"most people living in the United States today—certainly more than half—are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term."
Good to see the right dropping all pretense.
americanmind.org/salvo/why-the-…
Good to see the right dropping all pretense.
americanmind.org/salvo/why-the-…
This is what I was getting at in a tweet a few weeks ago: you either see the US as a set of rules/procedures/principles meant to enable pluralism ... or you see it as a specific white/Christian/patriarchal culture. The right has chosen the latter, more & more openly.
Related: opposition to federal gun control laws is strongly correlated with Christian nationalism, which has been taking over the US right wing. Christian nationalism says the US is God's special country; to be a patriot, one must be Christian. asanet.org/sites/default/…
This an old, old phenomenon of course: small-c conservative people, fearful of change, fearful of difference, fearful of outsiders, fearful of ... everything, convincing themselves that God is on their side & their violence/persecution toward others is sanctified.
The problem in the US is that we have sorted all those people together into the same geographies & social circles, cut them off from outside influence, & bombarded them with RW media that encourages their fear, resentment, & anger.
And we have a political structure that systematically amplifies their voices & gives them disproportionate political representation. The US, especially at this moment, is just horrifyingly vulnerable to democratic crisis & dissolution.
One last note on this: it reveals why there is no "argument" happening over voting rights. Today's conservatives believe they should be in charge, regardless of who's in the majority. There's no persuading them to give that up. It's a game of power now, not persuasion.
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