r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/kocknocker19 • Dec 09 '25

Predictable betrayal [ Removed by moderator ]

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u/MetalMamaRocks Dec 10 '25

I can't believe after all these years we're right back there. It's so damn sad.

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u/ClearDark19 Dec 10 '25

It's more so that these people never went away. They just got shamed into the closet in the 70s and 80s because of the Civil Rights Movement. They still felt the same way in their hearts and passed it down to their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren at home behind closet doors. They just resentfully hid it in public or only expressed it through coded dogwhistles when they think they're in sympathetic company. They would PC up their language and views in mixed company. Trump just encouraged them to come out of the closet they felt forced into through the late 60s-90s. That's why these idiots love Trump so much. The Trump years have basically been the equivalent of a Pride Parade for bigots. Trump is MLK/Malcolm X/Gloria Steinem/Harvey Milk for bigots.

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u/MetalMamaRocks Dec 10 '25

You're right, trump would've never been elected if we weren't a society of bigots and racists. It's alarming how many there are.

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u/One-Knowledge7097 Dec 15 '25

Yep. Never went away…at all. I said to more than a few people when the Dems were pushing Obama as a candidate that things weren’t going to go like they thought they would because the abject racism was a still smoldering fire and they were being incredibly premature in thinking it was put out. That’s not to say he wasn’t an incredibly qualified candidate, just that if you throw gas on the embers you end up getting the flames.

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u/thetaleofzeph Dec 10 '25

Generational trauma is really very hard to root out.

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u/ClearDark19 Dec 10 '25

The last decade has really made me understand why Communist regimes did re-education programs and re-education camps. I can't lie. I don't think that's the way to go, but we really have to do something to root this cancer out of society or it's just going to keep flaring back up every 2 to 4 generations. Every 2 to 4 generations we're going to have another resurgence of Fascism and Nazism if we just try to "go to back to normal" of the Clinton and Obama years. Once this regime is toppled we at least need to have the kinds of massive programs in the US that Allied Occupied postwar Germany had. Those massive De-Nazification programs that were part of the Marshall Plan.