Before you read further, keep in mind, that some of my
dearest friends are Caucasians. Yet it’s my assertion that “White supremacy,” in the
pursuit of total domination, control, and
power, is the toxic glue that holds Trump’s
klan sheet white America together, and keeps
them politically on the same lordly page. Not Jimmy Graham’s Christianity, not laissez faire “cutthroat” capitalism, nor the love
of one’s democratic country patriotism.
This aspiration is the “how” and “why” behind mainstream
White America’s damn-near blind and monolithic
support for the despicable, unscrupulous, and
ignoble Donald Trump. It is why their
representatives in the US Congress got in line behind a man with the mentality of a
caveman, who helped plot the January 6th
seditious mutiny, Mike Johnson. This audacious
power they seek to maintain is the primary
motivating factor explaining why they won’t
even entertain the notion of legitimate gun
control.
3rd-class Americans must be
kept in their place.
I argue most of White America, the “Make America Great/1957
White Again” base, those good, decent baby
Jesus lovin’, God-fearing real, authentic US
patriots would vote for US President the
sinister Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin before
they would vote for Vice President Kamala
Harris.
They’d support “Tricky Dick”
Richard Nixon if he were still alive. Same for
the 1861 Confederacy’s only President,
Jefferson Davis. George Wallace, sure. I’d
submit Adolf Hitler could garner 50% of the
mainstream Republican base’s support in 2024.
“How,” and “Why?”
“Control” and “dominance” (power)
thriving within both American and global
society trumps all other elements of a civilized civilization - up to and including brotherhood, liberty,
justice, freedom, sisterhood, equality,
decency, and honor.
It appears, and perhaps I’m being a tad cynical, but I
don’t believe I am - their internal racial/tribal creed rejects any
high-minded, goody-two-shoes notion that “I’m
my brother/sister’s keeper.” I think the
average White guy contemptuously sneers and
scoffs at the idea of “One for all, all for
one.’
“Survival of the fittest… and richest” is the rule of the
day, and the man with the most riches makes
the rules. Think Lord of The Flies, the old 1950s Black n’ White flick.
“Every man for himself” - you bet. Any social safety nets designed to not let the
everyday little person fall through the cracks
is rejected. FDR’s “New Deal” - despised MLK’s
“Dream...,” no interest in, and LBJ’s “Great Society” - no way. Every man for himself.
The civilized thought of “women
and children first “ was rejected on the RMS Titanic in
1912, imagine how that idea would play out
in 2024. You don’t want to be on a Carnival or Royal Caribbean floating city and have a leak with all those Trump
cult followers on board.
In my opinion, as a people with shared WASP values, and a
shared WASP culture - mainstream White
Americans laugh at the concept of “TEAM
USA. Together, Everyone Accomplishes
More” A slightly racially integrated America in circa 1972 saw
the first strategic steps in abandoning the
far too Black and Brown working class - the
“American Dream” was dismissed so the
virtually snow-white investor class could live like “fat cats.” White flight and the
abandonment of cities, sabotaging the public
school system with academic mediocrity,
remains the widely embraced goal.
Of course, in a pre-integrated America, these rules of engagement mattered more, and were, to a degree, adhered to,
but since Obama… compromise, give and take,
accommodation, middle ground, and modus vivendi have been rejected. The threat of living under the
leadership, alas, rule of a Black person, is
akin to the sky falling.
The MAGA nightmare: Asian boss,
Arab principal at kid’s school, Latino
American neighbors, Black in-laws, and gay
co-workers. It’s all too much for the Klan.
Ask most White people what they think of the United
Nations, as I did last week, and they almost
all told me they hate the UN. In essence, yes,
they hate the world. They see it as a
collection of “shithole countries,” led by
people of a lesser God.
As we speak, the global coalition of peoples, requesting
the established powers around the world, to
halt the bloody Middle Eastern madness, has no
relevance or respect at their roundtable of
power, none. No matter if the peoples of the
world say cease and hammer out a peaceful
coexistence, they won’t. They could, but they
won’t.
White people, led by White men, want preeminence, via
power, audacious and overwhelming power - by
any barbaric and archaic means they deem
appropriate. The AR-15 and 5000 nuclear bombs
make that point. They will never have too many of either.
Here, in this divided and extremely combustible nation,
White men want their guns to protect their
lofty, and arguably undeserved status in
society. They’re locked and cocked, just going
to Costco. They see all other subgroups as
well-armed, genetically inclined, born criminals - undeniably inferiors who are envious of White
guy’s high n’ mighty place atop all.
They also recognize their
stranglehold on power as being “imperil” and
“vulnerable” - and I think they’re correct.
White America has always feared the aristocratic crown/big
federal government, (see civil war) and that
was enhanced by the election of Bill Clinton
because he was thought to be willing to use
the military to put down the White revolt
great White hope Ronnie “666” Ray-Gun started.
Good old boys and Rednecks, those who brand
themselves as the only legitimate and
hard-working Americans, didn’t trust the
Commie-Pinko Negro-Lover Clinton. Hence, the
growth of the National Rifle
Association, and the rebirth of White vigilantes camouflaged as 1776
patriotic militias.
By the 1990s White folks could see Push had come to shove - Americans of color, led by Black Americans, wanted their
blood-soaked liberty, equality, and land back.
We no longer were brainwashed, we now wanted
our well-earned piece of the American Pie. Far too many of us were “uppity,” didn’t know our
assigned place, and were damn proud of it.
Yet another reason for the
average White dude to purchase his own
personal automatic bazooka.
In my summation, White folks, primarily men, harbor very
little shame or guilt for “how” they rigged
society, pimped, exploited, and excluded
everyone, because, as far as they are
concerned, we aren’t really human.
Nonetheless, they are full of well-earned and
justifiable paranoia today. They know that we
know that they knowingly lied, cheated, and
stole to manipulate their illicit stranglehold
on privilege and power. And yet, they don’t really give a damn because they simply just want to win.
Both morality and politics are
irrelevant at this point.
It’s all about society-wide control and dominance. Call it
White supremacy.
Today, the “Make America
Great/1957 White Again” revolt represents the
high point in this White backlash movement to
restructure America, but now it has a distinct
mean, nasty retribution and vengeance feel to
it.
