The same people who considered Neo-Nazi's to be nice people?
Yep....apparently the OP doesn't see that both groups were fighting NAZIS.
Fighting Nazi's doesn't make one left wing, or alt left, and therein lies the major flaw in your shitty little analogy. I can't even believe this has to be explained to you. Most of the people who volunteered to storm Normandy were doing it for nationalistic reasons, first of all, and not ideological reasons. They weren't like, "That Hitler guy really believes some evil things! He needs to be stopped!" It was more like, "These fuckers attacked us! Mount up!" The truly ******* sad part of this meme is, given the cultural norms of the time and the probable political views of your average American trooper, the modern left would probably classify most of those allies hopping off the landing craft as alt right by today's standards.
I don't believe "most" of the people who landed on D-Day had anything more on their mind than getting through the landing alive, and one day going home.
BTW, Alt Right is a euphemism for the neo nazi and racist, those who reject and want to repeal
Brown v.
Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) and support
Plessy v. Ferguson.
Once the bullets were flying and their teammates were being shot to pieces all around them, I'm sure getting home alive instantly became the prevailing thought. That said, after Pearl Harbor, the US military was flooded with volunteers. Those people had reasons for volunteering, and those reasons rarely included abhorrence of the racism of Nazi ideology.
What percentage of random working class people that you know (and this is no rip on the working class, that's how I grew up. Just recognition that working class folks don't got a lot of time for shit that's not relevant to their day-to-day situation) are well versed in the politics and popular ideologies of any nation outside of the Anglosphere?
Now divide that number by no-such-thing-as-CNN-or-the-internet and you'll get a rough idea of how many army recruits even knew enough about Nazi politics to give a shit one way or the other about their ideas. What people did know is that these douche bags and their douche bag allies attacked our allies and then attacked us, and they knew that any man who valued being regarded as a man was expected to hop on a boat and go set those douche bags straight.
As for that second bit, it's very cute that you're trying to rebut me with a technical definition of alt right. I didn't say that those troops hopping off the landing craft were -technically- alt right, I said that the modern left would identify them as alt right. There is a difference. Modern lefties call Milo Yiannopoulos alt right, they call Rush Limbaugh alt right, they call ******* DAVE RUBIN alt right!
The technical definition says alt right means neo Nazi, white supremacist segregationist, but in practice the label is applied to anyone who dares to be opposed to open borders, communism, or critical race theory. None of these ideas were particularly popular in pre 60's America.
I broke up you post into paragraphs to make my response clear and not awkward:
P1: I agree. The attack on Pearl killed thousands, and that "day of Infamy" pissed off the new generation of Americans to want to punch back - that included my dad, my uncle and a number of cousins one of whom survived when Tennessee was hit on 12/7/41.
P2: Please clarify.
P3: Huh? I don't know what percent of Army recruits knew, I can go with what those in my boot camp at NTCSD in 1967
didn't know about Vietnam; the French Occupation and Diem phen phou; the promised elections that never happened, and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
I know that a year of so after boot camp I ran into a guy I played ball with in high school, who was a couple of year older than me, who claimed he was on Turner Jo when they went on alert to assist Maddox under attack. He claimed nothing happened when they arrived on scene.
P4: I don't care what you think the modern left believes, the Alt-right (alternative right wing) is racist, authoritarian, anti democratic and thus rejects traditional values upon which our nation was founded.
Your cute attempt to define Alt-right ignores the fact that those who support equal rights, equal opportunity and a fair share of the wealth in our nation are follower of Marx, or Lenin or Stalin, or Mao, etc. is total bullshit
Open borders? No one wants open borders, and the hope to secure our borders has more to do (IMO) to keep out weapons of mass destruction, not persons seeking work to feed their families. Immigration is an easy solution if emotion - hate and fear - is taken out of the debate.
What is Critical Race Theory?