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It’d help if we did a lot less But It’s Unfair! and a lot more Know Your Enemy. There’s a huge and incredibly stupid hard right media system in the US that’s mostly dedicated to turning non-issues into outrages, so this will happen again and again and again...
Rich US right wingers once had a legit fear that the left would smash their monopolies and break up their companies. Poor ones knew the government might use the National Guard against them to desegregate schools or have the FBI whack their white supremacist leaders. And now...
...Now, their worst fear is that someone they know might get filmed using the N-word, and turned overnight into a $$$ national celebrity. These are non-problems that for the most part, only wealthy, comfortable people have time to worry about.
There was also a time when the right had a ferociously argued economic sales pitch for everyone. The reason why the right is now, all over the world, reduced to overt racism and fear is that we’re all living in the economies they designed, and they *fucking suck* for most of us.
Maybe focus on *that* a bit more, eh.
