cpicciolini

Promise of power, inclusion, protection, sense of community, your ideology shifts once you're given reasons to blame others for your shortcomings or problems.

I think that anytime there are large unemployment rates, inequality, lack of opportunity ANY society will have to deal with extremism. I joined the white power movement for the same reasons that young Americans go to Syria and join ISIS.

Need to fix this problem everywhere.

It's a great scene in the book. He sent an attache to meet with a Canadian racist, who in turn sent someone to ask for my group to be involved in a trip to Libya to receive funds to fight the Jews in America. I turned it down. I wasn't interested in being a traitor to the US. Turned out to be a Canadian Intelligence undercover operation. Phew!

Repetition of thought. Rhetoric. Reinforcement of insecurities backed by promises of comfort, power, and supremacy. Music was the most effective propaganda tool for white power skinheads in the 80s and 90s. Even now.

I was not raised to be a racist. In fact, my parents came to this country in the 60s from Italy and they were often the victims of prejudice themselves. I formed these opinions on my own because I was searching for meaning. I wanted to fit in. When I met a group that I thought filled those needs, I was like putty.

Like the rest of our ideologies, we were delusional.

Though I do believe that most revolutions have started with just a spark. Our spark was unsustainable and illogical.