I work in the marketing industry in NYC. I go into the city about 2x weekly. As part of my commute I pass through some Port Authority, followed by Subway.
Sometimes, things are bad. The subway will have track problems, heat and anger swell underground, and there’s a genuine aura of tension and despair that becomes palpable and suffocating underground.
And then I notice that on the next day, these problems might get rapidly better….albeit with a noticeable uptick in armed police and National Guardsmen.
I feel—and to be clear, this is based on subjective feeling—that there must be some sort of rapid-response social vigilance operation active in major US cities. Some kind of system that measures the potential for social unrest, that deploys armed assets literally to the streets, to stamp out upheaval right at the root, quite literally suppressing any challenge to the fiat-based money-printing system that has created it.
Has anyone else experienced or witnessed some variation of this, either in major US cities or elsewhere?