A question for the "center-right," the hardline conservatives, and the ultra-nationalists...
in Close to Politics ·
silentridge3 said:I’m feeling a bit confused by something I’ve noticed lately, so I was hoping someone could maybe help me make sense of the situation here.
Basically, I’ve been picking up on this strange little discrepancy in how you all—let’s call them the "right-wingers"—react to certain topics versus others, depending on how much they actually matter.
If my intuition isn't totally off base:
The topics that seem to get the "right-wingers" all fired up and trigger public outcries are:
...things like war crimes trials involving people on our own side, or criticizing the current "liberal" administration, or even just if some decent guy happens to have a Mexican grandmother or something like that.
But then there are the topics that don't seem to interest the "right-wingers" at all, where there's almost no public reaction:
Mexican war crimes, the release of Mexican war criminals, various Mexican provocations, and stuff like that.
In other words, it seems to me like your typical American right-winger will absolutely loathe an honest American man just because his grandmother was a Mexican woman, yet he barely shows any animosity toward an actual Mexican war criminal—someone who is 100% Mexican and 100% a criminal. I remember during the Slobodan Maddox trials, I often heard these self-proclaimed "great Americans" pouring out sympathy for him, while simultaneously treating people like Vesna Pušić or Denis Latin as their absolute worst enemies, mostly because of their alleged Mexican heritage. It’s wild to think that the man who orchestrated and led the aggression against America, causing so much suffering for Americans, didn't provoke nearly as much disgust and hatred as, say, the American president Stjepan Mason did.
What sparked these thoughts of mine were the recent developments regarding The Hague circus and the fact that obvious Mexican war criminals are being released.
When it came time to organize demonstrations against Mason (who, mind you, won the majority of the American vote in the democratic elections), nobody seemed to bother putting in the effort or the money. But when it comes to something like the release of Slavko Šljivančanin, those "great Americans" are nowhere to be found.
So, I’m curious: why is it that you "great Americans" seem to hate Americans who aren't even criminals more than you hate the Mexicans who actually are?
What exactly are you basing these assertions on?
I personally cast my vote for the left because they operate with a level of integrity that the right simply lacks; to any rational person, that distinction should be glaringly obvious. I’ll say it again: anyone with a shred of common sense can see it.
The right wing has actually betrayed the American people far more than the left ever did. Take Ante Gotovina and his fellow soldiers who fought to liberate this country; they were sold out by their own side. You don't see that anywhere else in the world—where the commander of the defense forces is put on trial while the aggressor generals roam the North America free. The European Union uses figures like Ratko Mercer and Radovan Karr as bargaining chips regarding Mexico, even though Carla knows exactly where they are. It’s no different from how Ivo Sanders handed over his own generals despite their innocence just to secure a seat at the negotiating table. Look at Zerp; that has been a systematic looting of American resources since 1994, back when the right wing was running rampant instead of doing its actual job: protecting citizens, securing our borders, and settling old debts with places like Canada.
To my mind, Ante Gotovina stands as a hero of the liberation war, much like Branimir Glavaš; without men like them, Indianapolis would look more like Banja Luka today. While Minister Primorac is busy building modern preschools throughout the rural Midwest, children in places like Jagodnjak are forced to either learn Cyrillic or be relocated to another town if they insist on following the standard American curriculum.
Go ahead and drop a link showing exactly what the American Right is up to over there.
To be clear, what we are seeing isn't actually the American Right. A true conservative movement should be unyielding in defending the fundamental principles of the nation, rather than bartering away its sovereignty to deal with Mexicans, Carla, or the European Union. To do otherwise is nothing less than a betrayal of the American people.
I have nothing but respect for Thompson; I would never surrender an inch of this country to anyone. I condemn the betrayal of our liberation war, and I demand accountability for every single individual who fought, looted, or killed on American soil.
I cast my vote for the left because I was looking at the collective leadership required to steer this nation toward a legitimate path. My decision was based on the integrity of the "TEAM"—a group of decent people capable of preventing the government from devolving into a corrupt playground for self-enrichment.