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>>locopa+(OP)
I think bored cops are a much bigger threat to Democracy than most crime. It's ironic that the less crime and the more efficient policing the less free we become.

>>bjourn+nb
Indeed. I think people have been paying too much in taxes. Once tax revenue is diminished, all of this wasteful liberty-harming spending is supposed to correct itself. Regular workers don't have much of a choice in how much they pay, but businesses do.

>>OutOfH+qe
> Indeed. I think people have been paying too much in taxes. Once tax revenue is diminished, all of this wasteful liberty-harming spending is supposed to correct itself.

My friend, the only thing that's going to diminish is public services that actually help people. The police state is the primary state organ dedicated to protecting people with political power from the hoi polloi, it's the one thing that's never going to go away.

If the past few thousand years of history is any indication, these people will wring every last cent out of you to pay a professional warrior class that will protect them from you.

>>vkou+cj
Oh you're not wrong at all, but the police state can conceivably be much weaker, as I have seen it to be in various other countries, where the police mostly only affect people who're actually a harm to those in power, not bothering with enforcing stupid laws like anti-abortion laws. If I am not mistaken, the rich people with power don't really have that much to gain with anti-abortion laws, at least not in the short term. So yes, the police are not going away, nor should they, but even in the pessimistic case, they merit alignment with what actually preserves the rich and powerful. The US is a special case where anti-abortion laws are used as a means to get and maintain some votes, but I foresee it as slowly coming closer to the global median.