Terry Flynn
I think your experience may be generalisable, though I’d like to give a counter example (Nottm) that illustrate how massive reform can and has led to amazing improvement. I was the “responsible adult” asked by police to represent an alcoholic relative who claimed he had committed murder. The Chief Constable took this seriously enough to mobilise most of the local force – on a Saturday night at midnight.
Whilst waiting for relative to sober up in a cell I chatted to a female Detective Constable going for promotion to Sergeant. She’d had back injury from a suspect which hadn’t settled. As someone with slipped disc I sympathised and we chatted a lot about her job. I wouldn’t have changed places for anything. Her male boss (DS) was equally nice. My dad had previously had an equally sympathetic engagement with local police – better than local social services – for this relative. Twas all sorted in the end. Personally if I were them I’d have charged this r
We go to war with “West Vietnam” again, imagine all heck breaking loose. The headlines write themselves!
Dftbs
Re: Biden’s China trade policy in the SCMP. I’m incredibly doubtful of the honest desire the Democrats would have to repatriate manufacturing, and honestly I am doubtful of theirs, or any one’s, ability to do so.
I agree that it reads as smart politics to say you’ll shift the balance of power away from wall st. But unfortunately for the Biden administration, this would undercut the other ambitious goals they have for the country.
An earlier post on this blog(Hudson 2/6) accurately described how the current monetary system which allows for the projection of American power arose and is supported by the structural deficit in the balance of payment as well as the crushing of labor power.