Monday, August 21, 2017

Rise of white national popularism

It doesn't take a political scientist to establish a direct correlation with the rise of white nationalism and the political rise of Donald Trump.


It is accepted fact: the two have a linear and co-dependent relationship.

In short, they both feed off each other -- in the worst way -- by pandering or stoking fear, hate, bigotry, racism, anti-Semitism and anti-immigration.

White nationalists or alt-right loyalists -- Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, Stephen Miller to name a few -- and Trump have propelled each other (to the detriment of our country) to positions of greater influence in shaping our country's agenda and dialogue.

In an effort to better understand this movement, let's strip away their 21st century brand repackaging. Outside of Fox nation, no one is falling for their oakie-doke. Today's white nationalist was yesteryear's white supremacist -- KKK in hooded white sheets.

By contrast:

In a country guided by logic and sanity: you would have an alliance among poor, working class and middle class people from diverse backgrounds -- black, white, Latino, Asian, Native-American -- coming together to petition government and politicians to enact policies more friendly to their economic interests.

But sadly, in our divided and conquered landscape, the rank-in-file white supremacists remain un-woke -- not socially or politically aware of their best interests.

In this state, they are easily lead astray into the white wonderland of racial superiority. This artificial social construct was created to keep them on the ranch. Never to create alliances that would challenge the power domain of the elite.

Thus they march -- armed and loaded -- to protect confederate statues. Statues that pay homage to racial supremacy.





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