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Any time you're told that the weak and vulnerable are responsible for how bad things are, rather than the rich and powerful, you're being lied to (sopuli.xyz)
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[-] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Well, yeah.

It's not the powerless that made things how they are, it's the powerful that shape the world.

It's also worth noting that when you're powerful but don't have the votes it takes to do a thing you want, the shortest path to getting those votes is unifying people around being mad at some sort of scapegoat.

This is why fascism looks the way it does

  • it emerges from a democracy in some sort of crisis

  • it's always that elites (a voting minority of powerful interests) need political support

  • the way they always get it is by focusing anger on a scapegoat, with promises to punish them

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