I have been trying to understand what makes people lean so much into the right wing but, I don’t really get it.
For example the hot topic of immigrants, the right wing is blaming it all on them. However, not every problem is because of immigrants and neither will these problems suddenly be solved when the people are out of said country.
The entire thing against LGBTQ and/ or people of color does not make sense either. Pushing minority groups away just brings more hatred and will lead to violence. Eventually it will even lead to their own misery once they do not fit their “ideal person”.
Same thing regards other religion than their own, it’ll lead to more hatred, violence and eventually their own misery once they do not fit their ideal kind of religion person.
Not only that but history has shown what political far-right does and from what I have read, it is nothing really good. I mean just look to 1930-1945 Germany and Italy with Mussolini.
The simple answer is people want simple answers. Propaganda, especially that of the right gives them. Sure the answers are wrong, but they are easy to digest in the moment.
People want answers, not necessarily simple ones (any answer can be sufficiently simplified), but answers. I mean, it’s not like “the rich are robbing you blind” is much more complicated than “immigrants and the gays are ruining this country;” it’s a question of which message is being amplified and being turned into real action.
The death of the American dream is a big one. Speaking very generally, men want a better future for themselves and are willing to follow whoever promises it, while women are being specifically targeted by conservatives an don’t want anything to do with that shit. The weakness of the American left means that the average person only sees establishment centrism and far-right fascism as options. Also people simply don’t know or think that much about the things you mentioned.
I have been trying to understand what makes people lean so much into the right wing but, I don’t really get it.
For example the hot topic of immigrants, the right wing is blaming it all on them. However, not every problem is because of immigrants and neither will these problems suddenly be solved when the people are out of said country.
The entire thing against LGBTQ and/ or people of color does not make sense either. Pushing minority groups away just brings more hatred and will lead to violence. Eventually it will even lead to their own misery once they do not fit their “ideal person”.
Same thing regards other religion than their own, it’ll lead to more hatred, violence and eventually their own misery once they do not fit their ideal kind of religion person.
Not only that but history has shown what political far-right does and from what I have read, it is nothing really good. I mean just look to 1930-1945 Germany and Italy with Mussolini.
anti-immigration has always been used a distraction from failure of internal policies, plus the backing with troll farms too.
The simple answer is people want simple answers. Propaganda, especially that of the right gives them. Sure the answers are wrong, but they are easy to digest in the moment.
People want answers, not necessarily simple ones (any answer can be sufficiently simplified), but answers. I mean, it’s not like “the rich are robbing you blind” is much more complicated than “immigrants and the gays are ruining this country;” it’s a question of which message is being amplified and being turned into real action.
It weaponizes self-esteem. Gives you someone to feel better than.
The death of the American dream is a big one. Speaking very generally, men want a better future for themselves and are willing to follow whoever promises it, while women are being specifically targeted by conservatives an don’t want anything to do with that shit. The weakness of the American left means that the average person only sees establishment centrism and far-right fascism as options. Also people simply don’t know or think that much about the things you mentioned.