Posted on 11/18/2021 4:02:48 AM PST by Kaslin
Look, when you threaten to douse the streets in blood for promoting the very same policy of allowing police officers to enforce the law, expect people to look at you sideways. Yes, there are still enough white liberals to buoy Black Lives Matter's approval ratings, but like Joe Biden—they're dipping. No doubt they had a chance to have a wide dialogue about policing. There are bad cops—no doubt. Instead, BLM went on an insane tangent of rioting, looting, wanton arson, and declaring policing as an instrument of white supremacy. Not even black Americans support this garbage narrative. Minneapolis had an explicit "abolish the police" initiative that was roundly rejected this year.
Anyway, here's where BLM sits with the American public (via NY Post):
Support for Black Lives Matter in the US has declined in the 18 months since George Floyd was killed, a new poll shows.
The poll, conducted by Civiqs — an online survey organization associated with the progressive media group Daily Kos — found 44 percent of respondents currently support the BLM movement.
It has dropped from the high of 52 percent of respondents who supported BLM after Floyd was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis in May last year.
Meanwhile, opposition to BLM has spiked over the same timeframe — 44 percent currently oppose it, which is up from 28 percent in the days after Floyd’s killing.
Eleven percent neither support nor oppose BLM and 1 percent remain unsure, according to the poll.
I feel like this is similar to gun control. A horrible incident occurs, support spikes, and then dips when people find out and hear more about what the left is proposing. The tragic Sandy Hook shooting saw support for gun control soar to a record high and then return to normal, setting around 40-44 percent.
The same could be applied to BLM, but with one notable difference in the final stage of this public opinion journey. We have a horrible officer-involved incident, BLM's approval spikes, and then the insanity of the rioting begins. Whether white liberals like it or not, everyone wants more police and more public safety. You don't need to be James Carville to see how this is a grossly unpopular proposal. And yet, the left is attached to it like a barnacle.
BLM is a wing of the DNC.
Kenosha is going the be the next excuse for BLM to riot and loot because, well, Christmas is coming and some people need to “shop”.
There’s always another stupid movement behind the current progressive movement when progressives tire of it. Look for Operation Wall Street v 2.0. Any excuse not to find a job.
I never supported those attention whores. Just another scam for the founders to get rich.
blm can kma. I never ever took that seriously and still do not.
there are local stores where i still won’t shop b/c they supported that bs last summer.
When blacks start patrolling their own backyard and cleaning up the mess, maybe i will give a damn but i doubt it.
Black Lives Matter is a toxic thug militia that belongs in the dustbin of history. It has *nothing* to do with Civil Rights, and I think most sane people are finally admitting that. It belongs in the same dustbin as the Orwellian-named “AntiFA”, as well as Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), and Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS).
Thug Nation sucks..
A communist, racist & terrorist criminal organization
I’ve had several discussions with black people over last couple years about BLM. Most of the time, they bring it up, not me. And they all say the same thing. They think BLM is stupid and does not represent them. They say police attitude towards people of color is a problem, but they do not support what BLM does and it does not represent them. Unfortunately they are quiet about it because they will get labeled and shamed as an uncle tom.
I personally feel the only people I hear in support of it are white SJWs and Karens.
How do we know that BLM is not run by the FIB?
Black Lives Matter is the terrorist arm of the racist NAACP.
Black Lives matter is a political construct of the City State coalition and is an organizational American Domestic Enemy. BLM is actually a black plague on American cities
Political Analysis
Black will need to be redefined. With so many biracial unions, The Democrats will have to cause more divisions.
Black is a political construct designed and forcibly put forward to create the appearance and feel where there actually is none.
Black is destroying American cities
Reality eventually defeats propaganda.
It is also the ultimate racist organization and will fall from its own weight once its usefulness has waned.
It’s not an election year. I don’t expect much will happen in Kenosha. BLM is a GOTV tool for Dems. A Democrat is in the White House and no vote to get out now.
Wherever this poll was taken reveals 44 percent of some very ignorant citizens.
BLM is the same leftist activist group they’ve had for decades. Same people as the old Occupy Wall Street. They just added a handful of Blacks in this group.
The real problem isn't an inordinate amount of bad cops, the problem is what society is demanding of cops in 2021. We are asking cops to police a society that no longer feels the need to police itself. It pertains to what John Adams had warned. . .referring to our constitutional society as only being viable upon the condition of "a moral and religious people." It means that unless that moral foundation is present in a society, no policing will suffice . . . even if we were to be policed by angels.
We don't need a police reformation, we need a societal reformation and a great awakening to the moral and spiritual principles that are non-negotiables if the American experiment is to endure.
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