Important read by @JRubinBlogger —“The most authoritarian-inclined Americans tend to be over age 45, live in rural areas and don’t have a college degree. This is the profile of the GOP base, not coincidentally.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
A Morning Consult poll finds that “26% of the U.S. population qualified as highly right-wing authoritarian, Morning Consult research found, twice the share of the No. 2 countries, Canada and Australia.”
And the core of the authoritarian movement on the American right, (which frankly is tipping into fascist territory per folks as ideologically disparate as @BillKristol & @mehdirhasan) is among conservative white evangelicals, as @PRRIpoll researcher @robertpjones explains:
Defund the police? Republicans at this stage refuse to DEFEND the police who fought the insurrectionists in hand-to-hand combat, and they want to defund the FBI and the military over a made-up, twisted version of an 80s legal theory, because they hate the idea of anti-racism.
And their media is hiding these facts from their captive audience…
“Defund the military” is literally the Trumpist right’s new thing. And they’re using this fake but ugly war against anti-racism as their cudgel. Take that in for a moment. Fight anti-racism by defunding our troops! politico.com/news/2021/06/2…
Seems like one reason Republicans are so eager to build a wall around the American history memory hole is to quash the next generation’s ability to connect their drive to crush nonwhite voting and the confederacy and its progeny’s war against black multiracial democracy.
And of course, they’d love to drive a wedge through the heart of the Justice for George Floyd coalition, while amping up Trump voters ahead of 2022. As usual, it’s all about power.
And miss me please with the “but it was the Democrats who done it!” No shite, Sherlock. Black people know that. And we deeply feel the irony that the party most Blacks joined after the civil war totally rebranded itself, the same way they’re now rebranding critical race theory.
This wasn't centuries ago. It was 16 years before Ronald Reagan was elected president (after launching his campaign, quite decisively, in Philadelphia, Mississippi). teenvogue.com/story/mississi… via @TeenVogue
And what were these murders -- which were three of many, many more lynchings in Mississippi, mainly of Black activists that summer -- about? Stopping Black Americans from voting and thus being full citizens... This has been a theme of American history from day one.
The sheer savagery of it puts the lie to the notion that America has never been, a racist country. Misuse, abuse and hatred of Black people, and anyone else who would stand with Black and other nonwhite people in favor of equality and justice has run deep in the soil since 1619.
I think the summary of all of these apocalyptic series is that humans are terrible, living or dead. Only a few will maintain their humanity when the shite goes down and civilization falls. It’s sad how realistic that feels…
That said the plot exposition is really solid. I love the way they go back and explain what you already saw happen in layers.
It feels like someone should let folks know: Marxism is a theory that divisions in a capitalist society will inevitably lead to the collapse of the class structure. Communism is the achievement of Marxism via revolution. And critical race theory has nothing to do with either one.
I post this in the face of the latest idiot branding exercise on the right, performed to exquisite stupidity by usual suspects @tedcruz (R-Cancun) and @marcorubio (R-Twitter Bible Verse) in which they smugly pretend to know what CRT is by defining it as Marxism in another name.
They’re doing that, because
A) whoever provided them with the idiot branding knows that the word MARXISM works on the amygdalas of everyday conservatives
B) they know everyday conservatives have know idea what Marxism is, or how irrelevant it is. They just know it’s bad.