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The worst part about this is that, in a racist, fascist world, them getting burned by their own hatred is the only downside.
Which means that, from their perspective, there is room for improvement.
Trump fascists are really just billionaire dark government.
But these people genuinely hate and want pain, death, and destruction for other people.
What in the actual fuck, humanity??
Dont blame this on humanity as a whole, when it has always only been a minority doing this
Honestly? I'm not sure anymore.
Either way, do you think it's a gene? Or like a full-on phenotype? Or something else, like lead poisoning or just general cognitive impairment?
I think of conservatism as behaving kind of like an immune system. People who are conservative tend to be overly concerned with things like purity and group cohesion, and react negatively to anything unfamiliar unless you hold their hand and show them it's ok. Sometimes this is a good thing for a society at large -helps maintain vigilance against external threats- but other times you get full-blown immune disorders, where the immune system can no longer distinguish an appropriate response from an excessive one, or a dangerous agent from a benign one, or starts to attack its own body.
Being trained from birth by organized religion into accepting bullshit from shitty people without questioning it.
It's a minority doing it, but they couldn't possibly win an election so they spend billions to grift the lower rungs of society.
Without the griftee's the grifters couldn't do what they do, and that's a wrap of US history 🤷
Religion is the biggest con job of all time, and those at the top are wealthy as fuck, most of the rubes believing that shit get nothing out of it except feeling like they picked the right one.
Humanity it seems has some ingrained switch to believe bullshit as long as you think "you're in the in crowd"
MAGA is no different, in fact there is a lot of overlap, because if you can believe a dude walked on water because some 1000x copied and altered book said so, you'll believe pretty much any bullshit modern scheisters will come up with.