The Capitol Riot Explained

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In the mind of the right-wing conservative, the status quo of the past was just and equal.  Moves towards greater equality were thus seen as unjust and at their expense.  Take away the southerners' slaves and they see themselves as the victims.  Force them to give non-whites rights and they see themselves as the victims.  Try to dismantle their means of voter suppression and they see themselves as the victims.  Elect a black man as president and they see themselves as the victims.  Try to address racist violence and they see themselves as the victims. Vote out the most right-wing president in decades and they see themselves as the victims.  Try to end collective romanticizing of the racist past and they see themselves as the victims.  These people see their privilege slipping away and they are prepared to kill and die to keep it from happening.  It happened in 1861 and millions of them are hoping for it to happen again.  They just find new ways of sanitizing and rationalizing it such that it's purely coincidence that their goals align perfectly with the Klan and the Neo-Nazis.

I don't really care about racism but the media censorship really bothers me. The fact is that our media is completely biased.

I don't understand why anyone would feel victimized when minorities get more human rights as the rest of us.

So the right wing is trying to declare a civil war again and a revolution war. I will be expecting more terrorist attacks by the right wing.

Do you mean "the same as" or "more than"? Looks like a grammatical Freudian slip to me!



Well I imagine the FBI are busy right now trying to encourage some lone, mentally ill individuals to try to attack the inauguration, so that the authorities can heroically come to the rescue and justify further clampdowns. And if it happens, millions will fall for it.