when pricks protest

as it turns out, many of the people who protested today were angry white redneck types who want to secede and who think the federal government is run by communists. yes, they are mad at paying taxes, but they are not anti-war, nor do they seem to know that a great share of our taxes go to prosecute the very wars they tend to blindly support. in short, they appear to be the lumpen rabble that could push this nation to a more overt form of fascism. they already have the racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, nationalist, and homophobic beliefs. perhaps all they need are politicians to explicate those same ideologies. of course, the "brilliance" of our country is that our political and economic structures use the facade of liberty and equality to disguise deep injustices, but the lumpen care not for this "brilliance."
over 50 years ago, c. wright mills called america "a conservative country without a conservative ideology." in a sense, this is what makes it work, but angry, blue collar conservatives, as well as many members of the business and political elites, want a conservative ideology, and they believe its absense to be proof that america is not a conservative country. they fume about racial diversity, sexual depictions in the culture, the increasing acceptance of homosexuality, at the gains of women, and about immigrants, and they are hard at work in creating a culture and an ideology that speaks to their fascist tendencies. c wright's remark essentially holds up, but it has been challenged since the reagan years, and will continue to be in the coming years. the obama presidency, and the economic crisis will likely be the current excuses for their militancy, but they are no more than excuses. for who among them raised a voice during the eight years of the bush presidency? were our tax dollars not wasted from 2000 to 2008? did the economy not further decline during those years? did not bush himself advocate for the bailouts now being exclusively blamed on obama? (who also supported them, and should be criticized for having done so) this is why they are excuses and not reasons, for the radical white right will only incorporate reality when it serves their largely fantasy driven purposes. for surely, there was horrendous inflation in pre nazi germany, and germany was wrongly scapegoated and sanctioned by the victors of world war one. these grievances were real, but they served the ends of fantasy. fascism is not a total lie, but largely a lie which incorporates twisted truths. to a great extent, this is true of our own society, but these folks want to eliminate what little good currently exists, and replace it with a nightmare society of cultural rigidity and reactionism.

so today, it's the economy, but tomorrow it will be the horrors of hip hop, and the next day it will be evolution in the schools. it's whatever they can use to rally the troops.

i'm talkin about some scary motherfuckers.