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In reply to the discussion: THIS!!! A must-read [View all]Karadeniz
(24,763 posts)Officials, rewrite town laws to deprive minorities of economic and political power...where police suffer no consequences for targeting minorities or harming them...where they control who gets hired...
Where they can refuse building permits to non Christians...where they can safely vandalize existing non Christian buildings to try to force them to leave...where children can again be segregated...where their factories don't have to worry with environmental standards. If
That's the America that's existed in places within memory. A Black GI returned to the South from WWII Europe, took a bus home and after hours and hours, asked the driver to stop for a bathroom break. At the next scheduled stop, men who'd been notified about the uppity Black were waiting. They beat him up and blinded him. That may not have been the America he risked his life for, but it was the America those Southerners had.
That's the America of the Proud Boys, the Boogaloos, Oath Keepers and all the fascist groups. The rest of the insurrectionists have chosen to be brainwashed and are convinced the govt is corrupted by Democrats.