The daily spectacle of angry mobs pulling down statues, taunting police, attacking passersby, and taking over entire city blocks makes it seem like Black Lives Matter is a mass movement, that pretty much everyone except knuckle-dragging Trump supporters is on board with its radical agenda, and that the new national consensus is that you’re either anti-racist or racist.
Under these conditions, many ordinary Americans feel disoriented and discouraged. Confusion abounds. When did it become racist to like the national anthem and Mount Rushmore? At what point did we decide George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were moral monsters, or that all police are racist thugs? Why are rioters and looters allowed to terrorize people and destroy property with impunity? Why aren’t local elected leaders enforcing the law?
If you think what’s happening in America right now is crazy, you’re not alone. It’s true that something’s changed, that we’re in the middle of a crisis, that a cultural civil war is underway and escalating.
But it’s not true that this is a majoritarian movement. It’s not true that America fundamentally changed overnight. The hordes of protesters, impressive as them seem, don’t represent the country at large. According to Pew, only about 6 percent of U.S. adults have participated in a rally or protest in the past month, and they skew young, urban, and Democratic. That’s less than 20 million people—a lot, to be sure, but nothing close to a majority.
In some sense this is entirely psychological. A relatively small group of radical left-wing activists is using classic cult psychology to wage psychological war against the rest of us. They are the vanguard of what can only be described as a religious movement in America.
Indeed, Black Lives Matter and its attendant ideology contain all the elements of a religion: it promulgates doctrines that are explicitly normative, it has a cosmology and a morality, its claims are not subject to or consistent with scientific proofs. James Lindsay has gone further and described it as a cult, with recognizable and well-established features of a cult such as initiation, indoctrination, and cult reprogramming.
read more here: https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/26/were-in-a-cultural-civil-war-its-time-for-conservatives-to-fight-back/
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Historically, an organized, determined minority has always defeated a disorganized, confused majority... we either learn from history and respond appropriately or we repeat it.
Black Lives Matter is a mantra that has nothing to do with the movement or even black lives. Silence doesn't mean that an individual is on board with its radical agenda or that there is a national consensus that people are either anti-racist or racist, reality is that 99% of the time no one spends a second thinking about it. The reality is obvious when looks at the number of elected black individuals in this nation. Can not think of a week where one black politician is in the news. Obama was elected by 7M vote above the highest recient GOP president. The disorientation and discouragement I believe comes from finding out that the idealistic socialism being taught at all levels of education doesn't match reality, violence on the streets. Whites being an original sin is new, not part of socialism education and has been just thrown in recently and doesn't match reality. Individuals are saying to themselve, I voted for Obama and many other black politicians, I trust there capacity to serve me, how can I be racist? Original sin is a component of a religion. Only a small part of those that march are members of this new sect of socialism, BLM. True believers do not practice the principles just in public. What we see on the news of whites washing the feet of BLM members is pandering. Pew says that only about 6% of US adults participate in the protest, of those a far smaller fraction are members of this new sect of Socialism. My guess is less then half
This is a Communist Revolution incognito so we can't call it what it is without being called 'RACIST'. PERIOD!............Democrats are so deceptively sleazy about everything!! They are the enemy within. Wake the Fahke up People!!! This is THE DEMOCRATS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAio9KMPxPE
I love this guy. We should ALL be doing this!!
The ass kicking will be witnessed when the formidable silent majority, black, white, Asian, Hispanic have had enough of these george soros paid whimpering and whining cowardly childish thugs, they will be slapped down like the useless commie tools that they are.
Troll! - You know that Trump will win in another landslide again, and he will also take the House back. Biden is no match for the greatest president in my lifetime. Trump has rebuilt America in his first short 3 1/2 years and he will get even more accomplished after he gets re-elected. Sit back and enjoy watching Trump make America great again.
Riots on Mainstreet America, cities aflame, businesses looted, monuments destroyed, citizens terrorized is not making America Great Again... Trump is the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in the Land... he needs to make the tough choices and go after the leaders of the open insurrection occurring in the land. He needs to do what he has failed to do... arrest senior members of the government who are working to destroy America... the insurrectionist, the seditionist, the corrupt criminal elements in the DOJ, FBI, CIA, DOD, DHS, and State Government need to know that there is a PRESIDENT In-office who will enforce the laws no matter how difficult and uncomfortable it may be.
The failure of Federal Law Enforcement to address the open insurrection in government and the outright hostile and unconstitutional acts of members of Congress has infected the entire social order... lawlessness is becoming the Modus Operandi to secure change... Every institution of government from the judiciary to the K-9 corps are corrupt... and the PEOPLE know it but have no leadership to organize an effective defense against it. To that end, the People elected President Trump their ... Bull in the China Closet ... However, Pres Trump has proven not to be up to the task... He hasn't put a dent in the swamp and in fact, he has basically ignored the swamp... letting ineffective and corrupt Attorney Generals continue the Status Quo... lies and betrayal...
This must change quickly as revolution awaits in the streets of America... how is that making America Great Again?
Someone just shot two anarchists in ky. Like that? WTF do YOU think is going to happen to the left if they keep up their COMMUNIST REVOLUTION? You're also full of shit,Troll.
This is a very dangerous time... the People... the true patriot is about to lose his composure and strike out with vigilante law... why... why! Because NO ONE IN THE DOJ, FBI, and WHITE HOUSE will enforce the laws by going after the leadership behind the insurrection occurring in our streets. The PRESIDENT IS NOT DOING HIS JOB and the People know it and are greatly offended that their champion is cowering in the WHITE HOUSE while the nation burns.
The failure of Federal Law Enforcement to address the open insurrection in government and the outright hostile and unconstitutional acts of members of Congress has infected the entire social order... lawlessness is becoming the Modus Operandi to secure change... Every institution of government from the judiciary to the K-9 corps are corrupt... and the PEOPLE know it but have no leadership to organize an effective defense against it. To that end, the People elected President Trump their ... Bull in the China Closet ...
However, Pres Trump has proven not to be up to the task... He hasn't put a dent in the swamp and in fact, he has basically ignored the swamp... letting ineffective and corrupt Attorney Generals continue the Status Quo... lies and betrayal...
It may not be far behind.
This is more than that. This is an attempt to physically overthrow our goavernment.
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