06-14-2020, 12:49 PM
(06-14-2020, 12:05 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(06-06-2020, 01:06 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(06-06-2020, 12:39 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: "A black man’s death was blamed on democrat cops in a democrat city with a democrat police chief and a democrat mayor in a democrat state with a democrat governor. Then democrats got together and burned democrat cities. The democrat mayors and police chiefs allowed black businesses and neighborhoods to burn. Black people died in the riots."
It's all Trump's fault.
There is a reason the people are looking to the Democrats to change the violence and racism of the police. Changing the culture is not easy. The mass protests are necessary if you are going to get a cultural reboot.
Trump? It is not directly his fault. He did encourage racism for his personal gain. He did change the atmosphere to encourage the open display of racism. It might have effected things but there is no direct link. It is not acceptable to a lot of people. I assume you watch the news?
More of a concern is that he would rather intensify the violence than listen to the people. That is more an after the event reaction. I believe it will hurt him in November.
You know, I believe the resurgence of racism and its open display was in answer to Obama. Trump was one enabling factor. On the other hand, the current wave of protests is a response to the resurgence of racism. You go to one extreme and you swing to the other…. Then you swing back and then some.
The racist resurgence went against the arrow of progress. In particular, it goes against equality. In the long run, I anticipated that equality would continue long term gains. I confess, I didn’t anticipate the American push for all men being equal under law coming this hard and this soon. Still, there it is.
Which culture needs to be changed, the fucked up blue culture that we've seen several times and know exists that people like you tend to ignore and often dismiss and claim as minor or blame on us or blame on a couple of groups that you associate with us or the police culture that don't pay enough that you expect to deal with their shit and deal with liberal shit and deal with petty liberal politicians trying to make names for themselves every fucking day. Like I've said, we're going to have cops and will probably be adding more cops as blue cities are cutting funds and losing cops like crazy.
America has no monolithic "blue" culture. "Blue culture" includes much diversity in class, ethnicity, and religion. That "Blue" America is itself so diverse reflects the weakness of "Red" culture. Start with music: "Red" America surely listens to much more country music than the rest of America. Country music may be honest in expression of realities of personal life in much of America, but it seems to be rather light on intellectual content and musical innovation.
We "Blue" Americans are, if white, decidedly better educated than the rest of America. If Asian, much better educated. To be sure there are some ill-educated blacks and Hispanics, but the black bourgeoisie and middle-class Hispanics recognize the poor in their own ethnic group as people to uplift. Middle-class white people of "Red" America seem not to do much for poor white people in the Mountain and Deep South.
I do not have a problem with relatively-conservative parts of "Red" America getting "Blue" results with limited resources. Maybe we in "Blue" America could pick up some pointers. On the other hand, some very "Red" areas are very poor.
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.
