Democrats to the Public: 'Please Riot'

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It's that time of year again. Elections are coming on with all the force and speed of an out-of-control freight train, which means Democrats are going to start acting as rabid animals backed into a corner. 

But Democrats are having something of an issue. Every riot starts with a martyr. Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Saint Floyd were all solid sparks to foment fear, hatred, and racial animus enough to ignite a nationwide fire. 

For America, these riots were awful, but for the Democrats, they were what dreams were made of. The legacy media grew fat on racially-based outrage, anti-law enforcement narratives, and intersectional victimization talking points for days. Every time a city burned, the Democrats rejoiced in private and stoked the fires more in public. 

These riots so dominated the public consciousness that they leaked into pop culture and began galvanizing votes, not just within leftist circles, but outside them, in the normie-sphere. Everyone wanted to show off how woke they were. Influencers appeared at marches posing in fashionably with their hand-made BLM sign, video game developers put it on their start screens, and the NFL and NBA focused more on messaging than the sports. 

It infused the Democrats with power, and there's nothing Democrats love more than power. Ever since the first BLM riot, Democrats have been constantly trying to refill the needle so they can jab it back into their arm. For some reason, they just can't seem to get the spoon hot enough to cook it.

They tried all sorts of methods to generate outrage. 

Remember Jordan Neely? After Daniel Penny was acquitted, the legacy media released headlines tailor-made to foment the same BLM outrage they used to. It didn't work. 

They tried the same thing with Nex Benedict in an attempt to create a "trans Floyd," but it fell through as well, thanks to the fact that Benedict was a suicide, not a murder, as they were hoping it would be.

There was even an attempt to generate more outrage after Kyle Rittenhouse was found innocent of all charges after he killed two people and injured one in self-defense. Funny enough, the media often made the race of the people Rittenhouse had to shoot ambiguous, which led many to believe he'd shot three black people, which was the point.

Fast forward to today, and the left has a new martyr in Renee Good, a woman who was shot dead as she brought her car to bear against an ICE officer. The issue here, just like in the Rittenhouse incident, is that the person they want you to be outraged over is white, and a white person dying isn't exactly going to get the adrenaline pumping. 

In fact, and I know I keep referencing this video repeatedly, the fact that Good is white is causing people on the radical left to restrain their outrage because "white tears are not helpful." 

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This hasn't stopped them from trying. As Ward Clark reported on Sunday, Kristi Noem had to step in and call out Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for purposefully trying to "inflame the public" and effectively stoke the fires of a riot: 

I would say that these locals, if you look at what Governor Walz has said, if you look at what Mayor Frey has said, they have extremely politicized and inappropriately talked about the situation on the ground in their city. They have inflamed the public. They have encouraged the kind of destruction and violence that we have seen in Minneapolis these last several days, and I would encourage them to grow up, get some maturity, act like people who are responsible, who want people to be safe and the right thing to be done.

To be sure, there are more than a few paid actors out there trying to turn the heat up through rhetoric they're claiming is representative of the people, but as it stands, there's far more interest in the marches happening in support of Iran rejecting Islamic rule. This is bad news for Democrats who need that attention for their causes. 

With the midterms approaching, and the Democrats more or less empty-handed in terms of narrative, they have to get something going. Their only recourse is to try to turn a woman who got close to running over a government official for the cause into a martyr and claim that she did it in an effort to stop Trump's thugs from bringing harm to the innocent people of America. 

Check out this article from The Seattle Today. Notice how they're making this, not just about immigrants, but the idea that you could be next. 

If they can get a riot going, they can spawn them elsewhere, and soon Democrats will have so much airtime dedicated to their narrative that it would be hard to escape it. The votes and funding would begin flowing again, and maybe, just maybe, they can take some political power back. 

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