They WANT you to be scared

[Soph0571]

That is the only point. Govern by violence and fear to maintain male white conservative privilege. They sure as hell do not want to give one inch of that power and privilege to underrepresented groups so they want people to be afraid to take a stand. This is why you see a militarised police force of brown shirts stomping down the streets and using excessive force against protesters protesting excessive force. They are really trying to cling to this last century mode of governance in a 21st Century which will have none of it. The thing that the powerful and privilege fear the most is if under privileged and underrepresented communities get any of the power they cling too with a fascist white supremacist fervour, that they will turn on them and treat them the way these communities have been treated for 100's of years. And that is why this is the only point. They are scared that one day the tide will turn and there will be a comeuppance for their immoral and unethical murderous policies and lives, so they will rule through fear for as long as they can get away with it. The more scared everyone else it the better. Of course at this point in the game people may be scared, but they are more angry than they are scared - and this is terrifying to the elites - they need people to be scared into compliance and hence the absolute over reaction from the powerful to protests.

[jmg257]

1. That sucks. When people say theyre scared to drive through

Certain sections of the city, we call it racism.

Fear sucks.

[Walleye]

2. I've never been afraid walking through the city.

I’m a white woman. More afraid in a crowd of white people than African-Americans or Latinos. Lived for a decade in Hell’s Kitchen and walked through midtown Manhattan every night. I do fear for my life when driving on the highway and dealing with crazy white males driving aggressively, with their head up their ass.

[abqtommy]

3. I've been scared and I've been afraid but not now. NOW I'M MAD AND ANGRY!

[Soph0571]

10. Amen! n/t

[2naSalit]

4. That is true...

They are going to fight to their death to try and hold their power. But they've already lost, now THEY are scared.

As far as white males and women of color goes in my experience, all I can say is that when I was a truck driver every black* man I met along the way told me that I was brave but should anyone mess with me, they'd be there in a heartbeat to defend me. Not once in fifteen years did one white man ever make such a statement nor were they willing to come to my defense other than to summon a waitress, at my request, who thought I was a prostitute and wouldn't serve me. During the truck strike, though, the white guys would cut my fan belts and water hoses to delay me. There was always one or three standing by to challenge me at nearly every turn.

*I never encountered any other ethnic types as drivers in that world back then.

[DENVERPOPS]

5. the first sentence says it all

"They are going to fight to their death to try and hold their power".

And more precisely to hold on to everything they have rammed through these past three years, as well as the decades prior to Trump.....

I feel they are going to get really ruthless in the next 3-6 months.......

I am truly amazed that most people don't realize Trump is merely a pawn for the RepubliCONs and Putin.
If Trump goes away, the entire RepubliCON structure remains intact and just as destructive.......
The entire Federal Gov't remains intact as is...........a wholly owned group controlled by the RepubliCONs....

[llashram]

6. since the scabs

of old wounds are being picked off infected wounds these days, metaphorically speaking of course. I wonder if during the Bush-Cheney run at creating a militaristic fascist state, during Katrina, did anyone hear rumours of gangs of Blackwater types sent by the government and private concerns to roam the streets, post-hurricane, shooting black people coming out of stores with food etc, while whites were not who were running out the same stores, same time? Or if anyone even researched these rumours.

[llashram]

7. nail on the head

every word true. The viciousness of the current police state has been underreported by all mainstream media(s) in fear of people getting angrier at the hypocrisy and lies and the world finally realizing what the infected underbelly of America really looks and smells like.

[Collimator]

8. I remember reading a little anecdote. . .

Maybe it was here at DU, in which a middle-aged white man told of an encounter with a similarly-age white woman in a store's check-out line shortly after the 2016 election.

The gist of it was that she assumed that he was of the same mind as her and said how happy about she was Trump's election because she was "tired of being treated like an immigrant" in her own country.

That sentiment made me shake my head, because by its own admission it states that immigrants are treated very poorly--which is the actual moral and social issue that needs to be addressed, and not the supposed "take back" of the status that the woman used to enjoy.

Needless to say, that woman probably belongs to some faction of a world religion that tells its followers to treat other people as they would wish to be treated themselves.

This particular response to the original post made seem to be making an oblique point. To be more direct, the people at the top of the current power structure only know how to rule--not lead--with an either/or perspective. Either you are powerful or you are powerless. They can't image sharing power; and so they fear the formerly powerless gaining any sort of authority because they, themselves will then become completely dispossessed.

In short, they don't trust anyone else with power because of they way that they have abused it.

A friend on another forum did once spotlight what he considered some obnoxious behavior on the part of members of the "new power front". He didn't suggest that they were completely in the wrong or that they stand aside and "let the white men lead". He did suggest that maybe they should see the inconsistency between their words and their actions and be honest and admit "we're new to having power and are still learning."

I bring up that last point because it's important to address that even people with the right attitude can be uncertain with change and have trouble adapting.

[uponit7771]

9. The police, I'm scared to stand in the room with the police