A lot of people don't understand what is happening, in part because they are surprisingly ignorant of the history of communism, and in part because they only watch liberal news and so don't actually realize the full scale of what is happening.

Racism is bad, some of the protestor, maybe even most, are peaceful.

It doesn't matter.

If the citizens of the United States do not stand up against what is happening, we are going to be living in a marxist state. It's not going to get easier to stand up by waiting first or living in denial either. The reason that normal citizens in China and Russia lost to communism is that they were either waiting to "really do something about it" until it got "really bad", or they just didn't believe that it would be "allowed to happen". Some just refused to see the truth until too late.

Successful Marxist revolutions have all been managed with a relatively small percent of the population who were complicit while the rest lived in denial or cowardly fear. The fear did not help, because once they get power they slaughter people indiscriminately. The belief that being quiet and neutral will save you is false.