Attitudes like Mike Sylvester’s don’t happen in a vacuum. Sheriffs don’t suddenly “fail” unless there is a reason and a purpose for their failures.

Keeping the Pax Americana, and the nuclear monopoly of the US, Russia, and China (the only significant nuclear powers) plus a few followers on: India, Israel, France, and the UK required a political will that would give more power to arms manufacturers, defense workers, the military, and less to feminists, PC platitude spewers, Welfare workers, and so on.

It’s akin to why women loathe/hate guns. Despite the fact that guns give women the ability to deter violent attacks, they hate the fact that it also empowers their bitter, hated rivals, ordinary men. Most women would rather live lives of dangerous and deadly threats of physical violence without any recourse except begging and pleading than give average men the ability to stand up also to thugs. Because their “closest” enemy is ordinary men (with whom they are workplace/cultural rivals).

The SWPL yuppie class reflexively hates any military spending and finds it’s own power threatened. They’d rather have NYC, DC, Chicago, and Dallas all nuked out of existence and the US in some Vichy America, than spend a single penny on nuclear deterrence. Why? Because their real enemy is not Jihadists intent on annihilating themselves and millions of fellow Americans, but indeed, the ordinary Americans who are their rivals for power.

After all, if the highest goal of the society is to defend itself, who needs for example enforcers of PC sensibility? That’s way down on the list.