The White Supremacist, Christian Nationalist anti-Civil Rights Movement is about to strike down women's right to choose their lives as the latest example of America's right wing tyranny. They are a minority in this country but they have captured the Republican Party using The Former Guy as their blunt assault weapon to give them power and protective cover. It is distressing, but I believe they will lose - once again.
THE SEQUENCE:
- 1600 - 1800s - slavery, conquest of indigenous peoples, no women's rights
- 1860 - abolitionist leaning Republican Lincoln wins the Presidential Election
- December 20, 1860 - South Carolina leads the succession of the Confederate states from the Union prior to Lincoln's inauguration
- March 21, 1861 - Cornerstone Speech by the new VP of the Confederacy - Alexander Stephens - "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery -- subordination to the superior race -- is his natural and normal condition."
- 1860 - 1864 - Civil War where the United States defeats the Confederacy
- 1865 - 1869 - Ratification of 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments freeing slaves and defining blacks as citizens with a right to vote
- March 2, 1867 - Reconstruction Act to enforce Constitutional freedoms of blacks
- 1867 - Edward Alfred Pollard of Virginia publishes "The Lost Cause" declaring that the cause of White Supremacy was not defeated by the loss of the Civil War - the war "did not decide negro equality; it did not decide negro suffrage; it did not decide State Rights... And these things which the war did not decide, the Southern people will cling to, still claim, and still assert them in their rights and views" (and too many assert these still today)
- Compromise of 1877 - End of Reconstruction - Democrats agree that Republican Hayes can become president if he removes Federal troops from the South which were enforcing the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
- 1877 - 1965 - Jim Crow laws and brutal crushing punishments of blacks and restrictions of their freedoms and voting rule the South.
- August 18, 1920 - the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote is ratified
- 1965 - Passage of the Voting Rights law allowing blacks to vote unimpeded
- 1968 - Republican President, Richard Nixon, initiates The Southern Strategy to convert the hard core Democratic South to become a hard core Republican South - the anti-Civil Rights movement switches from wearing Democrat hats to wearing Republican hats - and continue their movement
- 1984 - Republican President, Ronald Reagan, decides that even though the business class donates hugely to Republicans, they don't provide enough votes, so he courts Evangelical Christians by promising to pursue ending abortion (he doesn't care, just makes promises, but gets their fervid support)
- 2008 - Barak Obama, the first black president, is elected president
- 2013 - Republican appointed Supreme Court justices gut the Voting Rights bill in a 5-4 decision pretending that racism was a thing of the past in America - Southern Republican states immediately institute voting restrictions on black and brown people
- 2016 - Donald Trump has no chance to win the presidency without Evangelical Christians so he lets them give him a list of Supreme Court Justices who are guaranteed to overturn Roe v Wade.
- 2016 -Trump wins election and appoints three anti-abortion, anti-Civil Rights Supreme Courts Justices - Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett
- 2021 - Republican appointed Supreme Court justices further gutted voting right of black, brown, and red people under the pretense of stopping voter fraud
- 2022 - The Republican appointed Supreme Court justices are about to overturn Roe V Wade which gave women a half a century of freedom to choose abortions and thus freedom to choose their own life
- 2022 - Some Southern States are already banning teaching the history of racism
- 2022 - Some Southern States are already forbidding teaching about gay men and women's history and existence
- 2022 - Republicans are already banning books by the likes of Faulkner, Harper Lee, JK Rowling, Orwell, Anne Frank, Lewis Carroll
WHAT'S NEXT? Likely targets of the White Supremacist, Christian Nationalist anti-Civil Rights Movement:
- Banning contraception
- Re-criminalizing gay sex
- Banning same sex marriage
- Banning funding public schools
- Banning black and brown and red and yellow folks from voting
- Banning immigration from all non-white countries
This sequence shows the eventual takeover of the Republican Party, and their attempt to take over the United States of America. They succeeded in taking over the Republican Party. I believe these White Supremacist, Christian Nationalists comprise about one third of the country.
I think at the heart of their desperations and fears is the fear of losing their status as being on the top of the hierarchical order.
Republican politicians and commentators and opinion media czars inflame those fears and blame the tragic condition of the abandoned and forgotten parts of our country - the thousands of once prosperous mining and manufacturing towns in the country - on immigrants, and special privileges for people of color and women. But it is not that whites are being "replaced" by some Jewish or liberal conspiracy to subjugate whites and elevate all others - women and and other races.
Workers in America, and all the developed world are being replaced by newer technologies, by robots, by computers, by obsolescence. The most powerful statement of Economics 101 is - with the rise of the automobile, the demand for buggy whips declined dramatically. That is the economic system in action. It produces opportunities anew, and tragedies as well, and especially it offers great opportunity for Populist Frauds to rise to power with simplistic slogans and unfillable promises - from Trump, Putin, Orban, etc to the new wannabee tyrants like Cruz and DeSantis.
I believe they are going to fail at taking over the country. I refuse to give up hope on America, or on democracy, or on the fundamental goodness of people in this country.
Vote please.
