RE: The Future of Democracy
March 9, 2022 at 1:54 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2022 at 2:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
In 2017, a slim majority of white americans, 55%, believed that reverse racism was a bigger issue than regular old traditional american racism. The number jumped up to a whopping 75% of republicans by 2019. By 2021, "CRT" was the right wing issue. They've not been softening on this, and centrists are still (as they've been since 2016) suggesting that the way forward is to negotiate with open and single minded bigots for some of the bigoted things they want, in return for some small pittance of non cooperation on..say, paying our bills, or repairing our roads. They are already sympathetic to the great replacement bullshit. Lower and middle income whites have been shown to be repeatedly and persistently susceptible to this messaging.
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/24/559604836...ed-against
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/po...on-806242/
It's culture war yesterday, cultur war today, culture war tommorrow. Culture war forever. Until rahowa comes - which some people are already trying to incite. See the separatist who copped to opening fire on police during the summer protests in the belief that it would escalate violence and start a new civil war. The mainstream (on bothsides™) is giving the reich wing militants political and social cover - and has been for some time now. They are not now, nor have they ever been lone wolves.
If you'd like links on how the centrists and the moderate left view the same non-thing through a different lens, I can supply you with those as well - right wing polls put the number slightly higher, but they're chiefly engaged in building consent for this ridiculous notion - so, grain of salt along with a heaping dose of realizing that any given bigot is more likely to let their freak flag fly if they think they're talking to a friendly audience. Mind you, I won't just be pointing the finger. I'm wildly conservative on fiscal and foreign policy, and wildly liberal on domestic policy and social issues. I think that they're traitors to a man and see no way this ends without their heads on pikes. I'm not interested in hearing their grievances - which is..in and of itself, anti-democratic.
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/24/559604836...ed-against
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/po...on-806242/
It's culture war yesterday, cultur war today, culture war tommorrow. Culture war forever. Until rahowa comes - which some people are already trying to incite. See the separatist who copped to opening fire on police during the summer protests in the belief that it would escalate violence and start a new civil war. The mainstream (on bothsides™) is giving the reich wing militants political and social cover - and has been for some time now. They are not now, nor have they ever been lone wolves.
If you'd like links on how the centrists and the moderate left view the same non-thing through a different lens, I can supply you with those as well - right wing polls put the number slightly higher, but they're chiefly engaged in building consent for this ridiculous notion - so, grain of salt along with a heaping dose of realizing that any given bigot is more likely to let their freak flag fly if they think they're talking to a friendly audience. Mind you, I won't just be pointing the finger. I'm wildly conservative on fiscal and foreign policy, and wildly liberal on domestic policy and social issues. I think that they're traitors to a man and see no way this ends without their heads on pikes. I'm not interested in hearing their grievances - which is..in and of itself, anti-democratic.
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