On Newsmax's “The Balance”, host Eric Bolling told his guest, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) the invasion of brown people from the South could be called the Great Replacement Theory. But he was not a racist because in his version of the conspiracy, this...
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EXCELLENT. If this is your work, bravissimo! Thanks for bring it here.
Kinda puts the focus on Chauvinism - where it began.
Historical note: though out-of-date, ‘chauvinism’ really is where “it all began”, in a sense.
The “honoree”, one M. Chauvin, was deeply satisfied with the excellence and superiority of his many possessions, ways, and ideas - and contemptuously scornful of all other options; in this way, chauvinism is a touchstone example of provincialism: ‘where *I* come from, everything’s normal; we do things the right way, we have great food, and great people, and we like it that way; we have the best music, the best kids, the best system, so don’t bring bad things from the outside…especially people who don’t want to do everything the way we do it here…and if we leave here, we’ll make sure to tell all those poor souls in the rest of the world what’s wrong with the things they do & believe - & fill them in on what they SHOULD do & believe instead’.
Chauvin, then, held himself as ‘a province of one’, and his ways, beliefs & preferences were better than all others - who should be scorned for being so wrong. In re: Tuberville, he is wedded to his (supplied) imaginary ‘reality’, which OF COURSE takes pride of place above data, fact, or experience.
That it’s substantially intertwined with the modern alt-reality created by endless explanations of “what The Bible(tm) REALLY means (I swear, Jesus told me HIMSELF)” also means it’s surgically joined to the modern alt-history of “white Republican Jesus America”. In other words, the brainwashing of the Tuberville class of programmable parrots is essentially complete (& at a conceptual dead-end…and as the article says,
the embrace of religious fundamentalism as social policy by one political party correlates with the shedding of faith by an increasing number of Americans. And the connection is worth exploring.