Conservatives have nothing against incumbency when it is their people who are filling the slots. - Michael Parenti

The police confront dangers and social miseries of a kind most of us can only imagine. They deal with the waste products of a competitive corporate society: the ill-fed, the ill-housed, the desperate, and the defeated. The slums are not the problem, they are the solution; they are the way capitalism deals with the surplus people of a market economy. And for all they cost the taxpayer in crime, police and welfare, the slums remain a source of profit for certain speculators, arsonists, realtors, big merchants, and others.

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.