Why is it that I hear about so many crimes being done by far right-leaning, radically religious white men in America?
Why do they hate the rest of us so much? What did we do to make them so angry? Why are they hurting and killing innocent people and trying to change our government and laws? This violence is far out of hand and needs to stop. The answer is very complex.
I truly suspect the rise of the whackball right is the primary gauge on the dumbing down of America. It might simply be the price we pay for the era of leaded gasoline. The stuff is still burned in piston engined planes.
But White men in this country already seem to have all the power and influence and I can’t see what more they could possibly want than to destroy all of us that are different just because we are different. How can our small weaker populace be of any threat to them? They already control nearly everything.
Because that’s what’s being reported. There are a lot of other crimes that go unreported, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It just means it doesn’t make the news.
It started with a few white evangelical preachers in the 1970s who made a conscious decision to align themselves with the Republican party. By the 90s, the Republicans were fully infiltrated by the religious Right. In between, Reagan started a movement to roll back the 20th century progressive reforms commonly called the welfare state. Republicans worked very hard ever since to undo the social progress of the 20th century. The result was a vastly redistributed wealth in the US. Wealth was taken from the middle and lower classes and eaten up by a very small amount of people at the top. This left the middle and lower classes in despair. White people began to feel that what had been promised to them – the American Dream – was impossible to attain. They became despondent over their powerlessness. It is a psychological fact that when people feel powerless, they will often become violent. When you mix that violence with easy access to guns, the result is what we all live in now. These men feel powerless, and they want to reject that feeling by doing something powerful. Violence helps them feel like they have power.
I truly suspect the rise of the whackball right is the primary gauge on the dumbing down of America. It might simply be the price we pay for the era of leaded gasoline. The stuff is still burned in piston engined planes.
But White men in this country already seem to have all the power and influence and I can’t see what more they could possibly want than to destroy all of us that are different just because we are different. How can our small weaker populace be of any threat to them? They already control nearly everything.
Because that’s what’s being reported. There are a lot of other crimes that go unreported, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It just means it doesn’t make the news.
It started with a few white evangelical preachers in the 1970s who made a conscious decision to align themselves with the Republican party. By the 90s, the Republicans were fully infiltrated by the religious Right. In between, Reagan started a movement to roll back the 20th century progressive reforms commonly called the welfare state. Republicans worked very hard ever since to undo the social progress of the 20th century. The result was a vastly redistributed wealth in the US. Wealth was taken from the middle and lower classes and eaten up by a very small amount of people at the top. This left the middle and lower classes in despair. White people began to feel that what had been promised to them – the American Dream – was impossible to attain. They became despondent over their powerlessness. It is a psychological fact that when people feel powerless, they will often become violent. When you mix that violence with easy access to guns, the result is what we all live in now. These men feel powerless, and they want to reject that feeling by doing something powerful. Violence helps them feel like they have power.
