Have you read 'Hinterland' by Phil Neal? His analysis really resonates with yours. The big thing is an analysis of the decline and effective departure of the State from rural and disinvested areas, and why the right is able to thrive in that context by taking on some of the necessary community work like disaster response. As things get worse, that will describe more and more of the country I think.
why the right is able to thrive in that context by taking on some of the necessary community work like disaster response.
That explains the Cajun Navy rescuing all those people after Hurricane Harvey. They were abandoned by the government and they had to do it on their own dime and they were so proud of it. "You can piss on our heads and tell us it's raining and we'll smile!"
Given how infantalizing and top-down federal disaster response is, who wouldn't be proud? Even if it is fascist, what organization is going to see the profound suffering of the people (it considers 'the people'!) and sit on the sidelines?
The government fobbing off its work onto you and you doing for them with a smile is humiliating. No compensation, no acknowledgement, all they got were cops and national guard trying to get them out of the way and stop them because they were making them look bad.
Have you read 'Hinterland' by Phil Neal? His analysis really resonates with yours. The big thing is an analysis of the decline and effective departure of the State from rural and disinvested areas, and why the right is able to thrive in that context by taking on some of the necessary community work like disaster response. As things get worse, that will describe more and more of the country I think.
There is a pattern throughout history of the state retreating and being replaced by warlord gangs
just look at Northern Mexico
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it's very short too!
That explains the Cajun Navy rescuing all those people after Hurricane Harvey. They were abandoned by the government and they had to do it on their own dime and they were so proud of it. "You can piss on our heads and tell us it's raining and we'll smile!"
Given how infantalizing and top-down federal disaster response is, who wouldn't be proud? Even if it is fascist, what organization is going to see the profound suffering of the people (it considers 'the people'!) and sit on the sidelines?
Because they're doing the government's job? At their own expense? It's deeply humiliating.
It's humiliating to be abandoned or treated like a non-entity, but I don't see how it's humiliating to take care of people?
The government fobbing off its work onto you and you doing for them with a smile is humiliating. No compensation, no acknowledgement, all they got were cops and national guard trying to get them out of the way and stop them because they were making them look bad.