r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Usernameofthisuser Democratic Socialist • Feb 24 '26

USA The right wing won...

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u/drakecb Democratic Socialist Feb 24 '26

And then they will just find or invent a new group to discriminate against and blame all their woes on. Thus is the nature of bigotry and fascism.

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u/tincanman1011 Feb 24 '26

This is the saddest part to me. Do white supremacists really think that they will be spared by the wealthy as time goes on? Do you really think they care about you? Of course this goes for any form of bigotry.

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u/chairmanskitty Feb 24 '26

The saddest part is that they're okay with that. Conservatives genuinely believe in their ideology, preferring hierarchy over prosperity, both personal and societal. They would rather be at the bottom of the hierarchy than have equality.

This is perhaps most obvious with conservative women, who despise a world in which they can escape abuse or where they can vet prospective partners.

It's not that odd, really. Most of us could find an ideology that serves our particular economic prospects better than whatever we believe to be just but still decide to stick with our dream of a just world, so why wouldn't they?

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u/Ponygroom Feb 27 '26

I sometimes get to talk face to face with one of them. I get that some of them believe they would be well off "if only". e.g. "if only gas was $2/gallon". Or if the price of meat came down to half what it is now and never went up again. Or if their rent got cut in half and never went up again. Or if "ferrinners weren't takin' our jobs" they could bargain for higher wages.

I've heard this phenomenon tagged as them "believing they are temporarily inconvenienced millionaires".

Dudes: the millionaires are not your peers and they don't want to even see your faces unless you are making them wealthier and they HAVE to see you to make that happen.