Politics_Observer wrote:America was founded on white supremacy. It just didn't always show it's face until recently when Obama got elected twice...
Yep. Nothin' say "white supremacy" like a black guy being elected President.
Twice.
and it really began to show it's face when Trump ran his campaign and then got elected by appealing to the fears, racism and prejudices of white Americans.
No, he got elected because his opponent was a bat-shit crazy hag...
The vast majority of people who voted for Trump did so out of a perception of status threat to wealthy white people here in America. Most Americans who voted Trump were reasonably well off and white and perceived a status threat from the election of Obama and that was motivated in large part to racism too.
There's a town not far from me: Palatka, Florida. Lotsa' tobacco chewin', gun totin', Confedrate flag wavin' bible thumpers over there. They've got their F-150's with the homemade lifts parked out in front of broken down double wides.
And there are towns like that all over the south, and I'd be shocked if any of them
didn't vote for Trump. Wealth had little to do with anything...
A lot of white women voted for Trump despite the controversies surrounding the Access Hollywood video tape and various allegations from women against Trump. The reason why white women voted Trump despite all this is because they perceive that white supremacy suits their best interests.
No, they voted for him because they understood the tape to be no more than it was, and that it was pretty fucking meaningless.
How about blacks who voted for Trump? I'm not talking about the "Obamaphone" folks, but good, decent, hardworking Americans. Why did
they vote for Trump?
But voting for white supremacy is making a deal with the devil.
Which is why no one voted for white supremacy...
Many Germans made that deal with the devil when they voted for Hitler many decades ago.
They were largely coerced and intimidated into doing so...
And white supremacy is not just a problem in the United States, it's a problem in other countries too, like Australia for example. Anyway, their is no changing each other's mind so there is no sense in continuing the discussion.
It's not a "problem" here. Sure, it exists, but it's not running as rampant as many of the whiners on the left would have you believe...
Courage is knowing that something will hurt and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same thing. That's why life is hard...