• nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Many of them are looking for comfort in the otherwise precarious economic existence that out capitalist society has imposed on most of us. There are a lot more victims of bad circumstances that make them vulnerable to propaganda, than a lot of us want to admit. But there are also a lot of bigots, racists, and high scoring sociopaths in the mix.

    The right wing has embraced most of the latter group. And the not insignificant bamboozled group may be stuck for the reason Sagan described.

    I always took Sagan’s quote to be about religion, and that’s the tactic the Right has taken in their indoctrination too.

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      1 year ago

      There is, I suppose, a certain level of control when an “in group / out group” mentality has been created, and where failure to join the in group excludes you from it in essentially all aspects of your life. Or when the in group makes it clear that they are willing to perform acts of violence against the out group.

      Maybe that’s where we are now, but that’s not where we started.