Every historical event has antecedents. Paradigms drive events, skew perception. Racism in Anerica has a long and sordid history, cloaked in pseudoscience. Eugenics, Hitler's inspiration.
Zero-sum Malthusian economics provides a fertile ground for racist ideology, e.g, Stephen Miller, David Duke's protégé, the evil mastermind behind the "Build the Wall" movement.
I do not recall seeing more than 10 people of Mexican or Central American descent in Virginia before the 1980's. Perhaps I was simply not noticing them. Why the sudden inflow? The War on Drugs. The US & Russia funded wars in Central America.
Refuges who come to the US are often fleeing violence. The US, in many ways, created the conditions for violence in Latin America. Global Warming will only exacerbate mass desperation and population flights.
Buckminster Fuller & Louis Kelso offered a unique paradigm of abundance in the late 1950s & early 1960s. Binary Economics is the antithesis of zero-sum thinking. Reagan himself endorsed Kelso's paradigm which my dad has advocated since he left federal government during the Johnson Administration, frustrated with Liberals who he felt were blocking genuine community action.
With Artificial Intelligence, and a shift away from the carbon economy, using Kelsonian Binary Economics, we could grow ourselves out of our malaise, equitably, without any taxpayer dollars & without taking anything from existing owners.
Not what Joe Biden and the Democratic Party is selling. Not what Republicans are selling either. Both are locked in a zero-sum mindset at a time when we have never been closer to clean, equitable abundance.
Meanwhile, we have people expressing white supremacist ideology from the White House. Fred Trump was in the Klan. Latin Americans are the new Jim Crow, the new targets of "rising tide of color" replacement theory. As Faulkner penned, "the past isn't even the last." We're entering Civil War 2.0.
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