And so the Democrats want to defund the Police????
Well, if this is the kind of country you want, vote Democrat.
https://twitter.com/WhlteHovse/status/1275997991858393088?s=20
@lordalveric From what I can tell, only a few state and a few local level Democrats are on the defunding train.
@mathlover And if they have NOT spoken out against this nonsense, silence is consent.
From what I can tell, virtually all federal and the vast, vast majority of state and local Democrats do not agree with this. They are only silent because they are waiting for the nonsensical police defunding/abolition movement to burn out rather than inflame and prolong the fire of stupid with unwarranted attention. If it does not blow over or diminish over time, expect them to break their silence.
Let's be clear: silence is not consent, no matter how many idiots on Twitter and Facebook say otherwise. That line reminds me of when people accused John Goodman of agreeing with Roseanne Barr's tweets because he didn't respond to people on Twitter, even though John Goodman doesn't have a Twitter account. He later came out and stated what should have been obvious to anyone with a working brain:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/john-goodman-breaks-silence-roseanne-barrs-tweet/story?id=55556533
@lordalveric
I would say that the protests and riots have calmed down at this point, being mostly confined to a few cities, so if waiting is their strategy, it is playing out well.
Regarding the bit about fanning the flames: both parties have been stoking division for decades. Democrats have been stoking identity politics just as Republicans have stoked the culture wars. These protests aren't from that; they are coming from social media of the toxic kind (mostly Twitter and Facebook in this case) as well as the issue of increased economic inequality and decreased mobility—which Trump has done nothing to address and much to worsen—compounding massive lingering effects of historically institutional racial segregation on the economic and social fortunes of certain racial groups.
While Biden has faults, and Trump has positives, it is telling as to the character of both that, while the former had been staying out of the spotlight and generally quiet, the latter has been in the spotlight and generally brazen: by politicizing COVID prevention, mitigation, and science; by employing the politics of division in a time of conflict and unrest; and by doing all of this solely in an attempt to shore up his base, Trump has done far more harm than all the silent Democrats in the nation combined.
While I have come to hate Trump (I gave him a chance and he blew it; the final straw came with his handling of the COVID crisis) I do not extend that hate to his supporters or voters, nor do I hate, dislike, or like less any person simply because they voted for or support Trump. To do that would be to give into the politics of division; furthermore, people are kaleidoscopically diverse, strange, complicated, and beyond any semblance of a complete understanding on my part: to reduce anyone to their vote would be to ignore that fact.
@mathlover Then they are playing a dangerous game, from their perspective, because talk of that nature have apparently driven up gun sales, and also may have driven more votes for Trump from those sitting on the fence.
Which, as a Trump supporter myself, don't mind. :p
Blow over? Well, the Democrats have been fanning the flames of "racism" for decades. This is over 50 years since MLK's "I have a dream" speech, and I am both mortified and sickened by what the Democrats are doing now.
The false impeachment, the wrongful claims of collusion with Russia and Ukraine... on and on and on.
Where are the sensible Democrats to say, "Enough is enough?" Silence it not consent? Then why have they not spoken out long ago?
How much more rioting, looting, etc. must occur before they emerge from their cloak of silence?