Have you figured out the pattern yet?

They shut down protests from Black Americans by claiming they are disrespectful to soldiers when black NFL athletes kneel, instead of stand for the National Anthem.

They shut down calls for gun control by claiming this is not the right time to talk about it because it's disrespectful to grieving victims and family members.

It's a ploy. Can you see it? Everything about our society is set up to resist change. Or more to the point, conservatives have figured out how to push the right set of buttons to keep their people in a state of incurious inaction.