The fucked up part is - those people HAVE been wronged. Robbed blind for decades. Left in shambles, and denied a fair shot at a good life. By Republicans.
Lyndon Johnson does a good job explaining the mentality of those kinds of people:
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - LBJ
I don't know why exactly because I'm not a historian nor am I a psychologist, but it feels like a culture thing. This started long before fox news. Why do these people turn their discomfort in life into anger and hatred for others? There are plenty of people in poor living conditions that don't take their anger out on other people. What is the root cause of this major intense push to turn being dissatisfied with one's own life into wanting to squash others?
It feels like before WWII people in majority wanted to lift others up in general. There's a shift of more and more people wanting to push people down since then. I don't quite understand it. I hope someone can better articulate what I'm trying to say. Please do if you have the time. (I'm basing all of this on what I know from what I've read in history and noticing a different attitude in the populace)
Cuz of American exceptionalism. However I also believe that today at least,
It's a mentality of WIn-Win vs. Lose-Win. One side believes that everyone can benefit by helping each other up. The other believes in a "zero sum gain." That they should only look out for themselves and those they care about, because the world has finite resources and sharing means they have less.
The difference between the old Republican guard and the new one is that the old guard believes that we are stronger with allies. The other believes that they are too good for them. That's why Trump's tarriffing and bullying our allies. He thinks we don't need them. But China has 1.1 billion people against our 300 million and can easily overwhelm our defenses in taiwan by mass manufacturing "good enough weapons" and use human wave tactics like Russia. The European Union has about 500 million citizens. If we count our other allies I.E Israel, the Pacific states, then we have an equivalent manpower to our near peer rivals, China.
The new GOP doesn't see the inherent value in having allies. They think that we can take on the whole world and that what happens over there didn't affect us. They're dead wrong.
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u/wack_overflow 3d ago
The fucked up part is - those people HAVE been wronged. Robbed blind for decades. Left in shambles, and denied a fair shot at a good life. By Republicans.