the national guard being a federalized national police force
Yeah...I still don't believe it. Anything I've seen is they won't even be rounding up the illegals, just doing their paperwork and fingerprinting them. And they can get deployed to federal buildings like ICE centers and courthouses and "guard" them. But I will be massively shocked if we see a headline where some antifans attack a federal building and a guardsman ventilates them; I doubt they'll be issued ammo.
I know it didn't used to be like this because in 1970 the national guard shot student protesters at Kent State. Back then when there was unrest, you'd see the police deployed like a military unit and they'd just go to town with the batons; the process is the punishment indeed! And if that didn't work, the national guard could be deployed, and they'd have ammo and everything. I'm no expert in this stuff, I don't know if the reason it's not done anymore is Congress passed a law, or the Supreme Court made a decision that it was unconstitutional; or if doctrine just changed. If anyone does know, I'd be interested to hear!
The long and short of it though is that we just sort of gave up on the idea that law and order must be preserved, that people have a right to an orderly, peaceful society and public square. Rather, protesters have their rights, even when they turn into an unruly mob and inherently run cover for looters and worse. Or the rights of the accused outweigh the right to live in a city whose murder rate doesn't rival a war zone. But we clearly
used to have a different interpretation, because I know the national guard used to deploy on US soil with ammo in response to civil unrest.
Basically what I'm saying is you're dooming over the idea that we'll have back the exact commitment to law and order we had in living memory, and I think you're hopelessly optimistic for believing that.
BTW, TemuRetard, this is the kind of thing I'm thinking of when I concern myself with the silly notion that perhaps progress is not monotonic.
