White supremacists have only become a recent "problem" because people were getting bored of covid and gotten over being scared by climate change. It's time for a new boogey man to drive people to do what they are told, and watch the news.
This will go on a year or two more and then be replaced by something else to scare and anger people into watching the news and listen to politicians.
It's the way it always work. When politicians want to be heard they scare us with something and the new takes advantage of it and driving viewership by pushing it hard. Eventually people get bored and stop being scared, then suddenly the terrible problem goes away magically and is replaced with something new, then the cycle repeats.
A society of humans as a whole is easily manipulated and controlled.
No sale!
White Supremacy and RW extremism has been a problem for decades.
As it just so happens, in the aftermath of Timothy McVeigh's arrest for the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P, Murrah building in Oklahoma City which killed 168 people including 19 small children in a daycare center, his trial was moved to the city of Denver, CO where I lived at the time. From the 2nd floor bedroom of my Victorian home which was on a hill and just west of I-25, I could see the predawn motorcade that transported him from where he was being jailed overnight to a downtown federal courthouse where his trial took place, and where he was eventually convicted in 1997. In case anyone cares, the exit ramp was 212-C.
Why do I mention this, you might ask. It's because it made it real for me, although it would never be as real for me as it was for the people in Oklahoma City whose lives McVeigh destroyed on April 19, 1995. The man was clearly a monster. But before he was a monster, he was a man with values that were seriously warped by RW ideology.
RW extremism probably would have been more directly confronted if it wasn't for the wholly understandable and more immediate threat of Islamic extremism and terrorism that we shockingly experienced on 9-11-01.
Having said that, seven years later when the threat of Islamic extremism and terrorism was still the primary concern of our intelligence services and our military, and Osama bin Laden's whereabouts were still unknown, a presidential election was held during an economic meltdown, and Barack Obama was elected.
And while the general population didn't know it at the time, Obama's election and inauguration led to an explosion of RW groups and their recruiting of new members who just couldn't abide the idea of an African American being president and actually being the commander-in-chief who could issue orders to White men. It was only two years later when Trump started to exploit those fears in the form of Birtherism which would eventually pave the way to his ascension to the presidency just five years later.
Knowing historical context is important because it's a roadmap to understand how we got to where we are now. After all, knowing what we know now, should we be surprised when we look back on Trump's 2017 defense of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA where Neo-Nazis marched in the streets with Tiki torches while yelling "Jews will not replace us"? How about when Trump said that there were "very fine people on both sides"?
And just like the math theory of linear regression would seem to indicate, should we believe that an election was stolen from a man with consistently negative approval ratings who also did everything he could to undermine his opponent only to fail at every turn?
Or should we see it for what it clearly is?
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