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Perhaps the phrase “Black Lives Matter” was chosen for the almost automatic response it generates.

There is an underlying confrontation when people hear it and many subconsciously respond accordingly:

“Oh yeah? Well, _____ lives matter, too, pal!”

Actually, that automatic response reveals a better name for their cause:

“Black Lives Matter, Too”

Because, isn’t that what is really being said?

And, psychologically, this phrase/name provokes an entirely different automatic response.

Adding “Too” makes the person hearing it automatically ask themselves:

I don’t understand ... why do you think black lives don’t matter now?

Here, we automatically have a conversation, NOT a confrontation, and it’s all built-in, a natural part of how we’ve been designed as humans.

People don’t think very much and it’s not our fault. Real thinking about something requires a LOT of energy.

Just think about how tired you are after doing your taxes or a similar mental chore. Thinking uses up a lot of energy!

Ours is a world of feast and famine, so, by design, to conserve resources, we generally don’t think very much.

Instead, we have an app for that.

We automatically respond to stimulus instantaneously, without thinking, as a built-in survival mechanism.

And “They” know that, too, and use it against us/US.

By using the phrase “Black Lives Matter”, they get us to respond instantly to this perceived confrontation automatically, with our emotions, and without us ever thinking about it.

Instead, our next thoughts are all about justifying our automatic response (our emotional reaction) to that provocation.

And it’s all on purpose, too, with knowledge and intent against you and against me, against of us/US ... think about that!

Whose lives really matter? Only theirs ... we’re either useful idiots or a threat.

And that’s the hows and why “they” divide us and how and why “they” get us to disarm ourselves, too.

All too easy? Yep.

Fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time? Yep.

In politics and human nature, that’s about all you need to rule the world ... if you can take it.

Just look around ... what do you think?