Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

So you’re saying the base wants nothing but to drag down others to its level?

No, it wants those who it believes to be below them to be below them. Approaching or surpassing them is what they care about. They're real, white Americans and America is for them, darnit.

I’m assuming rational thought where I shouldn’t

That's part of the problem. The other part is they aren't irrational from their point of view, which is status-based.

Don’t these entitled folks assert they’re not getting what they want, and demand they get it?

There was an interesting recent This American Life about Jason Kessler, Charlottesville "Unite the Right" organizer and the Proud Boys. Probably veered a bit too much into rituals and stated non-racist beliefs of that group, but the interview with Kessler was interesting. He didn't get a job, found out a woman did, and he, like the rest of them, was convinced that white men are the most oppressed people in America.

One way to look at this is that those people aren't getting what they want. Another is to understand that these people are morons who have zero understanding of oppression.

I know exactly what he wants. To be adored, and to fatten pockets he thinks will repay the favor. Full stop.

Touche.