@RadioFreeTom Conservativism in the ReaganThatcherBush years was all about fear of Others as voter motivation. Maybe you were too young to remember or notice the Atwater Doctrine & its gender equivalents, but all who were its targets certainly undertood Philadelphia MS, Willie Horton, etc. @RadioFreeTom Tories & Republicans have never ‘merely’ used racism & racists, sexism & sexists to appeal to your eternal conservative base of scared white ppl in order to push the ‘real’ goals of tax cuts, foreign wars & austerity-for-other-people’s-faces to make the rich richer.

@ukobserver That brings me to another point that's long troubled me: alone out of all the Allies - and Germany itself! - the US culturally invested a huge amt of energy for decades in denying that & saying that 1920s-40s Germans as a whole were innocent pawns of Hitler & his appointees. @ukobserver There was pushback, songs like 'My Name is Lisa Kalvelage' for one, but until the book 'Hitler's Willing Executioners' opened the door, the received popular view was that 'Nazis' were a breed apart, almost aliens, who had mysteriously conquered 'Good Germans' & brainwashed them.

Any American who says 'this is not US(A)' does not know their own history.
One place: Sand Creek, CO.
One name: John Chivington.
Three words: 'Nits make lice.'
Col Chivington was not hanged for war crimes, nor his men. Congress did issue a finger-shaking condemnation, though. #WhereAreTheGirls? Why do you care? They're only cunts, born w that extra hole that means both 'less than fully human' & 'threat,' bc cunts make nits. Thus Col Chivington's men took dead women's labia as trophies, bc sexism & racism are 2 inextricably twined strands of 1 hate.