I believe we are witnessing a fight between the old social order of whites-first, males-first, straights-first and the new egalitarian social order. Red vs. Blue. The Christian die-hards are joining the Red side because they oppose anything which threatens the dominant male, submissive female as parents family model. I am singling them out because their voting bloc is a huge contribution to DT's 74,000,000 vote total, they are religious about voting. Racists and sexist of all stripes, almost all of whom don't recognize that they are racist (whites first) or sexist (males first), also join the Red side. The Blue side is similarly a cobbled-together collection of various and sundry factions, including people like myself who don't even like the Democratic party all that much.
So my answer to your question is this: they want more of Trump. They want more of what we can now call the old society of males and whites and straights getting all or most of the privileges. They want exactly what Trump has been delivering. You see those enormous flags with Trump's name in huge letters? That's code for "I want a society where my white privilege does not get diluted, I want to go back to the 1950s."
It's more than white privilege. It's complicity from the law enforcement and military. Those folks have been drinking the kool aid too. When I took my 10-year old son to the protests against the 2003 war, he picked up a stick from a garbage can where someone else had discarded it. In seconds a police officer confronted him. "I could have you arrested. You can't have any sticks." Everyone in that protest had to tear the sign off their sticks and throw them in the trash. We were kept in pens in certain areas--only allowed in organized places. There was NOTHING like that last week. NO preparation, or even worse, encouragement from the law enforcement sympathizers. When I saw the flags on POLES, I knew something was fishy. And weapons! Unbelievable. And HOW IN THE WOOGEDY did they build a gallows and noose. Was anyone watching? Where were they?
Oh, that has me baffled too. Who carried the lumber?? Well, the 2003 NYC protests had one thing in common with this pathetic gathering: aerial photographers were banned. Then so nobody could see how many of us were there, this time so they’d think there were more.
A Study of English: perfectly good words turned ugly
Witch. Liberal. Socialist. Fascist.
Only a few of the many many words that have been demonized, that have been used as epithets and insults.
Look on the back of any dime, any American 10 cent piece with FDR on the front, and you will see a fasces. It's an old Roman symbol, and perhaps even older than that. You can break one stick at a time. You can maybe break two sticks at a time, but it's harder to do. An entire bundle of sticks cannot be broken, they are firm, they are fast, they are strong.
Fascism, before it became a dirty word, was the same concept that inspires a Union. There is power and strength in the many. United we stand, divided we fall.
Then Mussolini came along, and his corrupt dictatorship turn a fascist into, not a union member, not a citizen who is part of a group that has integrity, not a citizen of the United States of liberty and justice for all, but a common corrupt criminal. Worse, a citizen with nasty social values.
Nowadays, dummies want to demonize the word "liberal." Liberals, and union members, are the people who gave us the weekend, the 40-hour work week, overtime, mandatory medical coverage, safety requirements, and much more. Before we had liberals, we had corporations who worked people to death with no safety precautions. People died on the job, this is not an exaggeration.
Anyone who lives in Canada or Europe, like Stuart Attewell and Chris Durban, knows full well that socialism is a very good thing for regular people. Like Chris says elsewhere on this page, the Socialist Party exists in France and elsewhere. Americans have been brainwashed by capitalist corporations into thinking that socialism is unfavorable, but it is propaganda designed to benefit corporations. They are almost universally stingy as hell. The capitalist system is upside down. The money is concentrated in a few people at the "top." The true value, the most important players, are the workers on the front line, what people falsely call the "bottom." The true Top of a financial entity is the people who provide the actual service, not the current parasites who siphon off as much money for themselves as they can. Tellers at a bank. Anyone in a grocery store or other retail store. You get the idea.
Oh, and have you noticed that Medicare and Social Security keep hanging around? The parrots who have been brainwashed by corporate America, especially the older retired Republicans who vote reliably, nevertheless keep socialism intact. It is well known by politicians that if you want to win an election, you have to please and appease the AARP crowd, or you're a goner. Medicare and Social Security will never disappear for that very reason.
Notice the long, long distance between the word "witch" and the words "bewitched" and "bewitching"? Ever wonder about the odd contrast?
Beautiful independent oracles, seers, and healers from earlier eras in history were demonized by ignorant masses, the MAGA crowd of their generation. Evil, despicable things were done to people in the Middle Ages, the Inquisition, all of that. Too ugly to print.
A witch is a beautiful person dedicated to magic and healing and self-sacrifice. Just saying.
"Elizabeth from Knoxville" should be glad it was just met with mace. This sort of thing normally earns a 5.56 mm response. Complexion protection, I guess.
While I agree with nearly every word you write I have this gnawing thought that "Race" isn't anywhere near what the real and true issue is, and this is it: It's ignorance coupled with illiteracy fostered by a broken educational system three generations in the making. Those "American Patriots" weren't exactly white supremacists by definition as they weren't supreme to anyone. Not one. They were mostly mayonnaise sandwich eating, undereducated morons and beer-guzzling Cretins following the clarion call of a leader with a vocabulary of less than 300 words. Let's be real. This wasn't about race at all, Lucian. I think you are dead wrong, Sir. I've walked through the Capitol building and it seems like 90% of the officers are black. The tapes I have seen look like a pitched battled between the Capitol Police and Santa Ana's troops overrunning the walls. Calls for help from the resigned Capitol Police Captain to the Pentagon (if reports are to be believed) were refused because of "Optics" which is probably closer to the truth. The embarrassment of troops at the mall isn't new. In 1932, right in D.C. Dougie MacArthur, George Patton and Dwight Eisenhower leading American Troops attacked over 10,000 disgruntled WWI veterans who were protesting. For weeks. DC violence isn't new. Todays morons breached the sacred towers, I know the difference. My point is that the violence isn't about race, it's about stupidity, the greed of too much power, the fear of television "optics." And the burning race issue? The black Bachelorette might pick the wrong white guy.
Many valid points. One might also add that humans are, by evolution, a communal creature striving for that community in a world of ever increasing digital and technological isolation. This sense of community has always been a safety net. Take it away, and people are going to grasp at other groups/beliefs/ideas that they may not necessarily believe in just to resume that sense of community and protection.
My father was born and raised in WWII-era Germany, he had a front-row seat for the entirety of Hitler's career. Diehard conservative, voted Republican ever since his arrival in the U.S. I call him "a relic of that era," because he never truly changed, he just adjusted so he could fit in without standing out as the non-PC person he fundamentally is. He certainly fits the label "evolutionary U-turn." My mom's siblings, similar German heritage, is much wiser and more astute.
I keep wondering what kind of government they thought they'd get out of this. It's sad on top of everything else it is.
I believe we are witnessing a fight between the old social order of whites-first, males-first, straights-first and the new egalitarian social order. Red vs. Blue. The Christian die-hards are joining the Red side because they oppose anything which threatens the dominant male, submissive female as parents family model. I am singling them out because their voting bloc is a huge contribution to DT's 74,000,000 vote total, they are religious about voting. Racists and sexist of all stripes, almost all of whom don't recognize that they are racist (whites first) or sexist (males first), also join the Red side. The Blue side is similarly a cobbled-together collection of various and sundry factions, including people like myself who don't even like the Democratic party all that much.
So my answer to your question is this: they want more of Trump. They want more of what we can now call the old society of males and whites and straights getting all or most of the privileges. They want exactly what Trump has been delivering. You see those enormous flags with Trump's name in huge letters? That's code for "I want a society where my white privilege does not get diluted, I want to go back to the 1950s."
It's more than white privilege. It's complicity from the law enforcement and military. Those folks have been drinking the kool aid too. When I took my 10-year old son to the protests against the 2003 war, he picked up a stick from a garbage can where someone else had discarded it. In seconds a police officer confronted him. "I could have you arrested. You can't have any sticks." Everyone in that protest had to tear the sign off their sticks and throw them in the trash. We were kept in pens in certain areas--only allowed in organized places. There was NOTHING like that last week. NO preparation, or even worse, encouragement from the law enforcement sympathizers. When I saw the flags on POLES, I knew something was fishy. And weapons! Unbelievable. And HOW IN THE WOOGEDY did they build a gallows and noose. Was anyone watching? Where were they?
Gallows likely pre-made at home and transported in the back of a pickup.
Oh, that has me baffled too. Who carried the lumber?? Well, the 2003 NYC protests had one thing in common with this pathetic gathering: aerial photographers were banned. Then so nobody could see how many of us were there, this time so they’d think there were more.
A Study of English: perfectly good words turned ugly
Witch. Liberal. Socialist. Fascist.
Only a few of the many many words that have been demonized, that have been used as epithets and insults.
Look on the back of any dime, any American 10 cent piece with FDR on the front, and you will see a fasces. It's an old Roman symbol, and perhaps even older than that. You can break one stick at a time. You can maybe break two sticks at a time, but it's harder to do. An entire bundle of sticks cannot be broken, they are firm, they are fast, they are strong.
Fascism, before it became a dirty word, was the same concept that inspires a Union. There is power and strength in the many. United we stand, divided we fall.
Then Mussolini came along, and his corrupt dictatorship turn a fascist into, not a union member, not a citizen who is part of a group that has integrity, not a citizen of the United States of liberty and justice for all, but a common corrupt criminal. Worse, a citizen with nasty social values.
Nowadays, dummies want to demonize the word "liberal." Liberals, and union members, are the people who gave us the weekend, the 40-hour work week, overtime, mandatory medical coverage, safety requirements, and much more. Before we had liberals, we had corporations who worked people to death with no safety precautions. People died on the job, this is not an exaggeration.
Anyone who lives in Canada or Europe, like Stuart Attewell and Chris Durban, knows full well that socialism is a very good thing for regular people. Like Chris says elsewhere on this page, the Socialist Party exists in France and elsewhere. Americans have been brainwashed by capitalist corporations into thinking that socialism is unfavorable, but it is propaganda designed to benefit corporations. They are almost universally stingy as hell. The capitalist system is upside down. The money is concentrated in a few people at the "top." The true value, the most important players, are the workers on the front line, what people falsely call the "bottom." The true Top of a financial entity is the people who provide the actual service, not the current parasites who siphon off as much money for themselves as they can. Tellers at a bank. Anyone in a grocery store or other retail store. You get the idea.
Oh, and have you noticed that Medicare and Social Security keep hanging around? The parrots who have been brainwashed by corporate America, especially the older retired Republicans who vote reliably, nevertheless keep socialism intact. It is well known by politicians that if you want to win an election, you have to please and appease the AARP crowd, or you're a goner. Medicare and Social Security will never disappear for that very reason.
Notice the long, long distance between the word "witch" and the words "bewitched" and "bewitching"? Ever wonder about the odd contrast?
Beautiful independent oracles, seers, and healers from earlier eras in history were demonized by ignorant masses, the MAGA crowd of their generation. Evil, despicable things were done to people in the Middle Ages, the Inquisition, all of that. Too ugly to print.
A witch is a beautiful person dedicated to magic and healing and self-sacrifice. Just saying.
I wish they could be persuaded to drink REAL poison; the digital kind isn't killing them.
That would be hydroxycholoroquine. *sly smile*
These people are perfect Trumpsters...ready, fire, aim!
step back from the kool aid Karen & Brad smh 🤦🏻♀️
"Elizabeth from Knoxville" should be glad it was just met with mace. This sort of thing normally earns a 5.56 mm response. Complexion protection, I guess.
My wife saw this live on TV, Jan. 6:
That guy with the Camp Auschwitz shirt, you know what it says on the rear of the shirt?
"Staff"
Camp Auschwitz Staff
While I agree with nearly every word you write I have this gnawing thought that "Race" isn't anywhere near what the real and true issue is, and this is it: It's ignorance coupled with illiteracy fostered by a broken educational system three generations in the making. Those "American Patriots" weren't exactly white supremacists by definition as they weren't supreme to anyone. Not one. They were mostly mayonnaise sandwich eating, undereducated morons and beer-guzzling Cretins following the clarion call of a leader with a vocabulary of less than 300 words. Let's be real. This wasn't about race at all, Lucian. I think you are dead wrong, Sir. I've walked through the Capitol building and it seems like 90% of the officers are black. The tapes I have seen look like a pitched battled between the Capitol Police and Santa Ana's troops overrunning the walls. Calls for help from the resigned Capitol Police Captain to the Pentagon (if reports are to be believed) were refused because of "Optics" which is probably closer to the truth. The embarrassment of troops at the mall isn't new. In 1932, right in D.C. Dougie MacArthur, George Patton and Dwight Eisenhower leading American Troops attacked over 10,000 disgruntled WWI veterans who were protesting. For weeks. DC violence isn't new. Todays morons breached the sacred towers, I know the difference. My point is that the violence isn't about race, it's about stupidity, the greed of too much power, the fear of television "optics." And the burning race issue? The black Bachelorette might pick the wrong white guy.
Many valid points. One might also add that humans are, by evolution, a communal creature striving for that community in a world of ever increasing digital and technological isolation. This sense of community has always been a safety net. Take it away, and people are going to grasp at other groups/beliefs/ideas that they may not necessarily believe in just to resume that sense of community and protection.
My father was born and raised in WWII-era Germany, he had a front-row seat for the entirety of Hitler's career. Diehard conservative, voted Republican ever since his arrival in the U.S. I call him "a relic of that era," because he never truly changed, he just adjusted so he could fit in without standing out as the non-PC person he fundamentally is. He certainly fits the label "evolutionary U-turn." My mom's siblings, similar German heritage, is much wiser and more astute.