what if that's the plan?

"protest politics and web-based outrag may send signals to the ruling elites, but these strategies exert no effective pressure. no matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches or in targeted direct actions, they cannot put thier hands on the real flows of power, because they do not help to produce it. they only consume."____" restrained aggression keeps people suspicious of collective action and working hard to overcome their fellows, while constant, generalized anxiety keeps people servile, unwilling to take risks, and yearning for comfort from whatever quarter, whether the dulling sameness of herd thought or the dumb security of consumer goods. since at least september 11, 2001, people in the united states have been subject to an unprecedented terror campaign, not from al qaeda, but from the united states government. national domestic policy transformed "security" into constant fear, threatening its citizens at every turn:first with alarms of explosions and anthrax, then with prison, austerity-produced structural unemployment, and harassment, and finally with torture, swat tanks, snipers, drones, and total surveillance." roy scranton. learning to die in the anthropocene.___________________________________so, is minneapolis sending signals...no doubt...however what if civil unrest is part of the plan that reaches beyond the "undocumented"...what if they are looking for pretexts...acting as agent provocateurs in order to engender rationalizations for martial law and rule ( even moreso than executive orders ) by decree? democracy ( if it ever actually existed ) seems to be headed for extinction and the process didn't start in 2025 or 2017...it might go back to the ludlow massacre or the railroad strike of 1877 or shay's rebellion and the government response to ( or initiation of ) those events...it's an old playbook with any number of old players...the government says there are "hundreds more" ice agents headed to minnesota which won't do anything but exacerbate tensions and lead to more clashes...then there is the threat of ice going "door to door"...more tension...more confrontation on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis ( although one suspects the more affluent neighborhoods will be exempt )...one thing i do not see is much of any mention of military involvement since los angeles...they may have distanced themselves from a domestic agenda and acquiesced to it and are, perhaps, preoccupied with events in the caribbean and possibly preparing for a quick sortie into greenland...which would put an end to nato...another plank in the maga platform since not supporting it would leave that much more money in the public purse to be extracted by the elite through tax cuts and cost-plus overrun government contracts...elites are averse to civil unrest...it gets in the way of consumption and the orderly upward redistribution of weath that entails...they also purport to be disinclined to creating "big government", much less the "deep state"...of course hypocrisy is a common weapon of power.