Above Charles Lindbergh of the 1930's pro-Nazi "America First" movement. #45 said on being asked that he didn't know there was another "A.F." before his...figures.
Future historians will see these hysterias,..."America First" then, and now, as linked to the tradition of cyclic populist nationalisms.
These coming during economic traumas. Early industrialization, and now the digital information era. Also ethnic cultural changes.
The waves of Asian, and Eastern European immigration in the late 19th early 20th centuries. Now with Hispanic population growth. Also the rise of women rights to ethnic minorities, and sexual orientations. These are fearful changes to many millions of white Christian men.
...it's always these guys.
Every nation has bouts of this kind of terror rage, and social madness. They in time simmer down one way or another. The Civil War settled one, and WW1, and WW2 settled others. What will cure us this time may be the effects of global climate change.
Some will be too busy drowning to burn crosses.
"It's always been assumed that the evolutionary slope reaches forever upwards, but in fact the peak has already been reached, the pathway now leads downwards to the common biological grave. It's a despairing and at present unacceptable vision of the future, but it's the only one." -J. G. Ballard, "The Voices of Time", 1960
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ReplyDeleteHowever on the way to Hell I'd like a nice day or two.
...with Dumplings.