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The appeal is "I will hurt the people you don't like".
by twisteriffic 2y ago
The appeal is "I will hurt the people you don't like".
- mindslight 2y agoTFW you realize that disappearing grad students off the street for having said something politically incorrect will likely be the bulk of their action on immigration.
- ratg13 2y agoI feel it’s more the idea of “misery loves company” playing out on a grand scale. The wealth gap in America has pushed a larger amount of the population into ever tightening economic situations.. the psychological aspect of this brings people to want other people to feel suffering if they are. Unfortunately the population is being fed fake enemies by the people in leadership positions.
- kelseyfrog 2y agoAnd this feels good to some people? I don't get it. Normally I feel bad when people get hurt.
- cmurf 2y agoSchadenfreude.
- twisteriffic 2y agoI don't get it either, but I haven't found any other explanation that fits as well.
- intended 2y agoThey feel that Dems, liberals, scientists, elites, etc. have hurt them. They are tearing down what they see as left power and cultural centers. It’s natural to respond to threats, and so they are.
- ethbr1 2y agoStep 1. Identify the political obstacles in your way. Step 2. Use conservative media to make people hate those things. Step 3. Get elected on the basis of manufactured hate. Step 4. Get rid of your political obstacles. Since the Southern Strategy, American conservativism has been encouraging and weaponizing hate for votes. And since the gutting and exiling of mainstream conservatives ~2019+, it's fair to say they're now primarily a party of hate. (Both in their elected officials and supporters) It isn't about actual slights against conservatives by liberals -- at this point those are only rhetorical cover for doing what they want to politically.