Posted on 12/24/2015 8:26:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Over roughly the past 18 months, the following events have transfixed the nation.
In July 2014, Eric Garner, an African American man reportedly selling loose cigarettes illegally, was choked to death by a New York City policeman.
That August, a white police officer, Darren Wilson, shot and killed an African American teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri. For close to two weeks, protesters battled police clad in military gear. Missouri's governor said the city looked like a war zone.
In December, an African American man with a criminal record avenged Garner's and Brown's deaths by murdering two New York City police officers. At the officers' funerals, hundreds of police turned their backs on New York's liberal mayor, Bill de Blasio.
In April 2015 another young African American man, Freddie Gray, died in police custody, in Baltimore. In the chaos that followed, 200 businesses were destroyed, 113 police officers were injured, and 486 people were arrested. To avoid further violence, a game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox was postponed twice, then played in an empty stadium with police sirens audible in the distance.
Then, in July, activists with Black Lives Matter, a movement that had gained national attention after Brown's death, disrupted speeches by two Democratic presidential candidates in Phoenix, Arizona. As former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley fidgeted onstage, protesters chanted, "If I die in police custody, avenge my death! By any means necessary!" and "If I die in police custody, burn everything down!" When O'Malley responded, "Black lives matter, white lives matter, all lives matter," the crowd booed loudly. Later that day, O'Malley apologized.
Donald Trump, who had ascended to first place in the race for the Republican presidential nomination while promising to represent the "silent majority," called O'Malley "a disgusting little weak, pathetic baby."
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Wishful thinking
If the media did its job and reported the news rather than create it, there wouldn’t be a Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
I blame the destruction of this country on one person. George Snuffalapogus. When Obama said, “My Muslim faith” a real reporter would have asked him to elaborate on that and then would have questioned his allegiance to white hater Jeremiah White. Instead, he corrected Obama, which swept everything under the rug.
These things pretty much guarantee there is no going back to sanity and liberty. We do not have a population that knows much of anything about tradition and economics and principles.
Sure is.
One way to disenamor (is that a word?) the young with ObaMao moving things left is to require them to leave their parents’ basement.
This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already!
Without the media pumping one-sided Narrative 24/7, those events mentioned will be just local news.
Nope. We are still a center-right nation. Obviously most of us Freepers are more to the right than the average.
The left is found in academia and certain minorities who are on the take. The dems are losing the blue collar workers as they see how they are continually screwed by the left. They are also tired of seeing their hard earned dollars being taken by the government to support worthless gimmeedat’s and refugees we have no use for. In fact most of them will always be an anchor on the taxpayers.
DC and government in general has been infiltrated by this leftist doctrine that promises a good life with bennies and large paychecks. The weak-minded of them are all too happy to go along with the charade.
However, the pendulum always swings both ways, and when a good Prez is in office and works to ban government Unions because the only people on the other side of the bargaining table are the taxpayers and they didn’t get the invite.
Government workers now make an average of 1/3 more than their private sector counterparts. Their benefits are usually twice as good as well. It used to be they got paid 1/3 less but their bennies made up for it. Now they get it both ways while the people paying their salaries, the taxpayers, are getting screwed and haven’t had a pay raise in 10 years.
The solution: Smaller government in all areas except the military. No Unions in government at any level. That includes city, county, state, and federal other than to protect the workers from unfair and dangerous work environments just like anyone has.
Dang. I didn’t mean for this to go so long...
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