The power of leftism isn't in leftism. It's power stolen from the people who believe leftist lies.

Leftism lies, consequentially, usually with false accusation attacking reputation.

Because leftism cannot persuade by telling the whole truth.

And because leftists are unwilling to contemplate what that fact says about their ideology.

Because if leftists were willing to contemplate, they might feel compelled to stop being leftists.

Which leftists are afraid to do, because... Leftism lies, consequentially, usually with false accusation attacking reputation.

How much less race hysteria would there be if they simply reported the facts?

Democrats Attempt Progress by Eating Their Own History

How can Trump, a real estate developer, who never served a day in the military, and I, a high-tech nerd, who also never served, get this, but General Petraeus, along with so many others who should know better, not get it?

Civil rights aren't defended by putting your history down the memory hole! The Democrats, over the last 55 years, have proved that, at great personal cost to millions, of their minority wards, especially. A free man does not require victim status! And a kept man is not a free man.

My smattering of knowledge of history is enough to know that we (The United States, especially the victorious Union) chose to respect the equal rights of those who had been the defeated Confederacy, and not establish a policy of rubbing their noses in it, then, or now, like a lot of vicious, malicious, gossiping old hens, squawking "traitors! Traitors! Traitors!"

It's disgusting. The more so because leftism-ridden Democrats are leading the charge, like some deranged spirit of Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest, arriving first, with the most, in an attack on their own rear.

 Trump opposes effort to rename US military bases named for confederate commanders Jun. 11, 2020 - 4:49 - Reaction from National Diversity Coalition for Trump member Bruce Levell and former Bloomberg pollster Doug Schoen.

The left lies about black lives. And the police. And most other things.

Here is the proof, from 2017, that black lives don't matter to the left. Their agenda is the overthrow of the United States, by any means (including the sacrifice of as many black, or any other color, lives as) necessary. The assassin of this woman was a conspiracy theorist, a thug, and ex-con, who believed the leftist lies of "systematic racism" in the police force. Those unsupported accusations were his motive. Now, Democrats, who are, practically speaking, now synonymous with leftists, are are very quiet, or defending "protest" while a dozen more have been killed, and many more injured, already, in riots across the nation, provoked by the same lying leftist conspiracy theory.

But, not everything leftism says is literally false: when a leftist tells us they mean to "burn it all down", that's literally true (reading "all" as hyperbole, of course they mean to keep the "good stuff" for themselves). The lie is in the assumption that leftism has a right to do so.

https://nypost.com/2017/07/05/the-assassination-of-officer-miosotis-familia/

Does anybody really know why George Floyd's time was up? Does anybody really care?

Consider how many people die in the custody of, or immediately after having been in the custody of, EMTs. What if those are disproportionately "people of color"? Would that prove that EMTs are systematically racist?

The fact is, we don't know, from objective evidence, that police action was the cause of death. That's an assumption. And we don't know, if it was the cause, that it was due to malice.

Did you think about who George Floyd was, and why things happened the way they did? Did you try to understand, before you looted, or "protested", or stood down and watched, as cities burned? Did you think about who Derek Chauvin is, really? 

Do you really care?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation