If one asks most Americans on any street, what would they consider as the most important or threatening problems and issues the nation is facing nowadays, one will get answers like inflation, the economy, education, the cost of healthcare and medicine, and recently the war in Ukraine and the possibility of it spreading.
But you have one group fairly representative of a good third of American voters, mostly on the Republican side, the white supremacy, and some distinct religious factions, they are all expressing with the same fervor the same words, the same context and back ground, the same indoctrination, it is becoming an end by itself, "Don't say gay" and total anti trans laws, "Cancel culture", "wokism" and invented rumors. criminalization of abortion in all its forms, banning books of any subjects mentioning history of blacks, Jews, Muslems, immigrants et al.
For many Republicans and groups following and serving their purposes, homophobia, islamophobia, transphobia, racism, hate, anti Semitism and supremacy are becoming the new normal. This relatively new post modern manufactured culture serves well their ultra right indoctrination as well as their electoral purposes. By diverting attention from the real problems, the stagnation of the absolute free, wild and unchecked capitalism, the economic plunder by big corporate America, by the war machines, the drug manufacturers and cartels, all leading to total wealth disequilibrium, and totally unfair taxation and disparate distribution between the poorer majority and the very limited numbers of the powered non elected ultra rich, practically eliminating the remaining vanishing middle classes.
Republican politicians and representatives want desperately everyday Americans divided and living in fear of one another, they want every group loathing and hating the others, so the majority don't unite behind real dangerous issues, like fair decent livable wages, safer and better working conditions, fairer wealth distribution, better public social programing, more efficient fighting to eliminate or reduce climate change effects, in few words a better and fairer economy management.
Most Americans as well as most people around the world today are asking their leaders and law makers to address the future of a livable planet, rather than continuing the past policies and tactics and old faith in some sort of divine intervention, they are willing to sacrifice some of the most endeared slogans and ideas for a complete new look and belief in a brighter and safer future, based on more compassion, morality, equality, and dignity. American youths are forgetting how to hate words and concepts like socialist and progressive, they want to ignore religions, imperialism, colonialism, apartheid, superiority, fascism, Zionism, ethnic cleansing, all accompanied by unchecked brutality.
But unfortunately, we're facing a new manipulator, a racist, fascist, nationalist, populist faction, that exist not only in America but is spreading on all corners of the world, old and new world. Destroying systematically all hope for the young to look for the bright and safe future. It is the same narrative used by these oligarchies and leaders for centuries, and more so nowadays, to divide and conquer and rule eternally by colonizing and subduing others, staging coups and terrorizing their helpless neighbors.
Demagogues like Trump, Florida's DeSantis, Fox news' Tucker Carlson, Russia's Putin, the Zionist entire leadership in Palestine, and many other mini dictators from around the world are all selling the same narratives of a dominant culture that is always endangered and threatened by minorities and different phobic feelings emanating from immigrants, refugees, transgender people, even from different colors of skin. Always endangering their limited versions of history. The worst part is sadly, that it's working, as many are falling for this type of sick propaganda.
In America, as it is elsewhere, sane people must fight back, by arguing and explaining directly and clearly the real economic problems, the real danger of huge inequalities between the very rich absolute minorities and the vast poorer majorities, the climate changes effects, the vulnerability and sustainability of life on our planet, that marginalized communities are not really the problem, but corporate greed and concentration, political corruption, imperialism and colonialism, plus of course climate changes, poverty and shifting populations are the real problems facing humanity.
The new Republican nowadays in America is defined as such; rich or at least nicely well off, white, male, straight, religious, adequately well armed, and definitely a firm believer in open and wild, unchecked forms of capitalism. These people will shape America and American supremacy for decades to come, and always partnered with other similar power hungry leaders locally and across the world.
My usual many thanks to all, stay safe and well.
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