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We have always known why Hitler rose to power, and we know why Trump was reelected. When people are economically depressed and a man comes to you and tells you “This isn’t your fault, I will persecute those who are responsible and personally make things better for you.” It’s human nature, out of fear, frustration, or desperation to grasp that hand. We as a people are not ready to trust the guy who says “This is our fault, and it will be hard, but we have to fix this together”. Take everything you know about Hitler and Trump and OUR world out of it, take out your reasoning and tap into your monkey brain for a second and simply ruminate on those two propositions. Which one would you rather be true? You can’t honestly tell me the latter. You may know the latter is true, but it would be so much easier on you if the first was true.
Like it or not, we aren’t as evolved as we like to think, and those of us who consider ourselves enlightened are vulnerable to our lizard brains at one point or another.
Truthfully, I wouldn't rather want anything but the truth. If the truth is hard work, that is what I want. Many things in life are "easier/cheaper/shortcuts, etc." that I actually do not want because it cheapens the quality of the thing.
I get that you are providing understanding of what it seems most of the voting American public wants, though.
Yeah but if your desire is “Give me the truth” and you don’t know which one the truth is, you can still have that innate preference for which one is the truth, and that preference can and will subconsciously bias you towards one answer. Maybe you are truly one of the enlightened and you have the will and ability to resist that bias, but many, most people don’t have that ability. And thinking, or wishing that most people did have that ability is just yet another example of an answer you prefer to be true.
Ok, but why not this but directed at hereditary wealth? obviously I guess mainly because it's harder because they have capital and power to fight back.
Because they (Trump and propagandists both foreign and domestic) used the migrants and immigrants as scapegoats, which is the same as we will be seeing as more and more European countries also fall to fascism. It's human nature that their followers blame the scapegoats as the cause of all their problems, and adore the wealthy as their betters who should be in charge.
I mean that was one of the attacks nazis used against jews, they claimed they had a lot of wealth and were the cause of most Germans problems.
The issue is Trump is wealthy and america is more willing to attack the underprivligied.
Who it’s directed at depends on who that man says are the ones responsible. When that man comes from hereditary wealth, that’s not who he points the stick at.