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The essence of right-wing authoritarianism is the idea that some people deserve what they get. This is deeply seeped into American culture; anywhere from the idea that disabled people became so from their own carelessness to the idea that it’s okay to laugh at people who died due to their own stupid decisions, aka the ‘natural selection’ jokes. People who are struggling in some way are so because of their own cluelessness or evil nature, and that means they deserve it, and that means we must turn a blind eye to their suffering, or if not, actively find joy in it…. this is a dominant idea in America.
The woman at the small boutique says she can’t afford to lose money “in this economy.” The nurse at the doctor’s office for my mom’s back complains that they’re in need of workers and that “everyone’s complaining about money, but no one wants to work!” The local McDonald’s line barely moves because there are barely any workers. I see a headline that says there’s an abnormally high amount of unhoused people in California, as if there’s a “normal” amount of unhoused people there can be. My sister wants a new house but can’t buy one because it’s all so expensive. A Wendy’s worker online complains about how everything is going up in price except their wages. All this is happening around me and I’m powerless to stop it. I don’t want to act like I have the secret that others are unable to see, but I can’t help but think everyone has been brainwashed until thinking we have to live like this. There just has to be a recession every ten years, there just has to be constantly changing gas prices, there just has to be bad seasons for buying a house. We have to deal with this as the price of freedom, we have no other choice. But I think we do have another choice, and I think even if there’s not answers to every question about how this ‘other choice’ would work, we have to try. We can’t live like this anymore. We just can’t. People are being killed by this.
What people call stupid American laws:
-It’s illegal to drive a camel on a road in Nevada 🤣
-Must be 18 to play pinball in South Carolina 😳
-It’s BANNED to sleep naked in Minnesota?? 😦
Real stupid American laws:
-There are no federal days off for voting
-Corporations are allowed to charge tons of money for life saving medicine such as insulin
-Disabled people can lose their being on disability because they got married
-Some people are denied life-saving abortions
It’s pretty obvious to me why right-wing extremism is so much more commonly violent than left-wing extremism, and it’s because their ideology is inherently violent… unlike left-wing ones. The problem is not simply the fact they’re extreme- extreme solutions are rational to extreme problems like we have now. The problem is the fact that they’re right-wing.
Famous psychology experiments will show clearly how teaching people blind obedience to authority and placing them in a society which emphasizes hierarchy in all aspects of life makes people let awful things happen to other people or just do awful things themselves, and the popular takeaway in public consciousness is ‘humanity is evil and we should just let global warming kill everyone and never try to fix any problems’