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Unifying voices of the disaffected Right under one "banner" or organization - NOT the Republicans
originally posted by: TobyFlenderson
a reply to: DigginFoTroof
The problem with any new parties, either left or right, is that if they gain too much traction they will be taken over by the likes of Soros or the Kochs, infiltrated by the feds and destroyed from within, or both.
I didn't mean that they are targeted or anything but as a contrast to the police shooting blacks. Basically that whites get shot as well which they seem to think NEVER happens and the stats show that more whites are killed than blacks from what I have seen.
originally posted by: Harpua
a reply to: DigginFoTroof
So what are the issues, specifically, that you would want to form this group around?
You mentioned white people who get killed by police. What other issues do you think would bring this group together?
originally posted by: olaru12
Unifying voices of the disaffected Right under one "banner" or organization - NOT the Republicans
Then all you need is an infrastructure with a charismatic leader and plenty of money.
Easy Pezy....
Get a catchy slogan that will interest the media, because it will take national exposure to generate the buzz to attract members and membership dues. Unless you want to attract Corporate sponsors.
Twitter and facebook will only take you so far.
originally posted by: pavil
originally posted by: olaru12
Unifying voices of the disaffected Right under one "banner" or organization - NOT the Republicans
Then all you need is an infrastructure with a charismatic leader and plenty of money.
Easy Pezy....
Get a catchy slogan that will interest the media, because it will take national exposure to generate the buzz to attract members and membership dues. Unless you want to attract Corporate sponsors.
Twitter and facebook will only take you so far.
Hmmm, Sounds like Donald Trump.
originally posted by: FyreByrd
Interesting idea. I'll take it a little further.
I heard earlier today a discussion on the Tribalism in Contemporary US cultural. The social scientist (an Asian Woman btw) was speaking about the good and bad aspects of multiculturalism and how it is leading to hyper-tribalization and violence.
On the good side is that minority groups that have been largely ignored by the majority white culture have begun to make themselves heard.
On the down side, the declining white majority (as you say, the disaffected right) is feeling the fear and oppression that minority cultures have been enduring for centuries.
Both groups are feeling fear and when people are fearful they tend to pull in their boundaries, sticking to members of their own identified 'tribe' at the expense of exploration.
So your Meta-Tribe is an interesting idea. Overcome the divisive tribalism with a larger more collective Tribe.
However, why does it have to be based on race - that's so 20th Century.
The new Meta-Tribe should be based on 'economic' status and opportunity. Poor whites, blacks, browns, yellows, gays, jews, etc have more in common then any Racial, Religiousness or Sexual Group in itself.
So perhaps the US Meta-Tribe could be The Working Class of whatever identification.
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
originally posted by: FyreByrd
Interesting idea. I'll take it a little further.
I heard earlier today a discussion on the Tribalism in Contemporary US cultural. The social scientist (an Asian Woman btw) was speaking about the good and bad aspects of multiculturalism and how it is leading to hyper-tribalization and violence.
On the good side is that minority groups that have been largely ignored by the majority white culture have begun to make themselves heard.
On the down side, the declining white majority (as you say, the disaffected right) is feeling the fear and oppression that minority cultures have been enduring for centuries.
Both groups are feeling fear and when people are fearful they tend to pull in their boundaries, sticking to members of their own identified 'tribe' at the expense of exploration.
So your Meta-Tribe is an interesting idea. Overcome the divisive tribalism with a larger more collective Tribe.
However, why does it have to be based on race - that's so 20th Century.
The new Meta-Tribe should be based on 'economic' status and opportunity. Poor whites, blacks, browns, yellows, gays, jews, etc have more in common then any Racial, Religiousness or Sexual Group in itself.
So perhaps the US Meta-Tribe could be The Working Class of whatever identification.
I agree with most of what you said but I think you mis understood the examples I used as me looking at forming a "white" group. When I used any example that had to do with white people specifically, it is because most whites in the last 40-50 years have been brought up in a culture of shame in the liberal schools, to feel guilty, to hate their own skin color because of some guy in Germany or some even older people who came over in a boat, landed in Plymouth, and "stole" from the natives. Then there is the guilt that is pounded into out heads as soon as we can understand history (civil war) about how we were so evil to allow slavery and that even those who fought to free the slaves are just as guilty. Then the people of the south get it even worse even if they moved there after the Civil war.
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I really didn't mean to make this about white or race at all, but that is one of the main issues facing people born after 1960 as our natural "gaurd" against those of other races, was destroyed by our parents and the school system leaving us to be victims later in life and forcing us to unlearn their "rainbow nation/world BS" and learn from experiences and from what I have seen the vast majority support the original views before the 1960's in so many cases and ways.
the most heartbreaking is that i know there are so many that aren't vicious people who hate whites (or they hide it well) but I also thought that about a few people in college until I heard them talking to each other when they thought no one else was around.
So we need a group that stands up and says what alot of white people have been thinking, have experienced, have felt, have witnessed, etc - especially over the last 20 years as racial tensions have only gotten worse with the divider in chief (bama).
Like I said, a unified voice would be nice, to let others know how many people feel this way, and I can guarantee that there are probably millions who feel the same way, but are too scared to speak out or ask if others feel the same way because they may be labeled as "racist".
Like I said. Many are preparing instead of protesting or rioting all the BS against them.
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
a reply to: FyreByrd
When I say something like 'make us feel guilty" how I preceive this issomething like a kid whose family moved to the US in 1944 and when kids get to HS iin the late 60's through the 70's they are told by the teachers basically how bad they are (meaning the whites) due to american't taking land from indians, slavery, civil war, etc. Depending upon the teacher it could be a militartistic black or some milktoast/limp wrist liberal who he himself is suffering so much personal guilt, it rubs off onto the students.
I'm sorry, I don't have energy to talk about his now, in the middle of project and have to sleep.