02-20-2022, 01:17 AM
(02-17-2022, 11:01 AM)David Horn Wrote:(02-16-2022, 08:21 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: the unironically white supremacists haven't started really reemerging until just a few years ago, and like 2/3 of them say some variation of "I was liberal until like 3 years ago".
Maybe in some places this may be true, but not in the parts of smalltown and rural America I've known since birth. The most aggressive White-Nationalists live in areas that were typically lily white until recently, with the less aggressive types living in areas that remain that way. In short, they are either afraid of 'others' or manifestly distrust them at the very least. More to the point, they assume life is a zero-sum game, so these interlopers are threats to their lifestyles.
None of this has to be rational' it's all emotion. Oh, and on another point, they've been there forever. It's a tribal thing that dates back far into prehistory.
I have noticed that in my rural part of Michigan, blacks have been moving in, and I presume largely from the cesspool that is Greater Detroit -- so that their kids can get solid K-12 education and perhaps get away from some questionable influences. Some ways of life lead to at the worst a servile working-class life, and some at best lead to prison or the morgue.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.