01-09-2021, 04:55 PM
(01-09-2021, 03:08 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(01-09-2021, 02:01 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: The American left is powerless and no longer represented here today. So, where is MLK and how long will MLK's statue be safe from being torn down and replaced by a black fist representing black power. People better wake up here because this shit is going on and a fascist minded regime wants power these days and there's a very large American army waiting for them right now.
I think BLM has put its bet on non violence and legislation. It is likely enough that with the senate going to the Democrats, their bet will pay off. It is the looters, Boogaloo Bois, Proud Boys, bad cops, Wolverine Watchmen, secret police and other who have bet on violence. I am hoping they will run into law and order. Most have withdrawn from the conflict. The capitol insurrectionists have obviously not. Hopefully the law and order will be color blind. We'll see.
Black Lives Matters has a narrow objective: making police responses to black people less aggressive than they are now. It does not ask for softer treatment of overt offenders. I prefer that criminals be arrested more effectively... which creates fewer problems. The Democrats are less sympathetic to violence of any kind, and I can easily predict a crackdown on violent people.
Cameras are more effective than cops in detecting looters, arsonists, vandals, and assaulters. Conservatives and liberals alike can say "Do the crime and do the time".
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.