Description

Is the Paw Patrol an unintentional conservative utopia? What can the show tell us about how the political spectrum views the police, its purpose, and its funding.

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Bibliography and Further Reading

• How the regulations around tv shows as toy commercials were repealed in the Reagan administration
• How square dancing was popularized as a tool of white supremacy
• How EMTs are underpaid, overworked, and underrecognized
• About police officer Joe Crystal, shunned by police for trying to hold them accountable
• Wikipedia entry on the Blue Wall of Silence
• NYPD internal investigator called a "rat"
• Prosecutors don't like to prosecute cops
• Attorney General Letitia James plan for civilian oversight of the NYPD
• Police departments aren't largely being defunded
• Crime is rising in cities that did not defund their police the same as those that did
• How torture doesn't work
• About Abner Louima who was sodomized with a broken broomstick by the NYPD
• The great Forced Adversity video about the Punisher/Police Problem
• Some More News video about the Warrior Mentality training given to the police
• How congress buys equipment for the military that it doesn't want or need as pork barrel
• Study finding conservatives lack a sense of humor
• Last Week Tonight's video about Tucker Carlson and his lightly veiled fascism and even less well veiled white supremacy
• Edmund Burke and the origins of conservatism
• Conservatism defending the status quo
• The myth of meritocracy
• Book about how billionaires are funding the radical right: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
• On prison labor in America
• The Thought Slime video that covers the video where John Doyle says that conservatives aren't about equality, they're about hierarchy and natural law
• Police will tell you to obey them if you value your life
• Republicans legalizing the automative murder of protesters
• Poor people can't just get a better job
• Why conservatives are more punitive than liberals
• The penal system as slave labor