Remembering January 6th Drives Me Into A Rage
I Don’t Like This Day
#January6 #politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2026/01/06/i-dont-like-this-day/
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@WarnerCrocker I wonder, how much of their rage is a common and justified rage?
I've been living with a simmering rage since the early 1990s when I began exploring beyond what I'd been told about the history of this hemisphere and the US in particular. I was 23ish years old when I began to realize that the America I thought I grew up in was largely a fabrication created by the wealthy in a class war.
It seems to me the root of fascism is this deception designed to obscure class conflict.
@dennyhenke I think most of their rage is both all too common and all too justified. Political theorists speak of the horseshoe theory. It's a complete circle that no one wants to acknowledge.
Sadly, those in power now are just far better at channeling that rage than those that oppose them, who are also enthralled and entitled by the same forces that fund either/both sides. Add to that mix the racism that makes it easier to stir the pot and you've got a potent brew.
@WarnerCrocker It seems there is manipulation all around. That the flip side of the "mob" is the steadfastness of the more comfortable, the middle and upper middle class of folks that are fairly comfortable. Those that may have complaints with the system but don't want to rock the boat because they are comfortable enough. Maybe they vote, maybe they don't. But they most assuredly root for their favorite sports team, watch their sitcoms, scroll instagram.
The buffer, the ballast.
@dennyhenke Those that want to rule depend on a majority concerned about feeding their kids and themselves who don't want to rock any boats that might upset their status quo. Manipulating that middle is far too easy a task when either side paints the other as extreme. Even easier when you one side can't compete successfully in the maniuplation game
@WarnerCrocker Most of the people I've known in my life engage in a kind of willful ignorance of the fundamental truths of the history of the US. They've got it good enough. Their attitude is "just be happy", "you can't change the system" etc. Of course, it just so happens that as middle class white folk they're doing pretty well in the system. They're enjoying the fruits of systemic white supremacy and don't want to see it. Refuse to see it. History is history, move on.
Denial leads us here.
@WarnerCrocker My brother is MAGA. It's been awhile since we've spoken. But in the years before I never knew him to be a person willing to accept or acknowledge how we got here. He's the worst sort of MAGA in that he's fairly comfortable. Any rage he feels not based on struggle as a working person. It's pure racism. He's the flip side of a comfortable liberal. Same comfort and position in the middle class, but he has no tolerance, no empathy. He's openly cruel though he'd never admit it.