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In reply to the discussion: My sad expectation for our future [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)lost and don't know it. They're a minority of hard-core conservatives driven by fear and reacting furiously to changes in society's thinking that have already happened. What do you think it means that 77% approved of the peaceful BLM marches in over 700 towns and cities?
As someone put it, posted here this morning, this is "A funeral for white supremacy, for an outdated, outmoded male power. What we are witnessing is backlash. These people are not the future, they are the barnacles on the future that is going to happen with or without them."
It's a long funeral, and they have a lot of big changes to fear, not just racial and gender equality. But they're the current iteration fighting the "fundamental through line" that's run all through our nation's history. We've progressed enormously and a great deal of that progress has occurred during our lifetimes and in us.
Addendum: Here, I went and found this for you. Optimism and long views don't win ratings races, but now and then someone slips a little in.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/the-january-6-insurrection-was-a-last-gasp-for-white-supremacy-99557445706