There is a background, since WWII, of fascist influences on politics in this country. The book "The Beast Reawakens" lists specific people, organizations, and their connections, and what they are trying to do, and their influence on domestic politics.
What makes the reaction you saw interesting is that you start finding connections. Just one example is Trent Lott, who praised the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist organization led by Kirk Lyons. These sentiments work their way through less obvious publications and people, until it looks fairly innocuous, until you see what the real goals are, and start asking questions about assumptions, and start looking at actual results.
That's why it's important to ask questions, and question assumptions that get absorbed into the language of the debate.
Even more important that white supremacists are the assumptions in our language of debate on what the intentions of the military are. Basically, it is to take over the planet, as the only way to create security for our people. Along with that goes the assumptions that "we" owe security to the rest of the world, and the only way that can be done, oddly enough, is through the US military.
- If "we" don't, there will be a slaughter, and that it will be "our" fault.
- Anyone who thinks differently is an "enemy" of this administration.
Along with that goes the idea that this administration has all the rights and privileges of secrecy and deception, and owes the people it serves nothing, due to .... "national security".
Once you accept all of that, you are pretty well stuck being along for the ride towards a fully militarized planet with the US military in control, and the US civilian population held hostage in the battle.
And you are an "enemy" if you question that, goes the logic... |
