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Answer to “There's nothing more frightening in America today than an angry White man”
I submit the following article from Mr. Robert Charles, but would change the title to, “There is nothing more frightening in America than an angry white nationalist.”
They fear their cultural dominance is being threatened and feel entitled to reclaim it through violence. They have come to realize that a true democracy and our democratic values, if applied equally as the Constitution demands, would devalue the privileges of being white…if everyone is treated the same and have the same opportunities then there is no advantage to being white anymore. Rather than see that as social progress, they are enraged and want to preserve and/or reclaim that cultural dominance by the only means they know how: (1) undermine our democratic values and (2) react with anger, intimidation, and violence. As the FBI and DHS noted in a report about two years ago, the biggest threat to our national security is domestic white supremacy groups that are being encouraged by all the recent white nationalist propaganda and politics (i.e., Trump and his GOP minions). I’m not a minority but I’m viewed by the far right as a liberal (despite the fact I was a registered Republican for almost 20 years as a true conservative but left the party after it started to become what it is today)…and they hate me just as much as a minority (a traitor to “my kind&rdquo😉 and think I deserve to die just as much. As one Trumper told me when I politely asked him to move his truck because he was blocking me from leaving a parking spot at Home Depot, “the Revolution is coming…1776…all your liberals will be dead…and I hope I’m the one to shoot you and your son.” Yes, my 3 year old son was standing next me…why he assumed I was a liberal I don’t know as I didn’t talk politics or say anything about his Trump stickers everywhere on his truck. He went on this rant when a police officer patrolling the parking lot stopped and told him he had to move or be ticketed for obstructing traffic.

Answer to “There's nothing more frightening in America today than an angry White man”

fishline79 7 Jan 29
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"I’m not a minority"
Sorry in fascism everyone is a minority except the "leader" and right now the colony is searching for a new Queen since Queen Trump has become legally enfeebled.
As for being a Republican I must ask why?
Political parties only assist fascism regardless of party.
I'm originally from rural Alabama under the thrall of George C. Wallace so I know damned well democrats can be just as fascist as republicans.
I would become Hindu before I would join a political party, and I'll never ever be a damned Hindu or any other religion especially the really bad ones, like Christianity.
I have always been hated for my non-conformity, but it's appropriate considering my hatred of the vast majority of conformist cowards that call themselves the American public.

Maybe you have heard this song, but just in case I'll send it.com/// I can partially agree with your opinion of political parties, but in a pluralistic society, I'm afraid there is no other way to delineate ideals. In Fascism there are no opposing viewpoints, hence, with two or more parties, at least there is the possibility of a consensus of opinions or preferences. With a dictator there can be no compromise, and I would argue that opposing ideals are necessary to a "democratic" system. We call it "checks and balances"..

@fishline79 If you know about "checks and balances" then you've studied civics, something not taught anymore and that makes you more qualified for office then any Republican except possibly Liz Cheney.
Make education "cool" again, because in the right wing delusion their ignorance gives them no choice but to live by faith, so in fact ignorance becomes a virtue. It's just a sad fact, it goes way back, policy like "trickle down" was proven disastrous before it was implemented, but they learned enough to prop it up long enough to silence trade unions. All for the benefit of billionaires. If you're a Republican today in 2023 you're garbage and an international humanitarian shame.
Deal with it.

@Willow_Wisp Sad but true. See my reply to Fernapple below. We're fucked!

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Having watched this for a while now, and even for across the pond, you can not help see the bitter irony of, people trumpeting. "Make America Great Again." By proposing the ending of democracy, freedom of speech, and freedom of belief, which things are obviously even from here, exactly the things which did make America great.

Part of the problem seems to be complacency. Democracy has always been a cornerstone of what it takes to be a world leader in every field, and the world has always been led , economically, intellectually, and morally, by the most democratic countries of the time. Americans, especially the privileged whites, have always assumed, it seems to be a big part of your culture, your national myth, that a perfect democracy was achieved in the US in the late eighteenth century, and it needs no improvement. Yet much of the rest of the world has spent two centuries improving their democracy, and you are being left behind.

Someone on this site recently posted photos of people in the US cuing for miles down the roads, in order to cast their votes. I can not begin to tell you just how much national shame there would be here, if such a photo appeared here. The papers and news services would be in uproar, special programmes would be on the TV. and special meetings of parliament would be called. Yet all that seemed to happen in the US, was that someone tried to prevent them being given water !?

I think the main components of the problem are apathy, and lack of education, the former being a result of the latter. There is an appalling diminution of the level of education in both primary and secondary education, both in my country and yours. The average "American" student knows virtually nothing about history or literature or science or even their own language. Young people can't even write cursive script. The advent of PCs and the "Worldwide Web" has short-circuited their cognitive process. Teachers these days can't even assign research papers or other essays or theses, for fear that they will get some "A.I." app to do it for them. The old adage, "Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it", whomever first said it, is right, and not only have we forgotten, most people have never learned it in the first place! There should be intellectual requirements for voting, but of course, that is a chimera.

@fishline79 That is also very true. And the two are mutually supporting, for if you have complacency then there is no need for education.

@Fernapple It was a good idea but the "Founding Fathers" got it wrong from the start. To paraphrase the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all (wealthy white Land owning) men are created equal, etc."....Sorry, from the beginning they even established something called the "Electoral College" to insure that the tenets described therein would not apply to "all men" or even all women. The long Queues for voting you mentioned are an exception, which applies to the EX Confederate States. I never had to wait to vote in my home state of Pennsylvania, nor do blacks. Simply stated, the division that is occurring in our Congress is a continuation of the division that was happening in the first half of the 19th Century. The "Confederate" rallying cry in the " post war reconstruction era" was "The South will rise again". Well, my friends, it is rising again.

@fishline79 I did not think that the lines to vote were everywhere. But it would be regarded as even more of a national shame here, if they were in some places and not others.

@Fernapple Of course, you don't have the history that we have. Your country made a collective decision to do away with slavery long before Half of ours did. However, if you read Mansfield Park, by Jane Austin, and other literature, you see that the "Ruling Class" were still engaged in the trade. There is plenty of Hypocrisy to go around.

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