One of my favourite sub-strata of the Internet is the very well established right-wing Yank fascination with with what would happen if ... when ... society collapses and a man is forced to defend his God-fearing family from the 'two legged wolves', usually folk of shall we say, another colour.The fantasy is deeply entwined with the hilariously crap white nationalist movement and almost always contains strong racist and anti-Jewish ... the rule of ZOG etc ... tropes.
Although this notion reached its apogee in the late 90s with the Clinton era crackdown on the militia, it has survived and in these troubled economic times (copyright everyone), it is making quite the comeback. Could the much ballyhooed apocalypse finally be upon us?
It is the favourite fantasy of middle aged white American men who substitute guns for their shrivelled, inadequate genitalia and political emasculation by the late capitalist system.
It is of course, utter bullshit. Red Dawn was not a documentary.
Anyway, here, one of the best writers on the Net - The War Nerd - gives a scathing deconstruction of this quasi-fascist fantasy survivalist crap.
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