I think it’s always been there. I believe it’s only now that it has become “acceptable” to spew that poison. Trump in the U.S. is a perfect example: Mocking a disabled reporter; calling Mexicans drug dealers, criminals, and rapists; African Americans, "He was among the loudest voices behind a baseless attack on the legitimacy of the nation’s first Black president: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/every-moment-donald-trumps-long-complicated-history-race. Need I continue? Exactly when did misinformation become acceptable—and mainstream? Maybe when education became grossly underfunded? Maybe when “critical thinking” became excluded from our education? Hence the banning of books, that used to be required reading?
He didn’t do anything besides tap into all the bigoted lies that white Americans have been told over the course of their lives - a combination of the racism that is imbued in most of them from birth and the mangled Zionistic, Judeo-Christian prosperity crap that brings a deluded sense of duty, purpose and certainty to tens of millions of Americans. It’s very easy to blame Trump but he only built on existing mythological structures.
I agree that Trump has awakened the bigots. I am saddened and disturbed by the percentage of the population that was just waiting for the catalyst. All these people whose ancestors emigrated from Europe , all these people whose ancestors brought people from Africa in chains as slaves, all these people whose ancestors slaughtered and cheated the indigenous people from their lands. THESE are the self righteous people who are now dictating to the population?? If Jesus could see what was happening in his name, he would never stop throwing up. Happy Easter
Birtherism gave Trunk national media attention over a prolonged period, leading to…what the US has now as a federal government
90,000,000 people in the U.S. didn’t vote in the last election. You can see how that’s working out for them. If you don’t want to become an American, don’t act like one. Get out and VOTE!!! 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 Our sovereignty is at stake.
What else would they be trying to preserve? Notice they never tried to preserve strong unions, or high taxes for the rich.
tl;dr: US conservatives have been generally racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic, and those traits have become increasingly stronger in the past decade or so.
I saw an interview with Michael Moore around the time that Trump was becoming disturbingly popular. He said (not verbatim) “Trump is not the problem, he’s the symptom of what’s happening in the U.S.”. Wow. No truer words. I doubt he realized how the fever would overtake a country that was grown from immigrants, now demonizing immigrants.
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Calling this “conservatism” is already a fig leaf.
How prejudiced /s
How presumptuous /s
That’s because the Overton window has shifted.
In most of the Western world, mainstream Democrats (neoliberals etc) align with the far right political groups.
Generalized prejudice is a minor subset of that group, except where it spans the political landscape.
And then there’s the Nordic countries. Not perfect, but free health, free education and consistently ranked the happiest in the world. Apparently they’re doing something right. You know, looking after their citizens.
I always hear this praise from people who don’t live in that part of the world and hear something else from those who do/have.
What they have done with tiny populations is commendable but has Norway done a better job of managing its resources than the UAE or Qatar or other nations with large petrochemical reserves and tiny populations?
Depends on your definition of “population.”
In UAE and Qatar, the male citizens are generally happy.
Amazing what subjugation of women can do for a sense of virility.
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