Fighting Terrorism

THERE IS A MOVEMENT, largely online, to legally label the KKK a terrorist organization, which it obviously is and always has been, a designation which would criminalize the hate group's existence. The question is: what took us so long? What are we waiting for/ The answer is simple. The refusal by conservative Christians, the conservative community as a whole to condemn the terrorist group, let alone prohibit it. Instead, politically and socially conservative Christiandom has historically chosen to actively support the Klan, to tacitly support, often to participate in it and support it overtly, or at best, to ignore it. Surveys indicate that there are no left wing liberal members of the Ku Klux Klan; membership is restricted to white Protestants, and they are all politically conservative, emerging directly from the conservative evangelical movement, the main support base for president Trump, himself a racist. Nobody knows how many people the Klan has murdered since its inception by  Nathan Bedford Forrest on Kenesaw Mountain , Georgia in 1866. Everybody knows the number is in the thousands, perhaps tens of thousands. Were it not white, conservative, Protestant Christian, and racist anti-black, in a white, Protestant, racist Christian country, it never would have flourished, it would have lost popularity and gone extinct, long ago. The undeniable truth is that the KKK emerges directly from within the mainstream American culture, and, arguably, it is mainstream American culture which should be vastly reformed, if allowed to continue to exist at all.