B: That's like saying Belgium should get its turn to conquer half of Europe because Germany and France also got their turn of doing that.
No, it's like if Belgium prepared to defend itself from invaders, and Germany and France accuse Belgium of trying to conquer Europe with its defensive measures.
C: When policemen are better armed then some soldiers then defunding them doesn't sound too extreme. They don't need a grade military gear.
I'm not necessarily against the idea of shifting funding from police to other resources. I think we depend on police to handle things they're just not equipped to handle, and it's bad for everyone involved. What I am against though is turning down reform efforts because they decided reform is now apparently defending police brutality.
D: The difference is what they did to prompt that opposition. Trump is a corrupt demagogue who should rightfully be resisted to protect democracy. Obama is just your standard center right politician who just happened to be black.
And Bush, and Bush, and Clinton? I'm not going to agree with Obama being on the right necessarily, but there's no shortage of white center-right presidents who got just as much crap as Obama. Freaking, people still claim Bush did 9/11.
I am well aware that Republicans don't like FDR, or Johnson, or anyone who overtly helped out the poor.
I'm gonna have to ask you to back this up. Their efforts were overt, sure, but did they actually help the poor? The evidence for that is thin at best.
If you don't credit banning racist segregation with an improvement in civil rights, then I don't know what to tell you. It's patently ridiculous.
I wanna expand on my response to this. Because I compared banning segregation to banning drugs, and I can see the obvious objection to comparing racial segregation to illegal drugs as non-comparable things, but the connection on the enforcement is very direct.
Goldwater's protest to the Act of 1964 was not that people should be allowed to be racist. That wasn't his complaint. His complaint was that the federal government passing laws controlling citizen's behaviors and tasking itself to enforce those standards required a nation-wide police state to enforce them and would set the precedent for misuse of power in the future. The very next administration after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed started the War on Drugs, widely regarded as a civil rights failure.