Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. So, what about the
police?
Here is the crux of the matter. Many people claim that the
modern police force is outdated and flawed and corrupt and so forth, so it
needs to be defunded and/or changed. Pause.
What is the issue with that? (Not a problem, an issue). ‘Tis
that the police is a representation of a country as a political state, aka
entity. Any country, political-wise, consists of a government and a society, among
other things, but we are focusing on those two, for when a country’s government
and society do not get along, bad things happen. Cough.
…Yes, the U.S.’ current troubles have partially occurred because
of COVID-19, (real life sucks, see the disclaimer), but COVID-19 only
exacerbated them, made them worse, but did not create them outright. Yes, on a
personal level, many lives got changed because of COVID-19, but it can be
noticed that many countries, and governments, in the Old World do not appear to
be as bad as the U.S., or even Canada.
Canada, it should be noted, has its’ own problems with POCs
and WASPs and the rest, but somehow the issue there of defunding or changing
the police system does not appear to be surfacing in the news very often,
unlike the U.S., where it is for real. This makes suspect that whatever is
going on in Canada right now is just an imitation of the American issue, and a
rather superficial one instead. And, since we’re back talking about the United
States of America, let’s get back to that political entity, which has to deal
with at least two other issues that became influenced by its’ ‘civil unrest’:
COVID-19. And the matter of voting.
COVID-19 is obvious: no one can, or even willing, to guess,
as to how many people got sick by the coronavirus during the protest process,
as the self-isolation was dismantled and discarded by the protesters and the police.
How many of them got sick, will recover, will die? Somehow, no one is talking
about that, let alone raising an issue – and it is sad, for should you really
defund the police if its’ officers will catch the COVID-19 virus for real and
start to die-off or at least be hospitalized? One of a pandemic’s consequences
is a population crash, and if American population crashes, then abruptly the
issues of police just may not be as important anymore.
This brings us to the matter of voting. Right now, the RF is
having its’ own political issues – Putin and his cabinet are being accused of
messing with the RF’s, and especially Moscow’s, quarantine, so that people
could vote and annul the Constitution, or Putin’s previous reigns, or whatever.
The issue of how people will be able to vote and not get sick is one of the
central ones.
Well, back in the U.S., the Americans have a ‘voting by mail’
option, and it is controversial, because of course it is. Many people have many
issues with this…and then the public protests began, which brings us back to
the probable resurgence of COVID-19 in the States and the potential population
crash that can follow that resurgence.
Right now, the Donald is standing to lose the elections because
of public protests at last, but after over a week of them, those protests are
starting to transform into a call for governmental reform, or rather – its’
police aspect, (though as the toppled Confederation-related statues show, not
only that, maybe). Fair enough, but, again, if the COVID-19 pandemic reboots
and people once again begin to get sick for real, (and on all of the social
strata, too), then the entire hullaballoo might vanish, as people would no
longer be able to sustain the pressure through the sheer lack of healthy
populace…and the changed priorities too. Pause.
Now, ironically, today, I wanted to revisit rabbits, (insert
an appropriate populace joke here, see the ‘Zootopia’ movie for reference), but
after this today’s rant of mine, even I find it crude. Ergo, for now, this is
it. I will see you all soon instead!
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