An open question you're free to take personally,esp if you think looting is common and that all protesters are out for that. Helps too if you believe cops have a license to kill w/o due process, and/or that 'good people' should assume that role in their absence.
From the 'middle', I don't ascribe traits of either party's outliers to all their members. Radicals support the left and fascists support the right. That doesn't let me label either as such by the small percent of either party that's heard the most. And nobody should be surprised that the media are complicit in fanning the flames of social discord by, as usual, trying to 'out-scoop' each other to get share and ad revenue.
Fortunately, though my neighbors are a mix politically we're close enough not to let our political discussions go beyond the many things we agree on. What sucks is when politics could become as contentious as 'claim-jumping' like where this thread began.
btw, I can't get over thinking that while we will soon vote nationally so many of us are thinking 'locally', the world we see day to day vs what someone else does. There are reds in the city and blues in the country. Being a good neighbor or bad doesn't discriminate by race, ethnicity, culture, religion, gender, etc. As they say, "You is or you ain't".
