The Future of Democracy

[JairCrawford]

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.

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 is giving radicalized militants political and social cover - and has been for some time now. They are not now, nor have they ever been lone wolves.

Is there not a chance that CRT is being used as a “wedge issue”, and in and of itself may not be an actual concern to a lot of centrists? I don’t think centrists in VA voted for Youngkin because of “CRT bad”, but rather, because they felt disenfranchised by a lack of childcare while the schools kept closing for COVID. The far right then took this frustration and combined it with making a boogeyman out of CRT to also appeal to the crazies and this combination worked. At least, that’s my theory. But maybe I’m too optimistic?

I’m curious to see any interesting polls you’ve got.