Years ago I just learned to stay away from those areas of MI and them but reading this made sense to me of where the anger and republican love came from in the rural areas
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/04/03/gordon-duff-the-michigan-militia-movement-americas-left-behind/
In the post 9/11 atmosphere, race resentments have, with some organizations, taken on a guise of “patriotism.” Increasingly, with the radicalization of the media, nothing new for Michigan, hatred and violence are becoming a real threat. The best known radio commentator, the “Glen Beck” and “Rush Limbaugh” of his day was Father Caughlin of Detroit. His daily broadcasts, carried nationwide, blamed “liberals” and Jews for the Depression.
The basis for current militia groups is much the same as it had been under their earlier name, the KKK. Hatred of Jews, Cathoics and African Americans and now Muslims are the only real policy, now hidden behind Fox News/Sarah Palin “bumper sticker” politics. The real story is being “left behind,” disenfranchised and angry. Since the “trickle down” economic theories of the Reagan years, America’s standard of living has steadily diminished while wealth has accumulated in the hands of the few, wealth and control of the press. Thus, the ignorant and angry have become the “Storm Troopers” diffusing any reexamination of failed policies that have resulted in what many call “neo-Feudalism” by attacking those who would oppose the radical deregulations of America’s financial system that brought about the Bush era collapse.
The militia movement has, unknowingly, become “dupes,” the most economically and socially deprived of the nation, yet at war with those whose restruturing of economic checks and balances might rebuild the collapsed economies that have driven them to “Talibanization.”
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