When Does the George Floyd Rebellion Get Co-Opted?

After reading JEFFREY ST. CLAIR's "Roaming Charges: Mad Bull, Lost Its Way" I believe we're at a tipping point. If fence-sitting city councilmembers are joining the barricades and demanding the mayor pull back her troops, something has shifted.

What comes next is an attempt to co-opt and muffle the rebellion. The New York Times, for instance, has been very supportive of the uprising. Read the editorial by Jamelle Bouie, "The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It." It's excellent. But let's not forget what happened to the Women's March, splintered by turf wars and the obligatory charges of anti-Semitism, or the #Resistance, smothered in years of mainstream Russiagating. 

For the time being the mainstream mind managers are unwilling to take their foot off the accelerator. They've got Trump right where they want him. He's looking increasingly vulnerable, as vulnerable as he looked in the torchlight of Charlottesville the summer of 2017.

But a reaction will come, probably at the same time that legislation starts coursing through city councils to defund the police and replace them with social workers. Shaky Nancy Pelosi, who has gone to ground during the rebellion, will reappear to declare systemic change impossible during an economic crisis.

People must stay mobilized and continue to take to the streets. Don't be fooled by those who try to brake this movement by saying it's all a Putin plot or tainted by anti-Semitic bias. So far criticisms of violent outside agitators and Antifa anarchy have fallen flat, and so too has the Russia bogeyman. But that doesn't mean that the "Mighty Wurlitzer" won't be switched back on.