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Related: About this forumThe expert, Kathleen Belew, says call it what it is ...
The "white power" movement... (she starts at 4:48 with quote starting at 6:29 on the PBS Newshour video.)
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Belews book helps explain how we got to todays alt right.Terry Gross, Fresh Air
The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview made up of white supremacy, virulent anticommunism, and apocalyptic faith. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the history of a movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in Waco and Ruby Ridge and with the Oklahoma City bombing and is resurgent under President Trump.
Returning to an America ripped apart by a war they felt they were not allowed to win, a small group of veterans and active-duty military personnel and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists to form a new movement of loosely affiliated independent cells to avoid detection. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place and put them in charge of brokering alliances and birthing future recruits.
Belews disturbing and timely history reminds us that war cannot be contained in time and space: grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action. Based on years of deep immersion in previously classified FBI files and on extensive interviews, Bring the War Home tells the story of American paramilitarism and the birth of the alt-right.
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http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674286078
mopinko
(70,208 posts)i had wondered aloud about drugs and thuggery and hate. and head injuries. this sorta ties that all together. shit.
we are fucked as a species.
what will the aftermath of our endless oil wars be?
littlemissmartypants
(22,797 posts)"Eating our own."
mopinko
(70,208 posts)lets hope that healing their bodies helps heal their "souls" and hearts.
i remember learning that in some native cultures a returning warrior has to stay w the mothers of the tribe, and tell their stories over and over until they are ready to return to tribal life.
a lesson there, methinks.
littlemissmartypants
(22,797 posts)Mother's need to heal you and they deserve to know. Other cultures have trouble dolls, you tell the trouble to. We should do a better job of taking care of our warriors. If you don't tell you wont heal. It's just that simple. Thanks for the reply, mopinko.