Hippie Cops?
by digby
If there is one thing that I thought would never change it was the symbiotic relationship between the conservative and the concept of “law and order.” I’m sure I’ve never seen a police derided as common rabble by the modern Republicans. They’ve been accused of corruption maybe — but members of the enemy tribe? I don’t think so.
So this is quite stunning:
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This class war is creating some very interesting challenges to the usual affiliations of the two parties, especially on the conservative side. Sure, some otherwise Democratic Wall Streeters might be defecting out of pecuniary self-interest, but that’s not unusual. They back both sides. (And how many of there are there? )
But cops? That’s a fundamental change in identity. But between the insistence that every drunk and nutcase should be allowed to carry automatic weapons anywhere they go and this new attack on their ability to negotiate decent wages and benefits, maybe they are seeing that these so-called
law and order types are really just a bunch of thugs.
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