Thursday, April 16, 2020

Right Wing Extremism, Going Around, Coming Around

THOSE OF A CERTAIN AGE will recall that the very moment bill Clinton took office in 1993, white Christian conservative males, mostly between teh ages of infancy and senility, grown men, began wearing military camo fatigues, bearing automatic and semi-automatic rifles and assorted handguns, began packing bibles and crosses and MREs into backpacks, and gathering together in wilderness areas, and playing army, or whatever it was, under the name "the militia movement". Most of them eventually had their fun, got bored, went back intotown and got real jobs, and grew up somewhat. clinton left office, amid a dung heap of right wing hatred. The religious right quietened down a mite during George bush the second's grammatically incoherent two terms, then came obama, and back out of hibernation came the camo boys, this time wearing white, like brides, sheets and hoods, like hoods. The rebirth of true all American white supremacy, a resurgence of the KKK. Right on time, never a dull moment with the "Jesus,Guns and Money" crowd, teh capitalistic corporate socialist hating christian caucasian elite, as we affectionately call them. They would have made Obama's life a living hell, with their racist nonsense, disguised as conservatism, had he paid any attention to it, but gracefully he ignored it, Obama, always the gentleman, in stark contrast to our current president, who never heard an insult he didn't want to multiply and double down on. By the time Trump took office the hate mongering fanatical right wing was in full bloom, for finally they had their man, a man who has devoted his life to greed, shady dealings, and racist, misogynist vendettas. Trump is the soul mate of the christian right, a community fully capable of ignoring any egregious sin if the sinner implements the right kind of agenda; pro white, anti gay, anti minority; the conservative christian agenda, thinly disguised as patriotism and virtue, is well known. Our only comfort is that as the white demographic declines as a percentage of the American population, and the baby boomers are replaced by the millennials, the extreme right wing christian community fades into non existence, mercifully.

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