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Originally Posted by scotlandforever
I can't speak for other people here and certainly I bear no resemblance whatsoever to a saint  but I am here, amongst other things, because I care what happens in the world and have a complete inability to accept perceived injustice. I am one of those who would respond to someone like yourself, for several reasons.
I cannot understand how people like you think. It is fascinating to me in the same way that it is fascinating to read about how a terrorist or a serial killer's mind works...normal people are horrified yet interested at the same time. You would never wish to associate with such a person, but it is reasonable to be interested in how they became what they are.
Know your enemy, to be informed is always a good idea. Why are you here? Presumably to try to recruit and brainwash the weak?
However, you are a sad person IMO and as a charitable sort I would still talk with you and do whatever I could to try to help you. Your views are horrible. I cannot imagine what a terrible world this would be should you ever achieve any power. Have you ever considered tolerance and acceptance of diversity as a way forward? |
I think I might be of some assistance here. After 15 years of reading the extreme right propoganda (not just here on USPOL evidently) my conclusion is that the primary motivation of the the extreme right is fear.
This fear is based upon an incapacity to deal with the ever changing nature of society, which causes them to fail in the expectations of society. Sociologically the appeal of the extreme right, both actively and passively, is focused on people that live on the fringe of society. The demographics of their electorate will show that again and again.
This inadequacy is externalized in two different ways, which almost always are used concurrently. First, the inferiority complex due to their non functioning is overcompensated by a creed of superiority. It is for instance quite ironical that white nationalists are often considered as "white trash" by functioning members of society. Needless to say that this latter fact only enforces the need to manifest superiority which then leads to their labelling members of the very group they perceive to belong to, but whom disagree with them, and whom they theoretically perceive as superior, as inferior. Apparently, the irony of this completely escapes them.
Secondly, since from their selfperception of superiority, it is not conceivably possible that they are themselves the cause of their failure to function in society, a scapegoat needs to be found which can fulfill that role. This could be Jews, blacks, immigrants, Arabs, take your pick. The choice need not be rational, and it never is, which is clearly demonstrated when the exact same event is often blamed by one extreme right person on his specific scapegoat group and by another on his specific, but different, scapegoat group. Facts be damned.
A third, though less important attribute, is the creation of a fictional past for the group they use as their 'kind'. The USA for instance has never been 'white', and Europe has never been 'immigrant free'. Yet, some point in the past will be considered as such and will be further embellished by claiming the absence of criminality for it, or the perfect functioning of society, or complete adherence by the population to societal, legal or religious norms, and so on. Needless to say, that never happened and is a fictional Utopia. It's pure escapism from a reality they can't cope with.
Disclaimer : This analysis is based upon 15 years of observation of the whole spectrum of the extreme right and may or may not be applicable to specific individuals. Don't know. Don't care.