"Pundits struggle to decide whether Trump’s rise represents something new in the United States or whether it is a continuation of the growing anti-democratic politics of the Republican Party." I am in Europe right now (Germany) and everywhere I am seeing the same signs of breakdown I am witnessing in the US: failing infrastructure, massi…
"Pundits struggle to decide whether Trump’s rise represents something new in the United States or whether it is a continuation of the growing anti-democratic politics of the Republican Party." I am in Europe right now (Germany) and everywhere I am seeing the same signs of breakdown I am witnessing in the US: failing infrastructure, massive class divides, mighty anti-immigrant waves, a growing neo-fascist/new-Nazi movement. The growing anti-democratic politics are spreading all over Europe as well as America. This is a very scary moment.
What is even scarier is that when fascism wins, Nature loses. In some way or another, those right-wing types are almost always climate change deniers, and notoriously anti-environment, too.
If you read Prof. Kathleen Belew's book, Bring the War Home: White Supremacy and Paramilitary America, https://www.kathleenbelew.com/ you can see that she discusses the coming together of White Supremacist groups internationally with a shared agenda in the late 1980s early 1990s. That agenda is to be less overt in their racism so that they can seem more mainstream. The idea is to protest "immigration" as a coded way of protesting non Whites in their countries. Then, to join and then take over mainstream politics and destroy the liberal nation state. The Republican party in the USA, which I call the New American Nazi party, has taken over this agenda. I call the AfD the New German Nazi Party. These are the people who truly want a Global White Nation State. For those in the USA the influx of people of Latin America pose a threat to this goal. In Europe the influx of people of the African and Asian continents pose a threat to this goal. They are keeping their "true" agenda from the mainstream so they can accomplish their goals by stealth. This has been effective. The press and many people do not see the Forest for the Trees. However, at the same time, Africans and Asians can go to university for free in Germany. They cannot do this in the USA.
"These are the people who truly want a Global White Nation State."
That would be one nasty state. In my own life here in multi-cultural USA, by far the nicest, most kind people I have intersected with have, ummm, decidedly NOT been white. They have been either Puerto Rican, Black or of Mexican descent.
So, just imagine how nasty a "White Nation State" would be without the buffer of people from cultures that actually value other people?
Thank you for this, Linda. I just ordered it. Should fit in nicely with "The Anger Games . . ." in helping to explain the marriage between white supremacists and the oligarchs who use them like puppets.
Did you see the article in Politico on how Agnieska Holland is being viciously attacked by the Polish government over her new film which depicts the desperate situation for Asian refugees who are recruited by Belarus, and then dropped off at the border to Poland, where the Polish troops are trying to prevent them from coming in. The right leaning Polish government is very angry that this film occurs right before an election they are trying to control the media to win. https://www.politico.eu/article/film-green-border-agnieszka-green-poland-government-hate-campaign-election-pis-kaczynski-duda/
These people in the USA follow The Turner Diaries, that is their bible, and they are planning an all out race war. It is concerning how many weapons they are stealing from our military in the USA. Also of concern is the number of weapons being sent to Ukraine and a lot of the volunteers from other countries are members of these White Supremacist groups, going to get training in warfare, and at the same time, I am wondering whether they are bringing weapons back to their home countries. In Germany I watched some programs about how there are these old Nazis keeping their ideology alive through illicit camps where they force their grandchildren to subscribe to a race war ideology and are training them for this. I don't know if there are English language articles on this. Here however, is an interesting article on Germany and their attempts to address their institutional racism. One thing is that they now do have a Commission for Anti-Racism, sort of the way that we will be creating a White House Office of Gun Violence.
On the Antidiscrimination website of the German Federal Government one can file a complaint. So, there is starting to be better documentation of discrimination. At the same time, I ran into a young woman the other day who studies in Berlin and her studies are Gender and Intersectionality. We started talking and she is being taught that race is a social construct, which is the position Germans have Black and White who are in the fields of Identity studies, whereas that has not been my experience in the USA. So, for that, I would say Europeans, who have different histories of racial politics from the USA, also has some different models and ideas. Colorism is discussed here a lot more. When I used to bring these ideas into my workplace where everyone wanted to be so WOKE, they could not hear them. Very USA-centric in my opinion. I think just as White Supremacists are joining around the world, those of us who are anti White Supremacy should be joining around the world too.
People wonder why 70 million MAGA Republicans still support Trump. I believe that "The Anger Games . . ." answers this question. There is something more important to these people that American democracy and simply put, it is hatred. Their hate is so all consuming that nothing else matters. This is the Civil War all over again, only this time there are no geographical boundaries. And, the goal is not to preserve slavery but rather white Protestant supremacy.
Unfortunately, the press is owned by these same interests whose "Liberal" editorials mask the intentions of the words they use in their sub-hedlines. Over time, those words define our realty and the actions people take, to benefit their corporate ownership. They never, in their "impartiality", mention the great acomplishments of the current administration. All you hear is "he's old and people see a problem". It's bullshit, but part of the program. They don't care about the forrest or the trees. It is all in the words.
All this is in any case plain stupid, it's farting into the wind... And even when we see phenomena like the sudden arrival of 11 000 migrants on the Italian island of Lampedusa... it is all as nothing by comparison with what's to come.
I'll confess to having thought a long time ago that the Italians should have cut their losses by selling -- even giving -- Lampedusa to nearby Tunisia. It's so far from the rest of Italy, uncomfortably close to North Africa.
We could say that about Majorca and the Canary Islands as well. However, that is not going to solve global warming and the devastation people in the Southern hemisphere are experiencing from the excesses of the USA, China and Europe.
Same here - also in Germany at the moment, and it is scary indeed. However, the news is still dominated by the ongoing war 'nearby' (Ukraine/Russia) and laced with reports of demonstrations of the 'last generation ('glue activists') who think that political squabbles should be replaced by actions stemming climate chaos.
It’s climate change and overpopulation. What we’re seeing has been predicted for years. The question is whether we will reduce population by war and disease
or whether we will reverse course, gently shrink (adopt or be childless, go with smaller living spaces, grow gardens, be content with fewer “things) and clean up the water and the air.
Zero Population Growth has been pushing that primary issue for many decades. Unfortunately, religions want to see more souls to go to heaven and don't care about how they live before they die. The pro lifers are the most anti life folks arond, in that regard.
A steady or declining population is bad for business. No help there.
Perhaps Mother Earth has other plans for us. We might just be the problem and apex species have become extinct before. Climate change might be the solution. The selfish bizarre behavior ramping up all around us is just like the rats in the psychology experiment boxes. We might be smart enough to see it coming but psychologically deficient enough to not focus on a solution.
Get yours while you can, as they say in TV commercials.
"Pundits struggle to decide whether Trump’s rise represents something new in the United States or whether it is a continuation of the growing anti-democratic politics of the Republican Party." I am in Europe right now (Germany) and everywhere I am seeing the same signs of breakdown I am witnessing in the US: failing infrastructure, massive class divides, mighty anti-immigrant waves, a growing neo-fascist/new-Nazi movement. The growing anti-democratic politics are spreading all over Europe as well as America. This is a very scary moment.
What is even scarier is that when fascism wins, Nature loses. In some way or another, those right-wing types are almost always climate change deniers, and notoriously anti-environment, too.
If you read Prof. Kathleen Belew's book, Bring the War Home: White Supremacy and Paramilitary America, https://www.kathleenbelew.com/ you can see that she discusses the coming together of White Supremacist groups internationally with a shared agenda in the late 1980s early 1990s. That agenda is to be less overt in their racism so that they can seem more mainstream. The idea is to protest "immigration" as a coded way of protesting non Whites in their countries. Then, to join and then take over mainstream politics and destroy the liberal nation state. The Republican party in the USA, which I call the New American Nazi party, has taken over this agenda. I call the AfD the New German Nazi Party. These are the people who truly want a Global White Nation State. For those in the USA the influx of people of Latin America pose a threat to this goal. In Europe the influx of people of the African and Asian continents pose a threat to this goal. They are keeping their "true" agenda from the mainstream so they can accomplish their goals by stealth. This has been effective. The press and many people do not see the Forest for the Trees. However, at the same time, Africans and Asians can go to university for free in Germany. They cannot do this in the USA.
"These are the people who truly want a Global White Nation State."
That would be one nasty state. In my own life here in multi-cultural USA, by far the nicest, most kind people I have intersected with have, ummm, decidedly NOT been white. They have been either Puerto Rican, Black or of Mexican descent.
So, just imagine how nasty a "White Nation State" would be without the buffer of people from cultures that actually value other people?
Thank you for this, Linda. I just ordered it. Should fit in nicely with "The Anger Games . . ." in helping to explain the marriage between white supremacists and the oligarchs who use them like puppets.
Did you see the article in Politico on how Agnieska Holland is being viciously attacked by the Polish government over her new film which depicts the desperate situation for Asian refugees who are recruited by Belarus, and then dropped off at the border to Poland, where the Polish troops are trying to prevent them from coming in. The right leaning Polish government is very angry that this film occurs right before an election they are trying to control the media to win. https://www.politico.eu/article/film-green-border-agnieszka-green-poland-government-hate-campaign-election-pis-kaczynski-duda/
At the same time in CEPs report today, they summarize two different articles talking about the fight club aspect of White Supremacist groups and how this is a tool for recruiting people to their militias. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/active-club-nazi-militia-groups-b2418427.html?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7809534_
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/network-of-far-right-militias-covertly-proliferating-in-us:?utm_source=iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7809534_
At the same time I have been following the same activity in Europe with there being lots of Fight Clubs particularly in former Eastern European and Scandinavian countries. https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgw4bz/neo-nazi-active-clubs-rising-globally
These people in the USA follow The Turner Diaries, that is their bible, and they are planning an all out race war. It is concerning how many weapons they are stealing from our military in the USA. Also of concern is the number of weapons being sent to Ukraine and a lot of the volunteers from other countries are members of these White Supremacist groups, going to get training in warfare, and at the same time, I am wondering whether they are bringing weapons back to their home countries. In Germany I watched some programs about how there are these old Nazis keeping their ideology alive through illicit camps where they force their grandchildren to subscribe to a race war ideology and are training them for this. I don't know if there are English language articles on this. Here however, is an interesting article on Germany and their attempts to address their institutional racism. One thing is that they now do have a Commission for Anti-Racism, sort of the way that we will be creating a White House Office of Gun Violence.
https://www.dw.com/en/racism-poses-a-threat-to-germanys-democracy/a-64354347
On the Antidiscrimination website of the German Federal Government one can file a complaint. So, there is starting to be better documentation of discrimination. At the same time, I ran into a young woman the other day who studies in Berlin and her studies are Gender and Intersectionality. We started talking and she is being taught that race is a social construct, which is the position Germans have Black and White who are in the fields of Identity studies, whereas that has not been my experience in the USA. So, for that, I would say Europeans, who have different histories of racial politics from the USA, also has some different models and ideas. Colorism is discussed here a lot more. When I used to bring these ideas into my workplace where everyone wanted to be so WOKE, they could not hear them. Very USA-centric in my opinion. I think just as White Supremacists are joining around the world, those of us who are anti White Supremacy should be joining around the world too.
Richard, I can't find the book (or essay); will you please tell us who wrote it, and where we can find it?
Google "The Anger Games: Who Voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 Election, and Why?"
Thanks.. I've downloaded it, and will read both things you've recommended.
People wonder why 70 million MAGA Republicans still support Trump. I believe that "The Anger Games . . ." answers this question. There is something more important to these people that American democracy and simply put, it is hatred. Their hate is so all consuming that nothing else matters. This is the Civil War all over again, only this time there are no geographical boundaries. And, the goal is not to preserve slavery but rather white Protestant supremacy.
Unfortunately, the press is owned by these same interests whose "Liberal" editorials mask the intentions of the words they use in their sub-hedlines. Over time, those words define our realty and the actions people take, to benefit their corporate ownership. They never, in their "impartiality", mention the great acomplishments of the current administration. All you hear is "he's old and people see a problem". It's bullshit, but part of the program. They don't care about the forrest or the trees. It is all in the words.
All this is in any case plain stupid, it's farting into the wind... And even when we see phenomena like the sudden arrival of 11 000 migrants on the Italian island of Lampedusa... it is all as nothing by comparison with what's to come.
I'll confess to having thought a long time ago that the Italians should have cut their losses by selling -- even giving -- Lampedusa to nearby Tunisia. It's so far from the rest of Italy, uncomfortably close to North Africa.
We could say that about Majorca and the Canary Islands as well. However, that is not going to solve global warming and the devastation people in the Southern hemisphere are experiencing from the excesses of the USA, China and Europe.
Mine was a marginal point, your second sentence states the real issue.
Same here - also in Germany at the moment, and it is scary indeed. However, the news is still dominated by the ongoing war 'nearby' (Ukraine/Russia) and laced with reports of demonstrations of the 'last generation ('glue activists') who think that political squabbles should be replaced by actions stemming climate chaos.
The immigration problem in Europe is insoluble. They are fleeing Africa boatload after boatload.
It’s climate change and overpopulation. What we’re seeing has been predicted for years. The question is whether we will reduce population by war and disease
or whether we will reverse course, gently shrink (adopt or be childless, go with smaller living spaces, grow gardens, be content with fewer “things) and clean up the water and the air.
Zero Population Growth has been pushing that primary issue for many decades. Unfortunately, religions want to see more souls to go to heaven and don't care about how they live before they die. The pro lifers are the most anti life folks arond, in that regard.
A steady or declining population is bad for business. No help there.
Perhaps Mother Earth has other plans for us. We might just be the problem and apex species have become extinct before. Climate change might be the solution. The selfish bizarre behavior ramping up all around us is just like the rats in the psychology experiment boxes. We might be smart enough to see it coming but psychologically deficient enough to not focus on a solution.
Get yours while you can, as they say in TV commercials.
IMO we're in the age of extinction.. human extinction
You’re just possibly right.
here in Canada too ,sadly
Completely agree.
It's a time for us to be Winter Soldiers.