Posted on 09/15/2020 5:41:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
We live in the age of assertion. Nothing requires proof -- least of all a claim about racial injustice, such as, "'Law and order' is just another name for an excuse to come down hard on people of color seeking affirmation of their long-disregarded rights."
You'll get no argument on that point from the progressive media, which normally gives a hall pass to anyone with deep suspicions that America isn't half the country celebrated by the textbooks.
Ahem ...
A new Monmouth University poll suggests two-thirds of us see law and order as an immediate national problem -- Republicans and GOP-leaning independents more so than Democrats, but with up to two-thirds of nonwhite non-Republicans sharing the same concern. Says the director of the poll, Patrick Murray: "It appears we are looking at a divergence between politics and experience. ... For people of color (unlike for Republicans), partisan identity does not seem to be driving their opinion on this issue."
Whose neighborhoods get torched and looted -- as in Minneapolis and Kenosha, Wisconsin -- when police are called out to restrain Black Lives Matter protesters? The neighborhoods of inner-city Blacks, who you might suggest have a right to feel used by the protesters and marchers and Molotov cocktail-throwers.
The Monmouth poll finds overall support for the protesters slipping, with 24% calling their actions fully justified against 30% in late June. In early June, 57% called the anger driving the protests fully justified; just 39% today say the same.
A huge chunk of the American population lost its temper following the George Floyd killing in late May. Dogmatic rage came easily back then. How could this outrage have happened? What to do but exhibit counter-outrage? Bang! Crash! Smash!
In the tension of the moment, with a deadly virus vexing attempts to control it and nearly unprecedented political hatreds lighting up the sky, one might as readily put a hurricane on slow speed as calm the agitation of an aroused populace.
That would be pending, nonetheless, the rediscovery that "law and order" -- a phrase older, by far, than President Donald Trump -- can't be gotten around as an essential element of democracy. You can't turn over the streets to self-deputized angels of vengeance. Oh, they'll wreak vengeance all right -- along with destruction and the possibility of civil war.
The dogmatism of Black Lives Matter, viewed as a loose coalition or just a mindset, leads not to justice but rather to disorder. The protesters, in their own eyes, are right; everybody else is wrong and racist and probably deserving of rough treatment.
So hardened and cruel this particular dogma becomes that in Los Angeles county last weekend, two sheriff's deputies were shot while sitting in their patrol car and rushed to the emergency room.
So. Black lives matter. Other lives, not so much. What a formula for peace -- assuming that's what we want here -- peace and civility and cooperation and other attributes definitely not invented or monopolized as talking points by the White House's current occupant.
The Monmouth poll says 52% of respondents have confidence in Joe Biden as a guarantor of law and order, whereas just 48% so regard Trump. The division is, in fact, a close one, and a reminder, in a democratic order, of the necessity of streets and workplaces safe for citizens to venture.
No law, no order, no freedom -- it's about as clear and simple as that. Clear and simple enough that numbers consistent with the Monmouth poll responses would likely welcome media attention -- finally -- to the indisputable problems that go with lawlessness and disregard for the binding, as distinguished from the loosening, elements in the patterns of life.
The idea that Black lives are to be avenged and protected by the destruction of law and order would be laughable were it not so contrary to every consideration of respect for Blacks, whites and the whole multicolor range of just plain Americans.
I’m not thrilled they stopped. Americans have the attention span of a knat. These protests will be forgotten next week if they are indeed over.
It is not only public sentiment, but the Dims/Biden want the “protesters” to “cool it” also. And I imagine with less than six degrees of separation between leading Dims and BLM & Anitfa the word has gone out directly to BLM & Antifa to “cool it”, “for Biden’s sake” only. With a Biden loss it will be mass intentional mayhem.
White House Siege starts in 2 days. I suspect they’re on the road to Washington.
Only to be started again on the evening of Nov 3rd.
As riots move to more cities, people get nervous. When they were only in 5 cities, they were entertainment. Now people worry they could spread to their towns.
We have a complication in that Biden-bugs could tangle with the Trumpies in the neighboring counties.
I happened onto Outnumbered a few weeks ago. Melissa Francis asked Marie Barf ‘what to they want?’. Barf launched into a tirade of ‘Orange Man bad’ commentary. Francis was not deterred. She asked again ‘WHAT do they want?’. Barf deflected again. No answer as there is no answer. There will be no resolution. Even if Biden ‘wins’ (and did everybody read Harris’ assertion ‘A Harris Administration with Biden’??), there will be no peace. The rioters, looters and criminals have learned that they can do anything they want without accountability.
The riots so far were Pre-season games.
September 17 they all descend on Washington DC for “Occupy White House” through the election and the post election riots.
helloooo…
- The Monmouth poll says 52% of respondents have confidence in Joe Biden as a guarantor of law and order, whereas just 48% so regard Trump. -
WTH?
If the shooting of the LA Officers don’t open people’s eyes then it’s over.
And nationally, the Republicans are happy to let Demcrats, “Lead this discussion.”
Mitt Romney IS the face of the national party. A snitching butt-kisser in a perpetual state of wedgie.
Somebody needs to write a folk song, “Oh, George Floyd died, with pooey fingers...”
The Frankenstein mob won’t stop. They have the taste of mass violence in their mouths and they like it. The rioters are a magnet for all of the most depraved in our society. At some point they will have to be exterminated.
If you are anti-PC, then stop capitalizing “black”.
Well, OTOH, I have a concern that people don’t see Trump actually doing anything to insist they be stopped, so maybe they’re not too thrilled with his leadership.
But actually there have been “protests” in innumerable towns and cities. Many of them got to riot, some were put down right away.
Best would be to have lists of those who did. Even my uncle’s rural MD town had a protest, albeit short-lived, and look at Lancaster PA now.
We had a few but they were “peaceful” (they blocked traffic). They threatened to tear down the Confederate statue in the next county but the LEO’s told them they couldn’t protect them and that dissuaded them.
Maybe. Who knows what voters think. I’ve pretty much given up trying.
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