An attempted revolution by entitled, privileged snobs

streiff:

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Unless you’ve missed it, we’re seeing the formation of what could become an active insurrection. A lot of it is straight out of the unconventional warfare classroom. The radical Marxist group Black Lives Matter provides the direction. There are establishment figures, like Nancy Pelosi, like Chuck Schumer, like Rachel Maddow, like Jake Tapper, who think by mouthing correct slogans they will buy influence and loyalty, but, if this project succeeds those folks and their face-diaper wearing colleagues will be among the first to the scaffold (assuming anyone in BLM has the mechanical skills to erect one). The rent-a-mobs are composed of three easily identifiable segments: the provocateurs and street soldiers composed largely of antifa and black bloc stooges; the ‘mostly peaceful’ protesters who think they are participating in a legitimate act of protest; and the opportunists who show up to carry off big screen televisions, throw bricks at cops, and commit vandalism for the sake of destroying stuff. The general strategy in this kind of movement is that the provocateurs try to create acts of violence directed against law enforcement and security forces. They are aided in this by the opportunists who often have a large number of actual criminals in the ranks. The idea is to provoke the security forces into an act that leaves lots of bodies in the street, ideally bodies belonging to the ‘mostly peaceful’ protesters. This, in turn, recruits more people to the cause as the dead are deemed martyrs and recruiting tools.

It doesn’t always work.

In the aftermath of the Ohio National Guard visiting the Kent State University campus (May 4, 1970) and the Jackson (MS) city police and Mississippi highway patrol dropping by Jackson State College (May 14, 1970) the violent protests on college campuses came to a screeching halt. Being a martyr loses a lot of its appeal when it stopped being coffee house bullsh** and started really involving being dead....

The irony is all that was that virtually no one protesting the war in Vietnam was actually in danger of going. By 1970 so many exemptions to the draft existed that in order to get drafted you really had to cooperate. It was working class kids, not their upper middle class contemporaries, who fought and bled in Vietnam and enormous numbers did so voluntarily.

There are some misconceptions about the nature of the violent demonstrations…and anyone who tells you ‘most’ of the demonstrations have been non-violent is simply lying to you or is a slobbering moron. There seems to be a perception that the BLM street soldiers are disadvantaged black Americans who are trying to achieve some measure of normalcy in lives that are characterized by systemic racism and police brutality. In reality, any video of a BLM organized demonstration will show you that the people breaking the law, engaging in direct action, and attempting to provoke authorities are anything other than disadvantaged or black. This is from a demonstration in Raleigh, NC, two days ago. As a point of reference, Raleigh is 53% non-Hispanic white.

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... What the BLM movement is capturing it its street fighting ventures is not oppressed striking out for freedom and equality. What is embodies is a temper tantrum of a lot of overly educated but quite stupid young adults (I use the term chronologically, not behaviorally) who are angry that they are not being treated by the world with the same deference Mommy and Daddy (assuming they knew him because it is very clear that a great number of these goons do not come from a home with an actual father) showed them growing up. There are no participation trophies. There are no automatic A’s from professors who were worried about self esteem. All the games keep score. No one cares about your feelings. Add to that a dead end job and a mountain of student loan debt and you have a lot of spoiled brats who believe that being in charge is owed to them seeing their miserable piss-ant lives slip away into the abyss of irrelevance and a pauper’s grave.

West makes a much more succinct observation than I’m capable of by quoting someone much smarter than me:

The rich have always paradoxically been radical, something G.K. Chesterton observed over a hundred years ago when he wrote “You’ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists: they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists.”

This is where I think the BLM revolution in making breaks down. Most Americans are against anarchy. Most Americans are against meaningless violence. Most Americans don’t want statues torn down. Most don’t want the nuclear family to be destroyed. Most are not in favor of 50+ sexual deviances being recognized as normal. I would submit that most of the BLM agenda is completely out of touch with what is believed in any normal neighborhood in America....
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There is much more.

The BLM movement has been a terrific advertisement for gun sales.  They could be a leading indicator of where real voters actually are in dealing with the wreck and ruin of rioters. Overeducated but unintelligent people in the media seem to think the thugs are smart.  I suspect the Democrat leadership sees these people as useful idiots.