White Supremacy Is Doomed To Crumble Under Its Own Weight

All they can do is take and no matter how much we give, it’s never enough

When I was in high school, I had a friend who was a total charlatan. Everybody knew it. I knew it too. But those are the kind of people you hang around with in high school because you lack the experience to predict the consequences.

This friend decided he wanted to be president of the writing club. So, at the first meeting, he got up and gave a fiery speech. He gave it with a big grin so you couldn’t quite tell if he was serious or not. He used the space at the front of the classroom well and made grandiose promises.

He growled a lot.

It was entertaining, but kind of ridiculous.

When he got done, another student stepped forward to present his case. He gave a reserved speech in which he admitted he wasn’t as flamboyant as his opponent, but he’d served as the vice-president the year before and knew what the job required.

My friend won the election.

Even at the time, I thought that maybe it was a bad choice, but I thought I’d give him the benefit of the doubt. But, my friend quickly lost interest. At the next meeting there were half as many people. By the third meeting there was almost nobody. In the end, the whole club was disbanded. My friend completely ran it into the ground.

The older I get, the more I see this scenario repeat again and again. I don’t know if it’s a flaw in human nature or if it’s a peculiarity specific to citizens of the United States. When it comes to an election, a disturbing percentage of the population is willing to be swept along by the lies of a flamboyant fraud. That candidate then gets into office, runs everything into the ground, and his supporters falsely blame whatever decent politician is stuck cleaning up the mess.

It seems that American society never holds the right people accountable. We never seem to learn from our mistakes. Those that espouse philosophies of hatred are able to generate huge followings in a short period of time. However, when it comes time for those people to lead, they are only capable of destruction and passing the blame.

Trump, inflation and the national debt

Many of the individuals who attacked the Capitol in Trump’s name were Nazi sympathizers, or people carrying Confederate flags. This shows that people who harbor white supremacist ideologies were enthusiastic about the Trump presidency.

Perhaps the most pathetic component about the insurrection and the enduring denials that Trump lost is the fact that the Trump administration was fated to collapse under its own weight. Whether they want to recognize it or not, Trump wasn’t going to last. His policies were unsustainable, and we’re still reaping the consequences.

He was terrible for job creation and he stuck us with an appalling amount of debt.

The colossal amount of debt that Trump generated is not getting nearly enough media attention. I believe that the inflation that hounded the Biden administration is largely due to out-of-control Republican spending.

In my lifetime at least, it seems as if Republican presidents always mange to slip “poison pills” into the economy. It’s like they intentionally want to collapse our whole society two years into their successor’s term so that their party can regain power.

How many times do we have to watch this play out before the voting public starts to wise up? It’s no secret why there is inflation. It’s because of the tax cuts for millionaires. Why isn’t anyone saying so?

At some point our society has to accept that we can’t continue to print money and turn it over to the already obscenely rich. The Republicans seem to be taking their strategies from the very worst people in all of human history.

Intentional failure is how white supremacy works

One of the many problems with the docile approach we take to interpreting the Civil War is that we are rendered incapable of learning any lessons. For some reason, many Americans think it’s important to allow the treasonous Confederates to retain some sense of “honor.” However, that approach blinds us to the fact that the Confederacy was a failed state designed by traitors against humanity.

Very much like today’s Republican party.

Slave owners presided over a society that didn’t work. That authoritarian concept will never work. There’s nothing to respect or revere in their example. They were universally horrible and need to be denounced as such.

It’s vital that we call the Confederacy what it was so that future generations can avoid marching down the road to ruin. History has proven that any system built on the back of white supremacy will fail. Had the Civil War not put the south out of its misery, their own flawed belief system surely would have done the job.

Perhaps we can be encouraged by the idea that our opponents are doomed to failure. However, the danger is that their philosophy is so evil and incompetent that it threatens to take the rest of us down with them.

The “poison pill” strategy is proof of a doomed ideology. They intentionally sabotage the country for their own political gain.

We’re at a tipping point. Erosion of decency has undermined the foundations of our very ability to survive. Today, it’s considered “rude” to call out liars, and liars feel entitled to spread their vulgar beliefs uncontested.

This is backwards.

It doesn’t work. None of what white supremacists stand for has a chance of ever functioning. They are charlatans who don’t know how to lead. They can only destroy and we have to start saying so.

White supremacists are laughably incompetent

Sometimes to get a true sense of history you have to read between the lines. Historical texts are often limited to verifiable facts which might provide little more than a suggestion of the prevailing contemporary opinion.

It’s the difference between how a couple presents themselves on social media versus what you know to be true.

Therefore, when you get a hint of interpersonal conflict in a historical text, you might assume the reality of the situation was extremely hostile. Alexander H. Stephens, author of the Cornerstone speech, could rightfully be called one of the founding fathers of American racism. But when he served as the Vice-President of the Confederacy, he spent most of his time sulking at home like a petulant child.

This is something we see over and over again. Loudmouths rise to power and make a mess of things, then they never stick around to clean up after themselves. They whine and cry about how they’re unfairly “persecuted,” or how they’re “victims.”

On top of that, anyone who offers legitimate criticism of these people that is substantiated with facts is shunned and called “rude” or “inappropriate.” In extreme cases, they’re accused of “erasing history.”

It would be laughably absurd if it wasn’t so devastating.

White supremacy can’t survive, but can the human race?

If you look around the desolate landscape of the modern United States, there isn’t much cause for hope. It seems like bad people are never held accountable, and good people are blamed for the transgressions of others.

Since its inception, white supremacy has been fused with the fundamental identity of this country. It’s a cancer that has spread throughout the whole organism. Can the cancer be removed without killing the patient? That remains to be seen. In fact, it remains to be seen if anyone will actually try.

I started this article with a story about my friend in high school who was a complete fraud. It could be said that he single-handedly destroyed the writing club, but that’s not accurate. I bear some of the blame because I was there and witnessed it and did nothing. The teachers bear even more of the blame since they, presumably, had the experience to recognize he was a fraud and they said nothing.

People who stomp around insisting that Trump actually won in 2020 fail to comprehend that Trump wasn’t capable of winning. If he’d stayed in office, the whole country would have collapsed just as the American South would have collapsed if the Civil War hadn’t happened.

White supremacy is the philosophy of incompetence. It’s impossible for it to win because all it can do is sulk and blame others, it never offers any solutions.

Otherwise good people keep sitting on their hands holding out hope that those who offer sanctuary to the philosophy of evil will eventually see the light. At some point our society has to recognize that they are never going to see the light. They don’t engage in honest discourse. They refuse to compromise and seek only to destroy.

Yes, it hurts the feelings of white supremacists if we expose the absolute failure of their belief system. Frankly, I don’t care about their feelings. I care about handing over a functioning society to my children.

You should care about that too.

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