Once again, the chasm between the people's smarts and the regime's agenda is on display

Bookworm says she's noticed a waking-up among the indoctrinated cattle-masses on her Facebook newsfeed:

With the exception of the handful of hard, hard, Daily Kos Leftists I have as friends, the rest of my non-conservative friends are pretty much knee-jerk Progressives, who will always tote the Planned Parenthood load and who are enthusiastic Hillary supporters — and these Progressives seem to be getting fed-up.

Today, three of those friends posted Facebook stories criticizing Michael Brown and the rioters, and supporting the notion that only a suicidal person or a moron would ignore a cop’s instructions and go for his guns. Another friend, who lives in the wealthy hills of Oakland and is a completely reliable Republican attacker and Obama supporter, went ballistic about the Ferguson protests in his City. And lastly, someone who skates on the thin line between Rolling Stone leftism and complete insanity put up a furious post excoriating Hillary’s $300,000 UCLA speaking fee — to applause from his reliably leftist friends.

Maybe I’m just hoping for an early Christmas present, but these flashes of common sense from people who have anesthetized themselves for more than a decade are heartening. It seems to be that slowly, and without even being aware of what’s happening, they’re clawing their way out of the intellectual abyss in which they’ve fallen. I know the majority will fall right back into the rabbit hole but some of them might just find their way out onto stable, open ground.

I've had a few such surprises myself.  Folks whose eyeballs are generally floating in Kool-Aid have expressed an understanding that Ferguson was a local law-enforcement issue and that Brown was the bad guy.

Which hopefully means that the vulgarity of the Most Equal Comrade hosting Al Sharpton for his 87th White House visit will be apparent to more people than would have been the case before this sham got started:

The president no doubt passed up the opportunity to direct Sharpton to the Treasury Department up the street, which would surely love to have him visit and make good on all the taxes he has avoided paying through the years.

A New York Times report found that there are $4.5 million in state and federal tax liens against him and his businesses. 

If the rest of the country had Sharpton’s accountant, there would be no reason for anyone to call for tax cuts. Our complex and onerous tax code would be rendered irrelevant by simple nonpayment.

Despite a disdain for the Internal Revenue Service that would make the average anarcho-libertarian blush (among other embarrassments and scandals), Sharpton has leveraged himself into respectability with the Democratic establishment by making himself central to any national racial controversy. 

By rights, he should have given up any pretense to criminal forensics after his defamatory role in the Tawana Brawley hoax in the 1980s, but there he was at Ferguson, Mo., suggesting the worst despite what turned out to be strong evidence that Officer Darren Wilson acted lawfully.

When the grand jury found there was insufficient evidence to indict Wilson, Sharpton pronounced that the Ferguson protesters had lost the battle, but not the war. 

What are they going to do to win, go out and find another cop to falsely accuse of a racial assassination and attempt to railroad into an indictment and conviction?

The Ferguson story has progressed from the tragedy of the initial incident to the outrage of the violence of the protests to a new phase of charade. The federal government must pretend to do something because it must . . . do something.
But what national initiative is going to stop police officers from defending themselves when they feel as if they are under mortal threat, as Officer Wilson says he did?
The Justice Department investigation of Wilson on civil-rights grounds will almost certainly lead nowhere. 

The standard for such a prosecution is high, and if the evidence didn’t merit a routine criminal prosecution, there is no way it can reasonably support a civil-rights charge. 

Certainly not everyone is now on to the Most Equal Comrade, but that segment of the population will surely grow some more as a result of his association with the most obvious fraud in post-American public life today.