General Discussion

(in the words of James Madison) "to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority."

Note that the militarization of the police is occurring in parallel with the rise of an "opulent minority" of hereditary oligarchs. This is not a coincidence.

The current game seems to involve playing the fears and resentments of black people that are held by many whites, particularly those of the lower socioeconomic strata, so that they will accept the proverbial iron fist as being in their own interest. The Bearcats and rubber bullets are there to protect them from the dark-skinned horde.

It has always been in the interest of the rich to keep the commoner divided among themselves. J.P Morgan put it very bluntly when he said that he could alway hire half of the lower class to kill off the other half.