Fuzzy Necromancer wrote:Do you have a citation? I mean, we don't flip our lids over red coffee cups.
Trump got elected while at the same time most who went for him are as sick of the Republican establishment as the Democrat one and would have taking any decent offering had it not just been him and the usual suspects that played to lose graciously, people being openly contrarian over racial issues (which is what most of the Alt-Right silliness is as far as I've seen from those I know on board with it when they spent early years of the politically aware life during the Bush years and most of the Obama ones sneering at the right), many Leftists closer to the center feeling abandoned if not outright pushed out of the Democratic Party that have a big Alt-Right/Right following now like Dave Ruben.
Admiral X wrote:I hate to break it to you or anyone else who suffers from this viewpoint, but the right and conservatives are not synonymous with racism. That assertion is nothing more than a product of propaganda from the kind of people who would claim that every example of socialism history has seen wasn't "really" socialism.
It's amusing for me not simply from knowing where I stand but from knowing the conservative Americans I do. About the closest things they have that's synonymous with them when it comes to their country is an expectation of legal hard work alongside a good sense of being humble about yourself (outside of being American. Talk as big a talk about being American that you wish), and if you do that, then doesn't matter what anyone thinks of you or whatever disagreements they may have personally with you, you are American and have shown it.
All the "brown people" talk too, something I've pretty much only seen come from the Left when skewering the Right is funny as hell seeing their family photos and all the miscegenation they're supposed to despise in it or idle talk of who they're fond of in the "if I wasn't happily married" kind of conversation.
If anything the Left blew their wad not realizing how tolerant the Right has been in the past few decades and that kind of continued talk with such fervor has led meany to believe that they're damned if they do damned if they don't that led to voting for such a nasty guy as Trump, the embracing the "deplorable" tag and much of the contrarianism that is at its heart taboo breaking, especially online.
The danger I fear isn't so much a blow back, but that many on the Far-Left want that blow back because they'd simply run out of real opponants to fight and needed to goad people into fighting again that seems to have revived Fascism after all these years (and sorry for anyone that thinks otherwise, but your good old American conservative despises Fascism as much as Communism, to do otherwise is not uphold America's greatest moment when everyone looked on them in a way like they look on themselves that was WWII).
If it were otherwise there wouldn't be the celebrating over Jerusalem being recognized as Israels capital going on which runs contrary to what the typical Alt-Right reaction is the typical "It's a good middle finger to the Muslims, but it's still good little goyim like Trump helping out their Jewish masters" BS.