Mutually Assured Law Enforcement Destruction

When Politics Leaves Reality Behind

Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The traditional left–right political spectrum no longer captures the forces driving division in America today. That model works when we’re dealing with competing ideologies and when ideological disagreement is the primary driver of division in society. But today, we face something more destabilizing: a profound rupture in shared reality. Large segments of the population have become so deeply im…

Mutually Assured Law Enforcement Destruction

Both sides of America's fraught political divide must come to accept a Cold War-era paradigm of mutually assured destruction.