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Those 40% either never heard of this or already dismissed it as fabricated. These people don't see the same news as you.
Don't discount the significant percentage of Americans that are perfectly aware of this and approve of it.
The 40% think they are in the fascist in-group. Many are finding out now they are actually in the out-group.
Funny thing about that. Happens to all the in-groups at some point, at all levels.
Ask Caesar if he was in the in-group.
Exactly. That and the "they came for us" poem is too Nazi/Germany coded for a lot of folks, and they fail to see how it applies.
I'll go as far as to say that 40% of everyone has never been bullied, or did/does try to avoid it by conforming.
This was a lesson I learned at age 9. You get bullied for whatever reason, so you try and change your behavior on the basis of the bullying. Hair, clothes, accent, likes, dislikes, whatever. The following week, the reason you get bullied changes or you outright get bullied for changing. Why? It's about power, exercising that power, and abusing others; the bully has a bottomless pit somewhere in their psychology and abuse makes them feel better about it. It was never about the stated reason. You can never make this stop by accommodation, and by all accounts, can only make things worse.
The thing is, it's really impossible to come to a logical conclusion of what the word "significant" represents in your reply. What does a "significant percentage" mean to you?
I'm not saying that there aren't some Americans out there with really shitty views, but how do you actually decide what percentage of the population they are? What's the end result of your statement here? What's the point of you making this comment here?
Idk, I'm just exhausted by these types of statements in general. These "don't forget that a lot of people are terrible!" suggestions from the sidelines. These "why are you upset, it's not surprising!" statements... as if there's any insight here.
I'm fucking frustrated too. I just think that the first step to becoming evil or indifferent to evil is believing that that's just how most people are.
For me at least, I'm wanting to focus our efforts beyond the goal of simply educating the unaware. A huge amount of effort over the last 8+ years has been in "awareness". That if we simply made people aware of the bad stuff, that they'd correctly see it as bad and would want to take action.
It's an entirely different problem we face when people are aware of the bad stuff and either don't care or actively support it. The 'solution' can't simply be awareness campaigns and the hope that people will react the way we want them to. We have to do something actually effective.
It is the vast majority of the 30% of the US population that voted for Trump. None of what he is doing today is a surprise, this is what he said he was going to do and it's what they wanted.
This is it. There are certainly some that support it but most just deny outright the possibility that it's real. We've fallen so far so fast that they just refuse to believe it.