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Might take more than that, if the police also control the vote counting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba
by brimble 5y ago
Might take more than that, if the police also control the vote counting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)
- not2b 5y agoYes, that's pretty much the plan in many states: take control of elections away from locals (especially locals who tend to vote for the other party) and give the power to the (gerrymandered) state legislature. People don't want to pay taxes, and if the anti-tax people also want local services, they have the police raise the revenue by preying on out-of-towners and people without connections. But even without election-fixing, this kind of thing persists in some towns because the cops focus their enforcement on out-of-towners. Locals get a free lunch: services they don't have to pay for.
- snowgrove 5y agoHistory and the Constitution provide for a solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)
- brimble 5y agoI go back and forth about whether a lot more stories featuring "...and then the aggrieved raided the National Guard armory..." would be a good or a bad thing, in our modern political climate. I mean, the same thing was attempted in the Tulsa massacre, by people who also thought they were the "good guys", and that whole thing was... less good.