The Troubles

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17. The troubles . . .

Love this ~

The white trash cannot tell the difference between King's March on Washington and the Watts riot. And some middle class whites say that good people should use King's tactics to advance, woefully ignorant of either King's economic message or the terrible violence that he and his followers were met with. Both have an inability to understand that the riots, with burning and looting, is not connected to the Democratic Party.

The white trash today, in identifying with Trump, also view the non-white peaceful protesters as dangerous, and the white ones as traitors to the white tribe. Thus, we are seeing the white supremacists -- often with at least low-level support and cooperation from some police -- are convinced that they have license to attack and kill the "enemy." As this cycle increases in strength, we are moving as a society to a domestic version of "The Troubles."

You reminded me of a line from a poem -- "Easter, 1916" by Yeats.

All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

There's such a furious backlash against trump it's nearly impossible to believe he could "win". But he could.

I unfriended my redneck white trash trumper brother-in-law several weeks ago. I hated seeing what he posted come across my feed. Ignorant. Dangerous. His most recent cartoon said,

"34 people died in Chicago this week from Covid gunshot wounds. They will be voting by mail."

Such is his ignorance that this is funny to him.