witchmo said:
Turn Seattle (and Portland, for that matter) over to the anarchists and let it go. They'll come around as "true believers" in the reason for having and enforcing law in any nation. Sometmes the really hard lessons are the ones we learn the best.
Logical.
On the other hand, it's also pretty clear these groups are on a modified version of Maoism Stage 2. Maoism stage 2 is where the vanguard starts to attack outposts and isolated government officials, for the purpose of instilling fear AND showing the impotence of government, causing the public confidence in government to dwindle.
The twist that BLM and Antifa are doing is to use elaborately developed less-than-lethal tactics to inflict harm on law enforcement, hopefully to incite an over-reaction. If that doesn't happen, they still win because law enforcement has to stand and take the beatings, conditioning them (at best) to the defensive or (at worst) to simply withdraw and force political leadership to appease. We've seen local leadership (Democrat mayors/governors) actually default to the withdrawal and appeasement posture.
The great irony here is that those local leaders agree with the insurgent aims and are responding with appeasement in order to fuel chaos to make the federal government appear responsible for the unrest. Again.....Democrat militias burning their own constituencies with the acquiesence of local government in order to undermine legitimacy of the federal government. Seems clear Dems thought Trump (who they see as a slobbering neo-Nazi) would impulsively over-react and then fully own the unrest. That hasn't happened, and now we have food deserts in inner cities and Trump is the only public official trying to help. (He's out-playing them, for now.)
Antifa/BLM are clearly beyond Stage 1 (organizational mode). BLM has raised enormous amounts of money and has clearly infiltrated the entirety of opinion forming elites and receive virtually unanimous media and corporate support. And Antifa is delivering pallets of bricks and van-loads of out of state muscle to major metro areas all over the country, so they've clearly got their infrastructure built.
This will not go away after Nov 3rd. If Trump wins, they will escalate the offensive we see now. If Biden wins, then they will bring cancel culture to the suburbs. Hold on tight, fellas....Antifa and BLM are no longer dependent on Democrat donor networks. It's going to be a bumpy ride.