to promoting disunity by using an ideology of unity, in alliance with Big Business. The difference is, they used to be Republican and ostensibly religious, and now they are Democratic and ostensibly secular. They're not against alienating Americans from one another. They're just insisting that they're the ones who get to do it, not alleged "racists" (read, sinners, apostates or heretics). You really thought that was going to fade as an issue?
Jumping off your point about people who didn't experience the 1990s "crime wave" directly (and thus know why there was an increased policing reaction) -- this is often why I dig back into history with respect to why, say, public pensions should be pre-funded.
It helps to realize historical policy choices were driven by specific circumstances...and that sometimes they learned some very important lessons that are longer-lived.
Baltimore, mid 1990s. I had "the club" AND a sign genuinely pointing out that my car had no radio to steal. On the flip side, I bought a condo close to the inner harbor for $67k
"There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now."
We used to have witch-hunting, moralistic zealots that saw nothing inconsistent to promoting disunity by using an ideology of unity, in alliance with Big Business.
What we have these days is real progress-- witch-hunting, moralistic zealots that see nothing inconsistent to promoting disunity by using an ideology of unity, in alliance with Big Business. The difference is, they used to be Republican and ostensibly religious, and now they are Democratic and ostensibly secular. They're not against alienating Americans from one another. They're just insisting that they're the ones who get to do it, not alleged "racists" (read, sinners, apostates or heretics). You really thought that was going to fade as an issue?