5th March 2010
US Extremist Groups Based on Prejudice, Hatred and Violence are Growing
Mark Hanson
The Southern Poverty Law Centre, a civil rights group in the US who have a focus on extreme hate groups, have released a report showing an almost 250% increase in the numbers of extreme right-wing groups in the US last year.
The US has a history of violent White Supremacists and independent militias who take advantage of America’s freedom and gun laws to wage war on minorities and “conspiratorial” politicians.
The Tea Party movement, although populist and with large support, is shot through-and-through with extremist right wing philosophy. Some of their concerns Rabel shares, especially that of increasing moves towards world government and the moves towards more oppressive forms of government.
However, the fierce anti-Obama rhetoric and the propagation of conspiracy theories do not help the pursuit of peace, and are based, largely, on falsehood which is easily swallowed by the poorly educated masses of the US.
The rise of the far-right is of grave concern, and America is appearing to be even more divided in this diverse and disparate nation.
This could have implications for the world, as an anti-Obama backlash at the polls could result in the far-right gaining sufficient traction in the US that we could see a thinly-veiled fascist policy installed.
There could be hope, in that the centre-left is now amassing support and finding its voice in the form of the Coffee Party, yet there remains a concern that US politics is becoming more extreme and that, ironically, these populist campaigns could breed further instability in a country with arguably the most severe problems in the world.
The US spends trillions of dollars on its status as a world Superpower, yet there is a massive population that live in extreme poverty. The far-right in the US, who are almost hideously patriotic, fail to see the real injustices in the country whilst they pursue with fighting talk those who seek peace.
