So what’s next?

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(06-03-2020, 03:34 AM)Benton Wrote: What's next? More of the same.

People want to rationalize their beliefs. The current situation isn't any different. Trump gets made fun of for hiding in a bunker; Trump has peaceful protesters hit with smoke bombs and pepper bombs, beaten and driven off so he can look tough; media reports what protesters experienced (including believing they had been hit with tear gas); PD who did the hitting say 'we used pepper bombs and smoke bombs, but not tear gas'; Trump supporters: SEE THE MEDIA IS LYING! THEY NEVER USED TEAR GAS!; Trump supporters ignore everything else.

And the far left is just as bad.

If I could decide? That people would have some ****ing human decency. That people would put what's right above what fits their social/political/economic status. We romanticize a lot of our country's history. Most country's do. But I truly believe at the end of the day, the people who actually did the heavy lifting (civil rights, WWII, Boston Tea Party, etc) all did so with the belief they were making the world a better place. They knew what they were doing was for the betterment of others, and they were willing to make a sacrifice for that.

No. Unfortunately, a change is only going to come when an overwhelming majority of people realize they're being manipulated by a very small minority. And things are going to have to go even further south before that happens.

This.

There is nothing new under the sun.  I didn't live through them but are these riots as bad as 1968?  Are police better/worse?

We've made strides in this country but not enough.  May never be enough.   Add in that the majority (whites) will be the minority soon and the entire dynamic starts to change.  From elections on.

Crazy times.