Taking Bets
As global capitalism enters its orgiastic death throes, our leaders know what is coming but they cannot or will not work to mitigate the damage (as it would amount to an admission of guilt), instead taking every precaution to preserve their own power and secure a future for themselves on the corpses of billions if not the planet itself. This is what we have been seeing for the last few decades as the War on Drugs and the War on Terror have been used as a pretext for panoptic levels of domestic surveillance/spying, the militarization of police forces and the domestic use of military forces, the criminalization and imprisonment of a disaffected minority class who would be sympathetic to a revolutionary movement, and various other implements of control.
Now we are seeing a deluge of anti-gun propaganda with more media focus on gun related violence than in previous years (violence is statistically on the downfall, what is more prevalent is the media actually covering such stories), as the elite class tries to remove obstacles to its survival. The more resistance to the state's attempt to deprive us of our right to self-defense, the more coverage of gun violence, and perhaps even more "incidents" to sway public opinion towards the disarmament of the citizenry. Within the next few years we will begin to see more examples of politically motivated violence, if not revolutionary violence, as the state becomes ever more repressive and prices begin to rise due to the decrease in the availability of oil. These attacks will come from both the right and left, but the focus will be on the right-wing violence as the "official" left-wing in this country long ago renounced the idea of violence as an agent of change. This does not mean however, that leftist violence will be treated any less harshly. This is what the elite class has been preparing for. They know the end of their power system is near and will only be maintained by massive amounts of violence directed towards those who would see it overthrown, for whatever reasons. They know the war is coming, they've been preparing, hell, waging it for years. "Our" side, or rather, those individuals and communities who have not been the subject of police violence for generations on end, do not even know there's a war on.
Hardly original thought, I just want to see if anyone wants to bet I'm wrong.
Now we are seeing a deluge of anti-gun propaganda with more media focus on gun related violence than in previous years (violence is statistically on the downfall, what is more prevalent is the media actually covering such stories), as the elite class tries to remove obstacles to its survival. The more resistance to the state's attempt to deprive us of our right to self-defense, the more coverage of gun violence, and perhaps even more "incidents" to sway public opinion towards the disarmament of the citizenry. Within the next few years we will begin to see more examples of politically motivated violence, if not revolutionary violence, as the state becomes ever more repressive and prices begin to rise due to the decrease in the availability of oil. These attacks will come from both the right and left, but the focus will be on the right-wing violence as the "official" left-wing in this country long ago renounced the idea of violence as an agent of change. This does not mean however, that leftist violence will be treated any less harshly. This is what the elite class has been preparing for. They know the end of their power system is near and will only be maintained by massive amounts of violence directed towards those who would see it overthrown, for whatever reasons. They know the war is coming, they've been preparing, hell, waging it for years. "Our" side, or rather, those individuals and communities who have not been the subject of police violence for generations on end, do not even know there's a war on.
Hardly original thought, I just want to see if anyone wants to bet I'm wrong.
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