So, turns out all the Maduro & Chavez haters helped bring Nazism back. Red Scare 3.0 baby!
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The thing is the state of the reactionary is fear. They know nothing but it.
Sure some of the top bourgeoisie live charmed lives after the fall of the USSR and don't really worry because they think they've got the whole thing locked down after winning the cold war. But not all of them feel that way, many of them exist in a state of anxiety when they see groups of workers together without management, when they see large protests. Deep in the back of their minds they know what they stand atop is unjust and that the only way to maintain it is via violence and propaganda and if those fail they know they're in trouble.
As to your average chud? They live in constant fear. Jumping at shadows. Brown people near them. Poor people, homeless. They clutch their guns tightly in their suburban castles fearful of tax increases, of people different from them, of not getting their way. Imaging studies have shown reactionaries have enlarged amygdalas, the part of the brain responsive to fear. Yes they're angry too, yes they play up the fear, but they're genuinely easily frightened people who weaponize that fear and twist it into rage rather than thought.
In a way one could say the necessity of surveillance like this is driven by fear. If they didn't worry they wouldn't pay for it. It exists because of fear.