There was a fascist coup attempt on Franklin.D Roosevelt, I think it was called "business plot", so we were close to the US being the same flavor of fascism
I feel like about 20 years ago libs could at least agree with us that the KKK were absolutely the objectively bad guys, and we should've capitalized on it and said that we ought to do them like we did the Nazis; today though libs are seriously running defense for members of the actual SS, so there's no way anyone's going to convince them to put their boot down on the KKK.
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The klan really was ubiquitous, kinda crazy how we pretend america wasn't just a different flavor of fascism
There was a fascist coup attempt on Franklin.D Roosevelt, I think it was called "business plot", so we were close to the US being the same flavor of fascism
My mom remembers getting blocked from getting home from volleyball meets by their parades in suburban Austin in fucking ≈1986
Sun-maid and Sunkist growers co-ops had the KKK murder communists and agro labor strikers in the 1930s
The Klan should be seen as an anti-communist organization and the leadership certainly thinks of itself this way.
I feel like about 20 years ago libs could at least agree with us that the KKK were absolutely the objectively bad guys, and we should've capitalized on it and said that we ought to do them like we did the Nazis; today though libs are seriously running defense for members of the actual SS, so there's no way anyone's going to convince them to put their boot down on the KKK.