Yeah, I think it’s a mistake to imagine that these are good people who just need a little love. There are literally hundreds of millions of people who aren’t getting enough love for proper human flourishing and it’s not like that turned them all into fascists. The kind of evil exhibited by these people must be attributed to a fundamental enjoyment of the suffering of others.
krashmo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well statistically about 30% of people worldwide don’t mind fascism so that’s hundreds of millions of people too. I’m not sure I’d be willing to say a lack of loving relationships is the primary cause of that but I doubt solving that problem would hurt.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Where are you getting that statistic from?
smayonak@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There are different studies which show a shockingly high percent of the population are fools but the most compelling is the one by Cambridge Analytica which found a population cluster in Facebook’s massive amount of user data. They called this the average cluster.
The Republicans targeted this group in the 2016 election.
krashmo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t recall if this is where I originally heard it but it gives you a place to start: pewresearch.org/…/who-likes-authoritarianism-and-…