I don't think the US really does, but the thieves, money grubbing greedheads and batshit insane crazy people have been winning a well-funded war of political attrition since the end of WWII.

Most of the population is broadly center-left in practice, but has been excluded from policy and the media to create an impression that the US is somewhere between hard right and economic KKK right.

We should stop being polite about the crazies, or accepting their premise that wearing a suit or being published in a serious paper makes them respectable.

The Think Tanks may not dress up in white robes so they can lynch the niggers in person, but they have no problem at all putting them out of work, making them homeless and leaving them to rot.

At least they believe in equal opportunity of a sort - it's no longer necessary to be black and poor to be a nigger who's treated abusively.

And if this rhetoric is offensive - it's not nearly as offensive as the reality.