08-26-2021, 01:49 PM
(08-26-2021, 09:07 AM)David Horn Wrote:(08-25-2021, 04:26 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(08-25-2021, 01:39 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You're lucky we are talking on the internet. In real life, I would have wiped that silly smile off your face. So, how do you feel about ending up on a cold slab or being left to rot on a street?
Well, I will end up something like that anyway in 10-30 years. And although you may prefer violence to defend your cultural ID, our side will not need to operate on yours that way. We will just prevail democratically, and you will just have to painlessly go along for a while with the new consensus and get more educated, at least to some extent.
Meanwhile, I suppose you plan to defend your cultural ID by joining a militia. Or are you really going to put your body where your mouth is? Your militias will have to be put down violently, if they are violent; but that should be comparatively easy, and if you are violent alone or within this militia, you could end up on a cold slab or being left to rot on a street, or in jail for a long time, and your guns taken away. Perhaps re-education camps will do the trick to deprogram you? Who knows.
I suspect a lot of rhetoric and little to no action as the response to the white-right slowly losing power. Are there alwasy a few violent radicals on the fringe? Sure, but Classic doesn't seem cut out to be one of them. People with much to lose tend to temper their actions.
The white racists of the "Aryan Nations" era are aging into irrelevance if not irrelevance. As an example, fascist pig David DuKKKe is now 71. Fascist pig Tom Metzger died last year at age 82. They seem to have not fathered progeny to continue their tradition. Any such tradition is too troublesome for what little it offers.
Even with the fantastically-immature yet nearly-senile Donald Trump (I have known people like that, and typically they are alcoholics who don't get the message until they are near death from cirrhosis) as President, Americans on the whole are growing up. Neo-Nazis and KKK creeps are more a sick joke than a menace.
There is always a rearguard defense of traditions whose nastiness remains and lose attractiveness because the world changes and neither the traditions nor their exponents do -- until the people die off. Classic X'er seems like the rearguard defense of ways. Means? I don't know. I suggested that he get help from the mental-health system. Surprisingly that works better on people who are under stress and do not fit one of the diagnostic criteria of the DMS-V than on people with chemical dependency, low intelligence, narcissism, autism, ADHD, or extreme disorders of character. Pastoral counseling might work in his case.
One need not be crazy to do crazy things -- not to be confused with theatrical performances or their simulation. Enmeshing oneself in a violent and bigoted culture such as the KKK is a bad idea, of course. Self-hate may be an issue, as in the fellow who is one-eighth black and hates that part of him and thus aligns with white racists. (OK, none of us can choose our ancestors, but most of us can choose our behaviors). Adolf Hitler, Reinhard Heydrich, and Adolf Eichmann all dealt with rumors of Jewish ancestry that scared them... in the worst possible way.
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.