It's odd to me, the need to over-complicate things like this. We've had escalating protests like this for 10+ years, plus recurring bursts over the last litera

It's odd to me, the need to over-complicate things like this. We've had escalating protests like this for 10+ years, plus recurring bursts over the last literal century. And the conclusion is... it's the Iraq war causing all this? We had active, publicly-supported policies in place to militarize the police before Iraq and Afghanistan. The last civil rights movement included much more violent anti-protester crackdowns than Portland (Kent Stake & Selma come to mind, let alone the implicitly-supported KKK). Hell - who remembers the images from Ferguson 6 years ago? Just because sh*t is going down doesn't mean it's the barbarian hordes marching on Rome. This has been going down for a WHILE. The president hasn't changed that.