I fear white supremacy has raised its ugly head again. From my Muftic Forum facebook posting today edited a bit.
Some personal musings and hand-wringing in the marching orders to the Department of Justice, to focus instead on White rights instead of the civil rights of minorities. https://www.cbsnews.com/.../justice-department-reverse...
Except for eggs (the bird flu epidemic seems to be over), the price of groceries has either stayed the same since Trump promised to lower the prices or has risen dramatically in beef and pork. And, no, gas for my car is not under $2 per gal. AAA says it is averaging well over $2 per gal.
Now I am seeing some shifting in polls, with focus instead on groceries and gas is now on the cost of health care, housing, and retirement, which are big-ticket items that even the middle class is feeling the pain about. Other evaluators and opinion writers watch to see if the MAGA devotees are losing their love of TruImp. Still, his MAGA base, by any estimmates comprise 30 to 35% of the total vote, and the majority of the GOP are holding firm. Any shifts recently to blue have come mostly from independents and Hispanics.
I have always felt the cost of living was not the real concern for MAGA, but it was the stand-in issue for other issues still not politically correct to be so open about. Outweighing the cost of living and affordability of modern life is what I would most kindly identify as "cultural". This umbrella term includes racist attitudes. and that the "again" part of the MAGA slogan most likely refers to pre-civil rights legislation of the 1950's. Anti-DEI removal from every government standard in the past year is just fine for Trump's base, and now the DOJ, under Trump's direction, is to protect the rights of White people who have been so discriminated against, even though they are the majority.
The recent 'Monkey flap depicting the Obamas as monkeys' is revealing, given the silence coming from the right with a few exceptions. Trump blames it on a staffer, but has not apologized
That view of Black people was in my most racist Jim Crow eastern Oklhoma birth place and what I experienced and heard until I went off to college in 1956." Negroes were inherently descended from a branch of apes, so it went ,who were therefore inferior and incapable of governing (good at sports and music, however), either to be treated, like children paternalistically, andalso to keep them separate from us White folks. (The Obamas, intellectually, behaviorally, and oratorically, were a slap in the face of the old trope.)
There appears to be still a large segment of Americans stuck in the attitudes of the 1950's, even though there are subsequent generations in leadership. The silence from all but a few to the monkey posting on Trump's media on the right is incriminating. While being called "racist" by those on the left as an insult hurled at MAGA, I fear there are many in MAGA who look in the mirror and are OK with being called one and who are comfortable with a president who has a lifetime history of racist dog whistles and policies that resemble their own feelings.
The icing on the cake, in case you are still upset or sceptical of my view is what happened this past week: While DEI is now removed as a standard for government behavior, the orders from above to the DOJ are now to protect the majority racial groups in power, us White people, who have been so discriminated against by DEI and civil rights legislation. White supremacy has now come out of the closet and into the light as official public policy.
Trump refuses to apologize after posting meme condemned as racist | Watch. Would it be because he would turn off part of this MAGA base who agrees with the belief that the Obamas are descended from apes so they are lesser.
