24, dr. Phil, and a whole lot of other trash from that era sowed the seeds of the current faacism-lite brewing in America right now. Neoconservatism is as much of a cancer as civic nationalism is.

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potato3732842 5 days ago | parent [-]

Because the piecemeal sellout of the nation's industrial base to the far east on environmental grounds and then the piecemeal closure of any remaining paths up into the middle class on comparable grounds was such a resounding success?

The peddlers of the things that caused the legitimate gripes that drove them into the harms of these movements need to do some looking in the mirror.

Most people don't care about most issues most of the time. If they're holding their nose and voting for blatant extremism, the people they're not voting for ought to do some reflecting.

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soared 5 days ago | parent [-]

People are racist because of offshoring?

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potato3732842 5 days ago | parent [-]

People are racist because people do simple pattern matching and the people and groups have a bunch of overlap with the people and groups that did the border opening (which was also bad for the people hurt by the off shoring) who have a bunch of overlap with the people who were making the most noise about racism.

It's literally "owning the libs" but on a cultural level.

I'm not saying it's smart or right, but it doesn't take a genius to see what's going on here.

	▲	BriggyDwiggs42 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Who opened the border and what color were they? From my perspective these are more retroactive constructions of a history which justifies and explains many people’s declining economic statuses along with a whole host of elites who are supposedly responsible, with the most extreme blaming entire racial groups. In reality if there were anyone to blame it would be a roster of republican and democrat deregulators (especially reagan) who allowed corporations to grow more consolidated and politically powerful, alongside an unavoidable and natural specialization in the types of labor our country performs as it gets more advanced.