Bubbles From My Soapbox

 

I haven’t stepped into the whole police brutality thing, but after watching repeated murders committed live on video where cops are doing the murdering, here is where I am.  I think being a policeman is one of the hardest jobs on the planet. I sure as hell couldn’t do it, but if they can’t handle it, then they need to change professions.  Working in the circus shoveling animal shit comes to mind. I hear people say they think that there are only a few bad apples. I thought that too, but now I think the whole damn orchard is rotten. Yes, there are some good policemen, not sure how many, but the problem is their silence puts them in with the bad ones. So what happens is that all of them seem bad. I get it that it is hard for them to say something against their fellow officers, but if they haven’t got the balls to stand up for what’s right, then they don’t need to be in that job.

I am all for peaceful protest because this situation needs as much attention as we can bring.  It is clearly time to address the racist brutality that has plagued our police force and other positions of power.  I believe the inherent problem is that the job of a policeman attracts too many of the wrong people to it. Racist and bullies find police work a good environment to commit these kinds of acts and offenses and should be fixed from the inside where it lives. 

I am certainly not smart enough to know how to solve this problem, but I do have some ideas.  First of all, I think more intense and thorough physiological testing should be done to weed out the wrong people. I know that for smaller communities there is not a lot of testing for hiring police. They don’t have the funds or manpower for such things, but I think that a national data base should be set up so that police who have been fired or were written up for bad behavior can’t get another job in a different city or state.  I believe once a bad cop, always a bad cop.

I also think it is unfair to send police into situations they are not trained to handle.  I believe professional mental health care workers should be used in most domestic situations, not the police. As a kid growing up, I always thought the police were the good guys, that has changed for me.  I still have the absolute upmost respect for the law and damn little for cops. 

  

 

 

Here is something I just can’t wrap my head around. I keep seeing surveys where President Dumbass has a high approval rating on the economy.  Not only are we headed toward a major depression, and were even before the pandemic, but he is a bonehead who went bankrupt in every business he ever attempted.  The man went bankrupt running a casino….A Freaking CASINO.

I am truly tired of the media and too many people acting like Wall Street represents the economy.  It is main street that represents what is really happening with the economy.  92% of all the stock is owned by 10% of population.  How is this an indicator of how the average American pays the rent or puts food on the table?

Stay tuned for future adventures.