Black Lives Matter is a new movement based on longstanding grievances. For sure, in this social

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30. Your fears are justified. When discussing Any political issue...

I have to preface my remarks with: "Do you keep up with politics?" just so I can broach a question about a big event or issue. A lot of my responses are "I don't do (?) politics," or just quixotic expressions. There is an atmosphere of militant apathy and hand-held distraction in general, so when these (evidently) militant Republicans blare out, there may be a further turn-off.

I don't reject disruptive politics, having engaged in some myself. But there is a difference between support and actions aimed at specific causes, and just another ill-tempered and arrogant look-at-me type who in some way resonates with Trump. What all of us who have lived through the 60s & 70s have to realize what tactics and actions we grew up with may not work anymore. Frankly, when the kind of thing seen at the Sanders' rallys went down 40 or 50 yrs ago, it causd a few to go over to the side of the militants, others to feel always-immobilizing shame, and the rest to walk away. It was called guilt tripping. Today, that doesn't work very well. Most of us have read the script, and it looks like B & W newsreel. There will be pushback or active disassociation from those who use these tactics.