Leftist Philosophy Destroys Everything with Which it Comes in Contact.

I believe that is exactly what most on the left have advocated. The tearing down of the statues is an extreme response to the successful bureaucratic opposition against doing such things. I'm not a fan of destroying these historical items either but as they are presented, they make enemies into heroes and heritage that should be shrouded in shame into something to be proud.

By all appearances, there is an effort underway to remove and sanitize our past which some find offensive. It was offensive, but we're the only nation to end slavery by force of arms and 600K gave their lives in the effort. For good or bad, it is still our history and our ancestors, on both sides of the issue deserve to be remembered.

I don't believe this is really about what the stated goals are. This has arisen too fast in too many places for it not to have some shadowy organizer.

Yes, I believe the shadowy organizers to be White Supremacists who are delegitimatizing rightful protests against police violence into violent riots against society. And the people and the media are gobbling it up no matter which race they are. It doesn't excuse what people are doing, but I do believe there is evidence of this being deliberately engineered.

In fact, I would say that history has been successfully erased. It appears no one younger than 40 know of the Tulsa massacre in Oklahoma. An event very similar to the riots going on now where black businesses are suffering in Minneapolis, Chicago, and elsewhere. This time, however, these Supremacists have taken places of power and are manipulating law enforcement and the media to run the narrative they want.

So, I do not think tearing down monuments erases history. I think people omitting if not outright re-writing actual history books or using monuments to celebrate people who should be by any other historical precedents be reviled. I'm not saying tear down the statues to all rich white people who owned slaves, but those who actively defended such things and never renounced such ideas but rather conceded to the Union. These are not the same thing as is evidence of alarming number of people who still believe in outdated ideas such as racial superiority.

I think you and I know that erasing history isn't in anyone's favor and that there should be appropriate commemorations to these awful things without celebrating those who committed these atrocities to human beings who are now the ancestors to modern American citizens.

We don't see eye to eye, even though we seem to come to the same conclusion that some shadowy group is behind it.
You see White Supremacists making some kind of false flag operation, which I don't see at all as an organized body.
I see Leftist organizations like Soros or MoveOn who want to destabilize our country.

The reason why a police officer spoils a whole department, while a riot doesn't spoil a peaceful protest is easily explained. One is an organized government funded body, and the other is an independent nonprofit. It makes perfect sense for an organized government funded body to protect members of it's organization by not only giving softer reprehends to it's members that would otherwise put citizens years, if not life sentences. They are held at a lower standard by law enforcement when they should be held in a higher standard.

There have been steps over the years to remove radical members of law enforcement yet we still see some amount of complacency when it comes to police brutality, and unarmed civilian homicide by cop. These are in need of being addressed and it makes perfect sense for taxpayers to demand that police departments scrutinize their members carefully if their job is to enforce laws rather than break them to fund their own departments.

You need to think bigger than organizations being left or right. Both are owned by major corporations and the public is caught up in their privatization of the federal government. You say Sorors, they say Kochs. You say MoveOn, they say Proud Boys... You say Trump, they say Biden.
It's all very binary and all of it serves to get you to conform to one political movement or the other.

Yet, people cry for term limits and do not understand how they work. If you believe only one party to be good values, policy, and competence then you effectively support a one-party system. Putting that aside, no matter what narrative you ingest and regurgitate, it seems stupid to allow Trump to remain in office because he is somehow a threat to the status quo.

He is the status quo. So is Biden. Neither deserve more than a single term if we cannot have a third option.

If Trump is the status quo, why is most of the establishment Republicans, the Kochs, and formerly conservative 'Never Trumpers' against him? He's a danger to the status quo, and Biden has no idea what's going on anyway.

Are most of the establishment Republicans against him?

Seems to me they mostly postulate in the media and online but their actions show more complacency than defiance. After all, they had their chance to impeach him six months ago and didn't batter so much an eye when they threw that chance away.

So, I'm not buying it.

One or two outliers notwithstanding but it's not like their political career will be going anywhere anyway so there is no risk in throwing them out as so-called "RINOs".

Note the total opposition in the first two years of his term, with the establishment types in charge of both houses of congress. They didn't aid in the Russian delusion, but they didn't stand against it either. They couldn't back impeachment as Trump now has overwhelming support from the Republican base.

And no one should have that much power.

Who is funding them, and how do they keep the funding secret? We know who funds the leftist groups, so if there is a vast, white supremacy movement, someone must be giving them the money. When you find out, post it; until then you're just postulating a reality that isn't so.

I haven't excused any group. There are an alarming number of White Supremacist groups that cropped up in this decade. Most of them are probably harmless but a few of them very militant.

I have also postulated that some people in the media and some in the police department may be behind these attacks. There is video evidence of this so it's not postulating reality so much as it is reality. Men and women in black with backpacks taking hammers and spray paint. Strategically breaking and tagging sites to be burned or looted later. Encouraging the escalation with little to no funding necessary. Running away at the sight of protesters, especially when they come baring phones to record their activity.

No matter what you believe, there is video evidence of an effort to delegitimize what started out as a peaceful protest.

I agree, a bunch of well-meaning protesters are being used as pawns.