Re: My Letter To “Hate Groups” Everywhere

Dear Mr. Singh,

“I write this with the basic premise that people are good. Nevertheless, there are those who choose to act in ways that are not only beyond reason and decency, they are unthinkable. …”

I never chose to become a “hate group.”

The SPLC has labeled this blog as a “hate group” on their website. The “hate group” consists of me sitting here on my laptop writing on this blog, offering takes on politics and history, and laughing at these people and the scam they are running across town in Montgomery.

What have these people ever done to solve Southern poverty? Nothing, as far as I can tell, they are just cashing in on gullible people like you like the other casinos and bingo halls in the Alabama Black Belt. Everyone in this area would be immensely better off if the SPLC was turned into an ATM and the residents of Central Alabama were allowed to withdraw exactly $1,000 a month from Morris Dees’s piggy bank. The partying would last for years when that money is finally put to better use.

“After the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 150,000 instantly, Robert Oppenheimer stated to President Truman: “Mr. President I feel I have blood on my hands.” He was taking moral responsibility for the consequences of his creation. Oppenheimer was a man of conscience, an example of human decency and integrity.”

That’s horrific.

Around 2008, I became interested in a movement known as the Alternative Right. I’m a populist voter who believes in social conservatism and economic fairness. I was also disgusted and alienated from the “conservative movement” by its celebration of the Iraq War. I couldn’t in good conscience vote for a neocon like John McCain who shed the blood of millions in the Middle East.

You’ve probably heard of the “alt-right,” but you have been misinformed about it by the mainstream media. We strongly believe in international peace and prosperity. In this country, no one is more opposed to stupid destructive regime change wars like the ones in Syria or Libya or the one that John Bolton is currently trying to incite in Venezuela right now than people like us.

I don’t want to live through World War III. It is the people in power in Washington, not “hate groups,” who see themselves as embroiled in a renewed Cold War with Russia and China which makes no sense at all to people like us. We didn’t believe any of the mainstream media’s nonsense about how Hillary Clinton lost the election to Donald Trump because of a vast Russian conspiracy.

We voted for Donald Trump because he promised to invest in our country and end those destructive conflicts. We came of age during Iraq and that left quite an impression on us.