Neeum Zawan wrote:
>     I think there are *much* more of these kinds of things going on. 
> It's just that some of them seem big enough to fall under our radar 
> (health issue, Prince, etc). I know this sounds cynical, but this is 
> mostly just business as usual.
>  

Ok. I see your point. Mind things do change some. The racists can't be 
"openly" racist any more, and even they wouldn't, for the most part, go 
as far as the Klan used to, not on our own soil anyway, and not without 
"inventing" some other reason to do it. Progress is slow, but happening, 
and as I said, part of the problem is that the last bastion of some of 
this BS is finding themselves, by their own paranoid actions, holed up 
in one tiny keep, on the side of a mountain, and everyone from the city 
power company to the local plumber's union is now showing up to tell 
them, "Dude, your not under code, and we need to breach the wall a bit 
here to add some wires, or a pipe.". In other words, they are fighting 
an inevitable end of their particular *level* of madness. So, confronted 
with a choice between admitting that a lot of their BS is just fear, and 
all the dire things they think will happen are not going to, they would 
rather make one last, loud, obnoxious, over the top, charge, in hopes 
that they can breach their imagined enemies defenses. They are Don 

most of the next generation, even among some of their general allies, 
are realizing that its madness. But, they *can't* see it. Doing so would 
be admitting they already lost, and that the only way they can win at 
this point is if either their god is real, and ends the world, or they 
destroy everything this country actually stands for, and try to replace 
it (while failing to realize this would make them exactly like every 
fascist power they imagine having fought off, single handedly, in the 
past, with the will to preserve something that only ever existed in 
their own minds in the first place).

It makes them dangerous. Just as dangerous imho, though not necessarily 
as violent, as radical Islam. In fact, they might be more dangerous. All 
radical militants can do is kill you. People willing to do *any* other 
than that, can corrupt and poison everything. Its better to be dealing 
with someone sending a few assassins with a knives, than several similar 
loons, with a bag of arsenic and access to local the public well. Its a 
gift that keeps on giving...

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