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05/31/2008: "Neo-Nazis divided, disorganized, dysfunctional"
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit organization that monitors and pursues legal action against hate groups, says that while groups like the NSM have shot up in membership, these groups are divided and disorganized. Some previously large white supremacist groups like the Aryan Nations are now a shadow of their former selves. Power struggles within the National Socialist Movement, including the defection of several high-profile members, have depleted its ranks. Some former members went on to form their own groups, or join rival organizations. Others turned out to be FBI informants.
[ What is the cause of our dysfunction? It's our liberal within, and here are its symptoms:
1. Individualism. People become nationalists to make themselves seem cooler, e.g., for the same reason people become liberals. The disease of social self-judgment has reached us as well.
2. No one other than a handful of people understand the ideology because most neo-Nazis insist on distilling it to complaining and hatred in order to attract more members.
3. Incompetence. NS people are so used to being demonized that they accept anyone who swears by their beliefs, no matter how insane (or obviously an informant) this person is.
4. Loudmouths. When you make ideology a rush to the bottom, the loudmouths get all the attention, and thoughtful/powerful people go elsewhere. Smart people get shouted down by impoverished, diseased, angry and impotent failures because the failures "express more fully" their distillation of NS ideology.
A formula for failure. ]
http://jscms.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2008-04-29/goelman-neonazimalaise