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user-inactivated  ·  3176 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Rise of American Authoritarianism

    Even when we try to be racist pricks we fumble it compared to lots of the world.

I don't know if I buy that. On the one hand, a few guys I grew up with joined the Klan and an ex girlfriend joined a National Anarchist group. We have racists as nasty as anyone's, I have known them and I have wondered "where did that come from?" On the other, we don't have parties like Golden Dawn or the British/French National Fronts that threaten to win or actually win elections, so either they're more marginal or the two-party system does some good along with the bad. But I wonder if they'll stay marginal if we have Trump being an openly racist presidential candidate.