Extremism and supremacy aren’t things you just mosey on into.

Oh my God I am so tired of this drumbeat. “The right wing extremists are taking over!”; “Everyone but us is a white supremacist!!” Wanna start sounding 75% smarter immediately? Stop saying that. Because if you can throw those terms around so casually you have no fucking idea what they mean. If you can use them like generic insults you do not understand the depth of evil you’re playing with.

Extremism and supremacy aren’t things you just mosey on into. You gotta be born to that. You gotta be raised for that. And you gotta be all in; membership demands a level of destructive ugly that I don’t think most people are even capable of. And you don’t understand the scope of their hatred. You’ll look a long time before you find a white guy whiter than me; blond, blue, Irish and German, baby. And I know for a natural fact they want me dead. I have black friends, and I have gay friends; even though I have nothing whatsoever to do with the extremist’s world, that makes me a traitor. And that’s a death sentence.

I don’t have to worry about that too much though. Because even THEY know their day is long past gone; there aren’t anywhere near as many of them as you’re constantly being told, and it’s been a very long time since they’ve held any meaningful political clout. That’s good news, and it’s a measure of what the media has done to this country that you don’t want to hear it. It’s a measure of how little you understand them that you don’t believe it.

Just look around. All the “occupying”–the unruly protests and outright riots? None of that would be happening if they had the power to stop it. Shaming people into silence by calling them Nazis and racists certainly wouldn’t work; those are the extremist’s preferred pronouns. If they controlled anything, the antifa movement would’ve lasted all of about two hours, and that includes travel time. But they don’t have that kind of power. They absolutely ARE dangerous, but they’re not much of a threat to anything they can’t physically put their individual hands on. They’ve been reduced to sad little pockets of nasty scattered around in the shadows.

You didn’t do that. WE did that. White, black, conservative and liberal did that. White, black, conservative, and liberal died for that. And you’re not just saying that doesn’t matter, you’re saying that didn’t happen. A whole lot of people you don’t want to know about lost everything in that fight, and you hold your festive little rallies to lump them in with the exact people they lost it to protect you from.

Don’t imagine for a second that the extremists really do have power but it’s you keeping them to heel with your vigilance. Those people are not afraid to die, they are not afraid of prison, and they most certainly are not afraid of you. You’re not courageously standing up to a grave and gathering threat; you’re calling anyone who disagrees with you a Nazi then claiming credit when they don’t do Nazi things.

You don’t want to get within arm’s reach of an actual extremist, and a small group can unrally a rally pretty quick. But their power to terrorize the country comes entirely from the people who keep insisting they’re running everything.

They gotta be absolutely ecstatic to hear national news networks artificially inflate their numbers up to levels they haven’t had in generations, and to watch the top tier D politicians grab for the fear vote by hyperventilating over how we’re just one election away from slavery and concentration camps. Good people died to cripple the groups that really want that future. All you gotta do is stop supporting the groups that keep telling you those good people died for nothing.

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Bama has been a rodeo cowboy, a professional stuntman, and, for 38 years and counting, a bouncer at various biker bars redneck rat cage juke joints through the Deep South. He makes cool stuff as Crimson Tied Paragear using knots his Army Ranger Scoutmaster taught him at Boy Scout summer camp deep in the Okinawan boonies back in 1972.

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