General Discussion

Racism is just a handy excuse - especially since many of them have voted for minorities and women in the past.
They're powerless and angry and want to burn the whole thing down - they know the future has left them behind, and there's no going back to the golden days of smaller communities where everyone knew their neighbors and jobs were easy to get if you wanted to work.
They used to turn the other cheek, mind their own business, and got by. Now, with no place to hide, their attitude is F*** the rest of the world, and especially f***all those people with more luck, ambition and/or more talent than them and their neighbors that are doing well. Does no good to tell them those "other people" who have been shit on for centuries have learned how to deal, and they should stand in line next to them. These people don't want to hear about the social privileges above "those others" they didn't know they and their grandparents had, just due to the color of their skin and family relations. They're just angry that they can't continue to live the way they had been, that faceless corporations and lobbyists they can't touch have taken their birthright away from them, and they want to burn it all to the ground and start over.

So they decide to get on the team that's following the guy with the flamethrower. No matter how stupid or venal he is, of if he's a liar, cheat, or psychopathic mobster, he's taking on "the establishment" that stole their future from them.

Haele