Please try your fellow forum users with respect.
No you want Chamberlainian appeasement in the vain hopes the same people who created the problems will magically make it better of their own volition. At some point you have to figure out reform and change happen when the current regime is forced to implement reform upon existential threat, and this Aaron Sorkin masturbatory fantasy of politicians simply seeing the light and changing when shown facts and figures is useful idiot porn, and has as much relation to actual politics as actual porn has to sex. After the past four months that distinction damn well ought be so clear as to be undeniable to even the most brain-dead liberal, yet here we are all the same dealing with the climate change denial of criminal justice reform.I want realistic results now and not some wild fantasy that isn't going to help us or help anyone now or in the future.
No, I am insulting you for burying your head in the sand and cleaving to fantasies of voluntary reform on the part of police, police unions, unelected bureaucrats, appointed justices, and elected officials up to and including the presidency. You like to claim you want to save anyone at any time, but the rank truth you need to confront is you're not saving a damn person, nor or later, not as long as you're buying into lies and promises of "reform" -- when those same "reforms" are the cause of the current problems we now face.You want to insult me for being realistic here and wanting to actually save people NOW and make their lives better now and have actual realistic plans to do so that have a measurable direct cause and effect. You just promote a fantasy.
That's the delusion, here. You're the one harboring it, and no I won't give that delusion, or you, an iota of respect for cleaving to it. Because you're engaging in denialism and apologia.
You already do, for chrissake. This is the Gilded Age 2.0, period, end of story. The militas, gangs, and cartels are on Wall Street and K Street. If nothing else get that through your thick goddamn skull....no one is going to revolt and eliminate the police and go live under militia/gang /cartel rule, nor do people want to.
There are no viable or workable solutions on the table. Because the policies being marketed as "solutions" are the causes of the problems. Cut the Orwellian gaslighting bullshit....instead of work to find actual viable workable solutions you can get actual support on?
US went through that phase once, when the Mafia ran the political machines and most key operations and businesses in the country. Worked pretty fuckin' well actually, considering that time coincided with the greatest period of uninterrupted economic growth and prosperity in American, if not global, history, which by amazing coincidence also happened to be the greatest period of labor rights and organizational power. You can thank the mob for Pax Americana. Ain't exactly coincidence the cracks started to show and the country started slipping down the drain from the point Bobby Kennedy started bird-dogging the mob.Living under cartel rule sucks btw, I have no idea why you think this is some great solution.
Okay, here we go.Mexico's poverty rate is INSANE. There is a reason why most people are actually opposed to that. It is terrible.
Mexican Gini coefficient:
By comparison, US Gini coefficient:
Mexican indexed GDP:
Mexico Economic Growth 1960-2023
GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and...
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Mexican raw GDP:
Mexico GDP 1960-2023
GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and...
www.macrotrends.net
Mexican poverty rate:
Mexico Poverty Rate 1989-2023
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.
www.macrotrends.net
Most that I've heard peg the midpoint of Calderon's presidency, definitely Nieto's, as the real beginning of cartel rule in Mexico. Funny how after nearly twenty years of promised rapid economic growth and reform post-NAFTA, from Salinas to Calderon under the dubious stewardship of Coca-Cola and Chase Manhattan, the best was a short-term boom from US corporations shorting the Mexican economy, followed by middling improvement if not stagnation. Then the cartels took over, shit started getting done, and key economic performance indicators started trending upwards; funny how that worked out.
Far be it for me to suggest anything similar be done in the US, but I wonder if perhaps the prospect of being unceremoniously and tortuously beheaded in a ditch was a motivator for Mexican bureaucrats to do their goddamned job rather than kowtow to Wall Street gringos for cookies and head-pats.
As opposed to here in the US where it's considered sacrosanct and corporations would never treat human life as disposable numbers with affixed, usurious values that only exist to buffer profit?Where human life is worth nothing for the insanely violent drug cartels.
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