[RenegadeXR]

Originally Posted by cellsafemode

It's not a few bad apples,...it's been going on forever and it shouldn't.

The thing that I've learned as I get older in life is that, unfortunately, it's really hard to tell in a lot of instances if there's a silent majority of people who do good. The people who do evil obviously get attention.

I think that overarching fact describes the current state of U.S. politics in a nutshell. The media and politics are in a perpetual loop where the rule of thumb is things always escalate and rarely deescalate. Always focus on the negative without proposing a solution. Throw more oil on the fire.

I think both for those crooked cops, and for the looters, while it's hard in good conscious to label them as "few bad apples" due to how many there are, it's still not the majority. And the sad reality is, regardless of race or occupation, people who suck just plain suck, and they need to be kept in check by their peers, properly subjected to the repercussions of law, and given a minimum media spotlight. I have a personal belief that being an a**hole crosses all social boundaries, and in the U.S., we're long overdue to start calling those people out not in a generalized way but as individual people.