by Colin Hyde
Hn, I saw a list of UDP hopefuls who have applied to run for BelChina when the next big one is called, and it’s minus my friends Rene Montero and Sista B. My, my, I’ve only met a handful of former and present MPs, and one is a dirty rotten crook, they say, and another is a dirty rotten serial absentee—and they are both absent from the new party roll. Their replacements, I don’t even know their names.
Hmm, is that Zenaida following the footsteps of Pehreh, Duggy, Lee Maak, and OJ into Francis Fonseca’s and Albert Vaughan’s Freetown? I should have known that Vaughan Gill was playing mischief when he said Audrey and Zenaida were teaming up to form a people’s movement. Zenaida is back with the Barrows. But Audrey won’t run for the UDP until those Barrows are out.
US Dems worrying about the Right
Andrea Carlo, in EuroNews, says the leader of Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, was “raised largely by her mother” — the absence of a strong father figure has informed her views on rejecting same-sex parenthood – and that she “rallies against some of the menaces she perceives as threatening Western civilisation, ranging from that of ‘LGBT lobbies’ and ‘gender ideology’ — the existence of which her critics fundamentally contest — and radical Islamism.” Carlo says certain commentators worry that under her leadership Italy would be alienated from its partners, but “others think her premiership would not necessarily cause a giant rupture, and that Italy’s foreign policy, especially towards Russia, would remain largely unscathed.”
Olivier Knox, in a Washington Post piece titled “Biden expresses gloom about Italian election”, said the US president is decidedly gloomy about the right-wing victory in the Italian elections. The Italians electing the Brothers of Italy worries the left and middle because the party is said to be the farthest right in that country since Benito Mussolini. Knox said that at a Democratic Governors Association fundraiser, Biden warned that “democracy is at stake” around the world, and speaking directly on the Italian election, he said: “You just saw what’s happened in Italy in that election. You’re seeing what’s happening around the world. And the reason I bother to say that is we can’t be sanguine about what’s happening here either.”
Speaking on what’s happening “here”, meaning there in the US, the American right wing does not accept that their candidate, Donald Trump, was defeated in the last presidential election. Deep issues divide the far right from the rest of the Americans.
There are some common threads in the white far right groups, and one of the most concerning things about them at this time is their position on Europe and the present war in Ukraine. If we remember, US president Donald Trump was very friendly with Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
Steven Pifer, in the 2018 story, “Trump, Putin, and Crimea”, which can be found at the website brookings.edu, said that Trump had given hope to Russia on their position that their annexation of Crimea was “a settled matter.” Pifer said that “while virtually all other U.S. officials maintain that the United States continues to regard Crimea as a part of Ukraine”, Trump had said, prior to a meeting with Russia’s Putin, that “we’re going to have to see”, and that “at a June G-7 summit, he reportedly suggested Crimea should belong to Russia because most people there speak Russian.”
White Supremacy rising
Anthony DiMaggio, in his piece, “Christian White Supremacy Rising: The Fascist Connection”, said political actors of the reactionary kind are rising up in the US, with the mission “to reinforce white supremacy by erasing from public discussions any recognition of people of color, LGBTQ identities, and their struggles.” He said one of the tools they are using is “book banning”….
DiMaggio said the crusade is being led by groups such as the very white “Moms for Liberty” and “No Left Turn in Education,” and behind the mantra of “fighting for the survival of America” they are after “censoring people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals out of existence, while ‘empowering’ a white heteronormative version of identity.”
Remember when white Evangelicals in Belize were saying that the US is lost, and they would make their stand in Belize? Well now those bohgaz in the US are fighting back. Evangelicals feel that God speaks directly to them, so what they think is always best. DiMaggio cites the results of a survey which indicate that 57% of Republicans (mostly Evangelicals) don’t believe the US Constitution allows for their government to declare the country a Christian nation, but “61 percent favor doing so anyway.”
Continuing with the survey, “in 2020, 53 percent of white Evangelical Protestants and 60 percent of Republicans agreed the U.S. ‘punishes men for acting like men’, while 56 percent of white Evangelicals and 63 percent of Republicans agreed the country had ‘become too feminine’…70 percent of White Evangelicals and 79 percent of Republicans in 2020 felt that the ‘killings of black men by police are isolated incidents’, compared to 43 percent of Americans overall.” DiMaggio said the group is more susceptible to “racist beliefs”, more likely to celebrate “white supremacist confederate monuments”, refuses “to recognize the deleterious effects of generations of slavery on black Americans, susceptibility to negative stereotypes depicting black people as lazy and undeserving of assistance”, and exhibit “a general negativity and fearfulness toward people of other races.”
Gay excess fueling white supremacists
Hmm, you see in that last piece how LGBT and color issues are intertwined. Now, the causes of women who are white and people who are black were aided big time in the US by men who are gay. I expect women who have same-sex love were supportive too, but the trophy goes to gay men. Gay men walk a tough road. The L in LGBT hasn’t experienced 1/10th the persecution they have. Maybe we should understand why gay men want so much, but they have to know the cost of their excesses.
It’s high irony that gay men helped white women in their liberation movement, helped Afro-Americans in their civil rights movement, and now, are effectively helping the main oppressor, white supremacists, in their ugly agenda. The story here is that excessive gay demands are diluting the fight against the white supremacists.
Evangelicals might get bex with me fu this, but it is a fact that white supremacists in the US come from the belly of that group. They have much in common. Both are base capitalists. They think welfare/social safety nets encourage laziness, they don’t believe in free or heavily subsidized medical care, and they love to talk about people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. White supremacists in the US, like Evangelicals, believe that Israel can do no wrong.
Many white supremacists share the Evangelical’s puritanical views on sex. But it’s no contradiction that both tolerate the offensive parts of the personal life of Donald Trump. You can call that being practical, pragmatic. They see in Trump’s personal life that he is as “liberal” as the Democrats are, but they can get past that because he serves their core agenda, and because they know that behind the curtains many of them are as rude as he is. From King David to Ravi Zacharias to Jimmy Swaggart and to the Garden, sex is the root cause of much trouble.
White supremacists are locked in step with Evangelicals against LGBT excesses. On this one they have company. Some on the left, in the middle too, support LGBT excesses (We have to pray that Russia doesn’t invade Cuba for their LGBT positions) but a whole heap of us that are at odds with the white supremacists about economic philosophy, safety nets, “NHI”, and Israel, lock arms with them against gay men marrying and gay men adopting children.
Whoa, gays persisting with their excesses, they are making us bedfellows of white supremacists!