Why conservatives defend murderer.
People have to justify this, because they have chosen a side that declares that there is little to no problem with our police, and that the problem lies with the people protesting them and the criminals themselves.
While most of us have accepted by now that there is a serious problem within our police force, whether you fall on the side of rampant racism or inadequate or improper training, and we get a little bitter vindication each time something like this happens.
But if you have chosen the opposition side, for whatever reason, your position has to be either "a few bad apples" to "no problem at all, just spoiled brat kids growing up to be thugs" and you have to defend any police action, because admitting that a cop did something wrong at this point would start the process of tearing down your world view.
This is the danger of partisanship, and how extreme it's gotten. Most people in this world are sane people. Most people in this country don't actually feel that the police should have the job of judge jury and executioner when dealing with suspected criminals, but they can't argue that if they've chosen the opposition side, because the opposition groupthink is that "Blue Lives Matter" and the problem lies elsewhere.
It would be fascinating to watch if it wasn't so goddamn tragic.
While most of us have accepted by now that there is a serious problem within our police force, whether you fall on the side of rampant racism or inadequate or improper training, and we get a little bitter vindication each time something like this happens.
But if you have chosen the opposition side, for whatever reason, your position has to be either "a few bad apples" to "no problem at all, just spoiled brat kids growing up to be thugs" and you have to defend any police action, because admitting that a cop did something wrong at this point would start the process of tearing down your world view.
This is the danger of partisanship, and how extreme it's gotten. Most people in this world are sane people. Most people in this country don't actually feel that the police should have the job of judge jury and executioner when dealing with suspected criminals, but they can't argue that if they've chosen the opposition side, because the opposition groupthink is that "Blue Lives Matter" and the problem lies elsewhere.
It would be fascinating to watch if it wasn't so goddamn tragic.
