Far-right politics is about indulging people who are too lazy, selfish, or stupid to tolerate discomfort - the discomfort of learning, thinking, and thinking critically about how you interact with a complicated and uncertain world.
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Julian Sanchez
I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.
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It's actually:
"Hard times make engaged men. Engaged men create good times. Good times create bored men. Bored men create hard times."
Look at all the talk of McKinley, tariffs etc
Or even the status quo of pre Civil War with the elimination of the 14th amendment
https://a.co/d/2NsnF7C
finding oneself in either a revival tent drinking snake oil
finding oneself at a rally or CPAC walking past merch and getting “caught up” in the moment by either the salute or applauding the salute.
the propensity to believe was there beforehand
"[L]azy, selfish, or stupid" is incomplete. More than enough people don't fit those traits, but they are stressed, "low information", and really tired.
And while they vote stupid, it doesn't make them stupid. Good people, just ignorant.