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Fifth Column
Pubs Want Force to Quell Mostly Peacful Riots
2020-09-07
[Dallas News] New Dallas Morning News poll finds gaping partisan chasm on friction between Trump’s ’law and order’ approach and demands to end police brutality and racism.
Newspaper article front-page title is Texans Deeply Divided About Response to Protests, which is more fair than the on-line version - Rubber bullets? Tear gas? In Texas, most Republicans OK putting down protests by force; most Dems don’t support the tactics. Nice job vilifying the Pubs, by comparing apples to hippos.
Texans are deeply divided about the use of force to quell mostly peaceful protests against police brutality, with a new poll exposing a chasm of mistrust between Democrats who are largely sympathetic to mostly peaceful protesters and Republicans who back President Donald Trump's "law and order" crackdown on rioters and looters.

Just 15% of Democrats support deploying the military in response to mostly peaceful protests, as Trump has repeatedly threatened to use to quell riots and looting, compared with 70% of Republicans.
Whaddaya call those arguments? Straw Men? Red herrings? Or just selective comparisons?
"Let's face it, a lot of what is being called protests is actually riots," said conservative poll respondent James, 53, an insurance broker in Paris, Texas. "The heck with rubber bullets. People are taking people out of cars and killing people or beating people up. Those people should be shot."

Deandra, 48, a tax accountant who lives in West Dallas, told pollsters she strongly opposes the use of force to disperse protesters trying to shine a light on police brutality and racial injustice.
Two different issues, presented as opposite equivalences. Who is dividing the country?
Posted by:Bobby

#10  The wrong people are at the violent end of the stick here.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110   2020-09-07 21:54  

#9  the BLM asshole killing five Dallas cops

What? Mass shooting?? By a mostly peaceful BLM protestor?
Sssh! Back into the Memory Hole witcher..
Posted by: Vernal Tingle2781   2020-09-07 18:14  

#8  "Violence never settles anything - city fathers of Carthage"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-09-07 18:13  

#7  You need to understand that at Dallas Morning News the staff have a "CNN envy" thing going.

I remember coming to that conclusion a few years ago, just a bit before I started reading their crap with the BLM asshole killing five Dallas cops, and that just made it obvious.
Posted by: Raj   2020-09-07 17:27  

#6  DMN used to be the "kind of" conservative paper but is now the lefty rag in Dallas. Times Herald (RIP) was the most liberal paper when it was still in operation but left a void when it died.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2020-09-07 15:04  

#5  You need to understand that at Dallas Morning News the staff have a "CNN envy" thing going.
Posted by: ed in texas   2020-09-07 12:13  

#4  Yes, we oppose rubber bullets and tear gas cause we think it should be live ammo and flamethrowers.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2020-09-07 11:52  

#3  Other conclusions from the survey results, as reported in the link:

1. 62% of Republicans do not support the use of tear gas and rubber bullets against peaceful protestors.

2. 41% of Dems do not oppose deploying the military.

3. 51% of Dems do not oppose the use of tear gas and rubber bullets against confrontational protestors.

Selective data manipulation; shocking, I know.
Posted by: Bobby   2020-09-07 11:33  

#2  Of course, Trump is making the Dems lie in the violent disorderly unemployment created bed they made for themselves....

MSMDems will be complaining that Trump didn't do enough to stop their supporters ruining their voting plantations.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-09-07 10:13  

#1  Got to agree with the line of thought that says Trump is smart not to fall into the "authoritarian dictator" trap.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-09-07 10:04  

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