(September 3, 2021 at 10:47 am)Spongebob Wrote: Was watching news videos and there's a guy who has done a lot of research and polling on people who attended the Jan 6 insurrection and has come up with a basic motivational factor for these people. Unsurprisingly, it is mostly white males from non-red states, educated and well paid people with good jobs and homes and such; a surprising number of business owners and doctors and lawyers and so forth. They are basically afraid they are being replaced by brown people, or rather non-whites. This is just another round of the usual nativism that has surged in multiple eras of US history. I fit every category the research turned up except that I'm not religious and yet I don't have any of this fear of being replaced. Why does this grip some people but not others. I actually work with some people who attended rallies in their home towns on Jan 6. The only reason they didn't go to DC was the time and costs involved.
I agree that it’s largely hypernationalism fueling this thing. However, their overriding motivation seems to the the destruction of democracy, intended or not.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
