More "largely peaceful" Portland protests

[Von Cichlid]

(08-29-2020, 05:42 PM)samhain Wrote: Power and might are nice things for authorities to have on their side, but they are far from being guarantees of definitive resolution in the face of genuine discontent.  If they were, places like Afghanistan and Syria would have been under control years ago.  If true urban warfare ensued, it would be a nightmare for everyone involved.  

I think that the authorities have been hoping that the situation would fizzle out without escalation, to no avail.

Oh I agree.  These riots are not fizzling out because these rioters aren't making reasonable demands that can actually be met.  What they want is full on reparations like what I discussed previously, or they want the country torn down.  They absolutely despise everything that's even remotely traditional and conservative, anything even loosely related to traditional American values, and they want this country changed to a point that it would be unrecognizable and would effectively cease to be the same country at all.  People did not realize how far gone these rioters are.  The liberal mayors, governors, and media did not realize it, but they do now.  

In short, they want this to be something other than America.  In this particular post I am not condemning them, I am just calling it the best I see it.

I am trying to avoid hyperbole here, I really am, but after 90 days in multiple cities it is plain as day to me that this is not about anything as relatively small as police brutality, or even general social justice.  This is an insurrection by the lower classes of society.  Like you said, there is genuine discontent, and I believe it is of the sort that will be unable to hear compromise or reason.  

I also think that even if Biden wins, that it will not stop.  Remember, these rioters hate what they perceive as the upper classes of society, and they will not separate Democrat from Republican in that regard.  After all, they are even closing in on the liberal mayors as well:

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/08/29/Portland-protesters-demonstrate-at-police-union-building-mayors-condo/1101598730141/?ocid=uxbndlbing

This is even after months of the mayor "Having their back."

If this is going to be stopped, it will probably have to be put down militarily, like with an insurrection, whether it be Trump or Biden that has to be the one to do it.

Again, I really do hope I am just being hyperbolic here, but every day this continues we get closer to what I am writing about.