Reply #18: You're insanely over-generalizing here and engaging in epicly [View All]

[coalition_unwilling]

shallow analysis to boot.

Here's the best test for determining whether you or anyone else is in the 99%. Do you or they drive yourself or themselves to work? If you answered yes, then you are in the 99%. Why? Because the 1% hire people to drive them (their 'drivers' or 'chauffeurs').

Most cops do not have 'drivers'. Most cops drive themselves to work.

It is true that many cops are little better than lackies and lickspittles for the ruling class and that, furthermore, the profession may attract more than its share of socio- and psychopaths. But even granted those truths, cops are still part of the 99%.

So, you ask, if that is true, why don't the cops support us? I think the best answer for that might derive from V.I. Lenin's distinction between a "class in itself" and a "class for itself" (meaning a class that is fully aware of its class status and role in the class struggle).

You can bet the ruling class is casting nervous glances at the police (and any private security forces it hires) for signs that the police's loyalties are in play. Because the minute the police join our side en masse, it's game over for the ruling class.

I know what I'm fighting against and what I'm fighting for. My fight is not with cops, my fight is with capitalism and the extreme concentrations of wealth it promulgates.