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The progressive insurgency has a chance of scoring its biggest victory yet.

Trevor Noah gives a powerful and persuasive argument about looting and the breakdown of society when law enforcement deems itself above the law.

Here's a link to the embedded video which starts around the 8 minute mark:
https://youtu.be/v4amCfVbA_c?t=492

[transcript]

"Black Lives Matter" is a proper name (like "John" or "Mary") aimed at an audience for whom Black lives do not matter.

The disaffection, the demoralization, and the gap between one person and another only on the basis of the color of their skin, begins there and accelerates – accelerates throughout a whole lifetime – to the present when you realize you’re thirty and are having a terrible time managing to trust your countrymen. By the time you are thirty, you have been through a certain kind of mill. And the most serious effect of the mill you’ve been through is, again, not the catalog of disaster, the policemen, the taxi drivers, the waiters, the landlady, the landlord, the banks, the insurance companies, the millions of details, twenty four hours of every day, which spell out to you that you are a worthless human being. It is not that. It’s by that time that you’ve begun to see it happening, in your daughter or your son, or your niece or your nephew.

You are thirty by now and nothing you have done has helped to escape the trap. But what is worse than that, is that nothing you have done, and as far as you can tell, nothing you can do, will save your son or your daughter from meeting the same disaster and not impossibly coming to the same end...

‘St. Paul man arrested for burning down of Minneapolis police precinct’, kimt.com, June 8, 2020, (with a five image photo gallery including Wolfe’s photo and this one):

(Authorities say Wolfe identified himself as the shirtless figure with his arms raised)

Krystal Ball had a piece on millennials that I thought was worth highlighting here: