re: Alright, season or no?

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This is really a long-winded way to try to keep from admitting you were wrong about it being the government's job to promote welfare in the United States.

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Do you know what citizens do when the government continues to let people down, even in a crisis? The best you can.

It's a long-held tradition in this country.

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And you think this virus is a accident? Better think again...

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It's funny to me that so many people feel so strongly about not judging all cops due to actions of a few "bad apples", while at the same time cherry picking isolated events and applying them as representative of the protests.

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You may want to fact check a few things in the future.

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Forbes shows that as of June 8, there have been at least 19 reported deaths that have happened during protests.

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None of those have been by the police and 14 of those were black.

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As of July 5, 2020, at least 26 people have died during the protests, with 22 due to gunshot wounds.

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This does not include people killed indirectly like the little girl dancing in her house for her grandmother. Her the grandmother in Durham who was killed by stray bullets. None of those were by police.

That number is greater in the last 7 weeks then in then the last 7 months where only 14 unarmed black men were killed by police in this country. So I was not cherry picking just pointing out using a fact.

I have no issue judging how the police need reform. But I am not also blind to the fact that the protest have not helped the cause or movement. Until we as people can learn to police ourselves by not looting, burning, and shooting each other, I am not sure why we feel we can justify reform in the police when we fail to do it ourselves.

I'll also make another prediction, you will see some comeback of the monarchy in some countries in the interim. Brazil would've been a power by now had they never overthrew their monarchy. The idea that a king was less intrusive in the average joe's life than an elected official is a sad state of affairs.

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I would think after the civil war that concept got even more fuzzy.

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It did as reconstruction did even more damage. Instead of trying to unite, as Lincoln I truly believe wanted, one side was forced to comply.

The institution of slavery by the elite in the south believed it was shielded from the power of the federal government but in the end post war even those outside of the elite in the south were punished at the hands of the federal government and why today so many, especially in the south refuse to acknowledge as having any right over their well being or choices. Hence why so many refuse to wear a mask more so out of principle.

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I think the majority fail to understand how our government is structured from the start. It was created with a hands off approach for those that had power could do as they may. It was never established to grant us rights or serve our needs. The idea of the founding fathers was that we were given rights at birth that could not be denied by a government or entity and that we were all able to fulfill our needs the way we felt was appropriate.

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It was also structured in a way that the "we" only applied to white male property owners. It was destined to be modified to fit the actual population at some point and that is what primarily forced the federal government to expand power.

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Had America been more tolerant and open-minded from the start, the country would've been in better shape.

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You can substitute America with any other country and the same would be true. The United States of America was a product of its time. It was formed during an age of enlightenment and the Founders incorporated some of the most progressive views of the era into its formation. The world was advancing in the right direction but it wasn't there yet. It would take almost 50 years from the time of the Constitutional Convention to the time Europe began abolishing slavery. We weren't the first western power to abolish slavery to be sure, but we certainly weren't the last. We were also ahead of the game for most western nations when it came to issues like women's suffrage.

Sounds like we will have college football. It might be without many fans, though. The schools can keep the players healthy, but not the idiot fans. Over and over these schools are proving that the athletes are much better protected from the virus than the general population.

If they are at home they would do that, for sure. Or be running the streets and getting into worse things than the virus. At school, they will be under the threat of not playing the next 2 weeks. Its just like going to class, the coaches will ride that arse. They would be in a much healthier place at school. So where do you think are they better off?

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At school, for sure, but if you think college athletes are going to stop chasing a piece of arse,

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I’m with you. College kids would walk thru a 300 yard land mine field if they believe they have a chance at some arse