Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark B
EU countries may appear not to be half full of assholes but that's due to having largely homogeneous populations, unlike the United States.
In EU countries those elements of the population that are disliked because they're different are small in number, don't represent a significant threat to the political power of the majority, and can easily be marginalized by the majority.
...
|
I don't think so. The marginalizing of minority elements in populations, typically perped by white people, is not the only issue. An asshole is an asshole, granted, the huge majority of the 46% of asshole Americans who voted for Trump twice, and who will vote for him a third time next year, are racist/xenophobic, religious bigot assholes. But they want a whole lot more than to be able to get away with marginalizing anybody who isn't a European which christian. They marginalize women. They marginalize LGBTQ+ and trans people. And they want to bring down 250 of the democratic process in this country and replace it with some mix of autocracy/plutocracy/theocracy. Every fascist movement finds a scapegoat, here in this country in these times, it's minorities. In 1920's Italy it was communists. In 1930's Germany it was Jews.