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Yet, the President of the United States is a Republican. The Senate is GOP-led. Clearly, Republicans want violence since it has not stopped. Durp.
The violence is not as much as your radical right-wing sources or Facebook garbage leads you to believe. By focusing on the violent incidences, they help you to ignore the issue. We live in a vast and massive country where violence is overwhelmingly non-existent among these demonstrations. And none of it can come close to what America saw in 1968. Next to that year, this year has been nothing. Yet, every time something happens you people lunge at the chance to vindicate your apathy and flippant attitudes. It's like you've assumed a personal stake in defending the dirty cop who has no problem reducing his standards to street thug levels in order to abuse his powers.
But let's go ahead and pretend that Republicans are "tough" because they would rather defend a lack of police standards and poor conduct than deal with a documented problem. Let's pretend that throwing the National Guard at American citizens makes Republicans tough on crime; and that pushing ever more military equipment to the national police force makes them professional in their duties. We'll just pretend all of this shallow nonsense solves the issue. What I see are Feds dressed up in military clothing and the National Guard hanging out with cops...while demonstrations continue.
What I see is violent demonstrations, riots and looting, mixed occasionally with peaceful protesters and until these peaceful protesters do something about the violence they stand beside them.