BLM the official message of the NBA

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We need accountability in this nation. Our police force has run for way too long without enough accountability. Our politicians have gone far too far without any accountability. After watching that video Dahlsim posted, BLM seems like they haven't been given enough accountability to stop the snowball that is rolling. NRA has no accountability. 

We need to get people into office that will boil all these grievances down to specifics so we can get to a state of accountability. 
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Accountability and specifics.

Agree 100%.  That's actually what election time is supposed to be for accountability.  The system only gives us a binary choice in the end but people do have the ability to hold leaders responsible. 

Those elected leaders are the ones that get hired to spend full time hours working on the specifics of solutions. 
Everyday Americans realistically aren't going to have that time or take out that much time to figure out specific solutions even if they have the time.  Its not going to happen. 

So we the people are responsible for holding the right people accountable. That's why there's so much noise right now in the news about who is actually responsible for the carnage happening in so many US cities. If we hold the wrong political leaders accountable then there won't be solutions.

Well, like you say, there are only two parties from which to choose, and they are ideologically diametrically opposed to each other.  And the power of incumbency, for the most part, allows them to escape any accountability.
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This is very true ... 

  And the power of incumbency, for the most part, allows them to escape any accountability.

but the power incumbency is driven from an ignorance and apathy in the general public. 
So at the end of the day the power is still there with the people IF the majority of the people, or even a passionate enough minority, were driven by the right values or dare I say 'righteousness'. 

So the real root problem actually is a very, very old one: 

Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

Yep, and you've hit the nail on the head as to the real issue in our country, and opened my floodgates!

Okay, so the problem is that 50% or more of the adult population in the US has rejected the very notion of the existence of absolute truth, which truth would necessarily descend from an absolute source, i.e., God.  And they also reject the existence of God, so there is no longer any basis for absolute truth.  Progressing farther from that point, there then is no real basis for our system of law.  "In those days, every man did what was right in his own eyes".  This is where the far left in this country basically is.  Having rejected absolute truth, they see no reason to continue to obey our framework of laws, which ultimately and largely date back to the Ten Commandments. 

Another and associated reason for the current rejection of traditional values in the Western world is the acceptance of mechanistic Darwinian evolution.  If humans are the result of millions of years of survival of the fittest, and have no divine, intrinsic value, then we should not be surprised if people who believe that way feel free to assault, intimidate, and marginalize those who believe differently.  If we are merely cosmic accidents floating around in the universe, then what reason is there to love one's neighbor as oneself?  Why not take what you want from others, if you have the power to do so?  You may take it with your own hand, or you may take it by aligning with a political power that will do that for you.  

Thus, if some people see that their neighbor possesses a better gadget than they do, then they feel like that should not be the case.  With this mentality, it is easy for politicians to whip people up into a state of class envy and jealousy.  At that point, the people with this mentality will then vote for whichever politician promises to give them these things, supposedly free of charge.  But the problem is, nothing is free and somebody will actually be paying up. 

Also, as Benjamin Franklin opined, a republican form of government is a great thing, if you can keep it.  And that it is only viable for a moral people.  He was well aware of human nature and a student of history.  As soon as people discover that they can vote for themselves money from the general treasury, then a republic is in trouble.  Okay, rant off!