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According to Wikipedia, the Minneapolis and St. Paul riots were the second most destructive in US history, behind the Los Angeles riots in 1992. Police stations in Minneapolis and Apple Valley were burned to the ground, and about 1500 buildings were damaged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_George_Floyd_protests_in_Minneapolis%E2%80%93Saint_Paul#


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Ted

Except that it’s been happening everywhere across the Western world for over 50 years. Not just the US of the last 15.

Soros wasn’t financing anyone 50 years ago. Besides, there are a lot of right of centre billionaires who could do the same thing. But they don’t because we don’t ask them to. The difference is the right funds politicians. The left funds activism. You wanna win? You need activism. It only takes 8 % of a population to ignite a revolution.

Wrong.

The BLM and ANTIFA riots were tolerated by a complicit Liberal Media and by activist Liberal Left Democrat Mayors, Governors, and District Attorneys. Police were ordered to stand down as violent riots went on for weeks.Their violent criminal looting and arson was excused by the Leftist Democrats and described as "mostly peaceful".. Many of these same Leftist Democrats refused offers from Donald Trump in 2020 to send in troops to quell the riots. Nor did they want to use their own State National Guard units. These cities were allowed to be looted and burned to create the false narrative that having Trump as President was the root cause of racial discord. They didn't care one bit that innocent citizens and business owners suffered, or that scores of police officers were injured. These cities were sacrificed as part of the Democrat plan to depose Trump. That was also the greatest incentive to shut down the economy during the Covid lockdowns. Covid also provided a convenient excuse for absentee ballots that made election fraud easier. The same Leftists who want extreme and excessive punishment for Jan. 6th protesters go out of their way to prevent equal justice for BLM and ANTIFA rioters.

Why was Kyle Rittenhouse identified immediately, and we still don't know the names of the post-Super Bowl Kansas City shooters???

To emulate that type of "activism" means Conservatives and Republicans would have to become just as evil and pathologically dishonest. We would have to become just as mentally ill to think we should imitate or copy their fascist behavior. Unfortunately, the Left has also learned they can intimidate many on the Right into silence. And when that doesn't work, they try censorship.

I dunno cback, there are plenty of right of center(re) donors who put their money where their wallet is. The left wingers are happy to skew elections to destabilize, the right does it to get monstrous, no bid pork contracts? No doubt, there's a steady component to left wing "activism", but recent years has shown your exponential growth.

I think, the only, true as can be, "activism", or organic movement that arose from nowhere, was the President Trump election. jo didn't have activists pounding the ground. He had big money, how else would he have compliantly signed the order, killing the Keystone on day one, when he slept through the campaign, tucked away in care home conditions. No, watch any left wing activism? There are always well paid choreographers, dressing the actors in matching t-shirts, "organically" having professionally printed signage and luxo buses, spontaneously contracted to wisk in pros?

Having a relative younger child, you should be well aware that their schooling and stimulus, make it far more likely for them to nod in agreement with tru-jo and their ilk, than you would have gotten out of your early schooling. One big money has useful dupes, the other is a rino hedge fund, good ole boy's club.

Craig, you are talking about politics. I’m not.

I’m talking about social attitudes, which politics follows. Politics does not lead.

You mention schools. The Left infiltrated the institutions of education. School boards, teaching colleges, the government bureaucracy that oversee the whole system.

The Toronto School Board recently issued a curriculum guidebook for all of its teachers. It’s the largest school board in the country. The guide explicitly notes that “education IS white privilege”. That is not the doing of politicians. That is activism. But it sure affects how those students will vote in 5 to 15 years.

If one is fighting the battle with politicians and political parties only, you will lose. Those people Lloyd complains about, who moved into Colorado from Cali or NY and changed the place? They are activists. The politicians follow them.

Okay, another example. In the US, Pesident T seated three Supreme Court Justices, and an R Senate blocked the obam nominee garland, who has become an activist at the highest level. Another activist at the highest level would be maiyorkiss, with his southern and northern porous border policy, both devised by an administration. I argue intentionally that the two, activism and politics, cannot be separated.

The US would look quite different, if the billary, of Canada based off shore political foreign campaign fundraising foundation, had shaped the high court of the US. The activists were still around, and so was the hypocrisy of so called, social attitudes? No big deal, you win, but votes matter and affect policy.

Craig, I'm not saying those things aren't important. And I'm not saying that activism and politics aren't intertwined. But they happen because the groundwork has been laid. Over a long period of time. Politics alone won't win the game. For confirmation of that statement, look around.

From a 'shaping of society" standpoint, which is what this thread started out about, it starts with activism, that tills and prepares the soil, so politicians and judges can create the laws and legal precedents.

You can't get a Mayorkas out of the blue. His activism sits of the shoulders of thousands of lower level people who made it possible for him to reach those heights of power.

The way you get the votes is to have softened up the electorate to the ideas of the activists.

A good example of activism and politics, is the tea party and ultimately the Obama administration using the IRS to shut them down.the tea party would affect the election of Obama and the Obama couldn't have that ,we think the democrats are wrong they think Republicans are evil.

No, not wrong and the evidence is everywhere. Being activist doesn't mean being a fascist. Doesn't mean being evil or pathologically dishonest. You are so simple minded Keith. You guys want to stick your head in the sand. You have watched this stuff your whole lives and you still don't understand what has really happened. How do you think the media got complicit? How do you think those Liberal Left Democrat Mayors, Governors and DAs got in power? You guys take such a short term view of things.....so you are always playing catch up.

I'm glad someone here gets it. The Tea Party were activists. Different from politicians. We need more Tea Parties. We need more people who rise up again in a different form to continue the fight after they are politically stymied by a corrupt IRS doing Obama's dirty work. We need that shit going on for the next 40 year.......not 4 years.