I have a buddy that thinks the same as you. It doesn't matter who is in charge, it's still the same system.
Honestly, I agree with a lot of your views.
Right now we are still in a time that is so distant from people really coming together and growing out of the need for "things" and "stuff", a time when people outgrow greed, jealousy, anger, etc...
In the here and now, cops are all we have. There are good and bad but at this point in our history without them, we would be chicago x 100. Way too many good guys out there to spit on them all. More good than bad.
Honestly, it doesn't bother me one way or the other how they honor these guys but I do know our system has created a need for them because we are animals.
Abolish the police and we are definitely fucked but this is America and you are free to not like the police.
As far as the human race rising above itself, I'd say we are looking at a few hundred years. Hell, we may have to destroy ourselves to do it but that's for future generations to debate about in political forums on bodybuilding boards