Ya think it's easy?

“Who will guard the guardians? Take my word for it: It won’t be the police dogs.”

The idea of a “police force” is ancient. Rich people needed security, but poor people had nothing to secure. The middle class needed what it couldn’t pay for, and the rich, as always, wanted someone else to pay its way.

Enter the police under various names, with politics, ultimately, turning on that bargain: Essentially the middle class making sure it is getting what it is paying for.

That’s what is not happening now. The oligarchical class is seeking to subjugate the middle class, so it is consistently and overtly reneging on the policing bargain: Not only will no one police crooks, when the crooks turn on the taxpayers, it is the taxpayers who are punished.

How does that story end happily?

Christmas Brutality: Finding visibility, absolution and closure at the choo-choo train at the mall on New Year’s Eve.

Outside the mall:

Housing Wire: U.S. home prices hit 14-year high in October. Firearms sales peaked in November. I wonder if there’s a connection…

Liberty Unyielding: Murder rate rose by 37% in U.S. cities in 2020.

The Post Millennial: Antifa activists take over hotel near Seattle as owner begs authorities for help. Remember that surly old police chief who really knew how to knock heads when the moment called for it? Now you know enough to miss him, at least.

The Federalist: The Top Five Most Suppressed News Stories Of 2020.

Glenn Greenwald: The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump.

City Journal: The West Should Not Abandon Hong Kong.

Michael Walsh: A Perfect Storm Seeks Destruction of the US.