Tell me how you reform a country that was 5% KKK members less than 100 years ago.

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    There's definitely another universe in very close proximity to our own where in the 1930s white US Americans totally get behind a fascist who does a genocide on black Americans.

    • DeepPoliSci [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      The fascist coup financed by JP Morgan & Prescott Bush in 1934 boasted 500,000 members organized through the American Legion. A major reason it failed was that the general they drafted to lead the coup, Smedley Butler, was a diehard Liberal and opposed overthrowing the democratically elected government. The world you are describing was barely avoided.

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