OPINION: Whatever public concern galvanizes you — climate change, the pandemic, poverty — it should take a back seat to thwarting the fascist assault on our democracy, writes Rich Barlow.
bother with New Year’s resolutions these days. But thwarting wannabe Mussolinis, military and civilian, requires real patriots, as opposed to MAGA poseurs, to resolve the following in 2022.Resolved: to recognize that the enemy may sit next to you at the Rotary lunch.
Gellman, who researched anti-democratic violence globally, says its practitioners tend to be men in their 20s and 30s, poorly educated and unemployed. But the Jan. 6 insurrectionists had a mean age of 42, when most people are paying the mortgage, not breaking and entering into federal buildings. They were white-collar and schooled.
So what put them in a traitorous funk? “They are much more likely to come from a county in the United States back home in which the white population is in decline,” Gellman says. Similar racial fear infects the 21 million violence-supporters, who “agree overwhelmingly with the proposition that the rights of people of color are exceeding those of whites in today’s society.”
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