The Surprising Reason People Fall for Authoritarianism
For a short video it's a bit of a stemwinder in the sense that the punch is at the very end.
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But that has sadly happened for ages, through democracies and dictatorships.
It's a societal problem. Many societies tolerate abusive parenting, citing (you know what)
And others do not.,
Some abused children become authoritarians. Some become "business leaders" and some happily recover, though with scars.
I learned a great deal from "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" when I was. young, and it wasn't long after WWII
There's a fascist playbook that gets dusted off and replayed throughout history.
It's all about projecting one's weaknesses, failures and fears onto others, and about charlatans weaponizing that by attacking minority groups whom they blame for all ills.
Now, we have moved past Goebbels, in that an entire cult, about half the nation, in the most prosperous time ever, believes the lie that Joe Biden brought upon depression (I kid you not), and the lowliest of national status (which Trump himself brought on in a few months).
"Created misery". The Matrix.
I cannot comment on rough parenting because I was blessed with the most loving parents. Though, while I was growing up, the chief evil was racism, which was endemic, and I learned on my own how false it was, even living in the whitest of neighborhoods.
Ponder this:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220342881
America's Original Sin, by Jim Wallis
And this:
How Italians Became ‘White’
By Brent Staples Mr. Staples is a member of the (NYT) editorial board.
Oct. 12, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html
As the historian Matthew Frye Jacobson shows in his immigrant history “Whiteness of a Different Color,” the surge of newcomers engendered a national panic and led Americans to adopt a more restrictive, politicized view of how whiteness was to be allocated. Journalists, politicians, social scientists and immigration officials embraced the habit, separating ostensibly white Europeans into “races.” Some were designated “whiter” — and more worthy of citizenship — than others, while some were ranked as too close to blackness to be socially redeemable. The story of how Italian immigrants went from racialized pariah status in the 19th century to white Americans in good standing in the 20th offers a window onto the alchemy through which race is constructed in the United States, and how racial hierarchies can sometimes change.
Darker skinned southern Italians endured the penalties of blackness on both sides of the Atlantic. In Italy, Northerners had long held that Southerners — particularly Sicilians — were an “uncivilized” and racially inferior people, too obviously African to be part of Europe.
Racist dogma about Southern Italians found fertile soil in the United States. As the historian Jennifer Guglielmo writes, the newcomers encountered waves of books, magazines and newspapers that “bombarded Americans with images of Italians as racially suspect.” They were sometimes shut out of schools, movie houses and labor unions, or consigned to church pews set aside for black people. They were described in the press as “swarthy,” “kinky haired” members of a criminal race and derided in the streets with epithets like “dago,” “guinea” — a term of derision applied to enslaved Africans and their descendants — and more familiarly racist insults like “white nigger” and “nigger wop.”
‘Assassins by Nature’
A Black ‘Brute’ Lynched
RACISM AND INTOLERANCE ARE OUR "Original Sin" until we open our eyes. 👀
Fear and intolerance are ALWAYS weaponized to make people act against their own interests.
Slaves to fear and passion soon become slaves to the autocrat and their propaganda ministry,
For this, people voted for dictatorship (even if they didn't know it).
Yes, this drives SOME people to want to "control" a world they had zero control in as kids, but it's with the gleeful cooperation of "nice, normal kids" who weren't quite as abused, but who were fed lies.
Racism is taught. Hate is taught.
And we have the perfect school system for it.
The "average" "blame blacks", "blame immigrants", "blame women" home culture.
Amplified a trillion times by shit on the internet.
A recent post about a disheartened former Trump supporter ends like this:
"Still, things are better than if THAT WOMAN had won."
Well FUCK YOU JACK.
Society permits awful parents, foolish voters, idolatry ...
Check out who the current God is.
People who claim "religion" who don't see little children as the "eyes of God" are Satan.
BUT SOCIETY CREATES A FALSE GOD, power, money, abuse and blame.
They're just following the lab manual.
I rest my case.
I need a drink