Here's a serious question about right-wingers in the US
...And I guess anywhere in the world where they have become a danger to ordinary people.
Why do they believe that physical strength, unlimited weapons and unbridled belligerence is the solution to a 'free' society when it is obvious that their intent is to intimidate and frighten other humans and make them fear for their physical existence?
There are a thousand contradictions in their myopic, short-term view that 'survival of the fittest' is the natural state of affairs.
So here is the question; is it their life ambition to crawl to the apex of the rotting heap of bones that represents those who have fallen by the republican, idealogical wayside.
And if it is....how fucking sad and frightening is that.
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As best I can tell, those at both ends (right and left) are driven by anger and by fear. Now it turns out that the propaganda machinery embedded in social media stokes it day and night as well, and also encourages people to get into tight self-reinforcing groups.
Someone upthread gave a good answer expanding on the fear aspect.
I think it’s a worldwide phenomenon, a recurrence of what happened between the World Wars: widespread socioeconomic instability, and the rise of the right wing in its manifestations of Fascism and Nazism and Stalinism. We had it here, as well — there was a big Bund meeting in New York City, the anti-Semitic radio star Father Coughlin spewed his stuff, and the KKK was very active. My late mother remembered all of that era vividly, as it encompassed her childhood and teens.
I was among those fortunate to grow up post-war in a time of expansion and optimism and a general belief that we would just keep progressing. To some of us white people the Civil Rights movement looked like more indications of progress.
And — this, by the way, should not be minimized — we had a common, unifying enemy in the USSR. We could measure ourselves against them — our actual freedoms against their actual oppression. (When I hear the MAGAts bellowing that their “freedoms” are being taken away, I just can’t believe the utter stupidity and ignorance.)
But that was then and this is now. Right-wing authoritarian movements are on the rise in nearly every country of the planet in the early 21st century, as far as I can tell. It’s not just the US, it’s the countries of the EU. South America, Asia. Putin’s destabilizing hand is present, to be sure, but he is not alone in wanting money and power and for no one to tell them “No.” China is ascendent and most Americans have not a clue.
Money, power, and no one to say “no.” Religion is useful, very useful, at least in the US. Racism, coded or not, is useful as hell. So the big thugs use all these means to stir up the smaller thugs. And at a certain point, you really do wonder if they plan to pile up bones and call it victory.
I was supposed to go to bed, but my thoughts ran away from me. Apologies for rambling, but you asked a good question, and its one I have pondered too.
Good night! 
