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to be honest, at this point, I’m pretty sure the RWNJ’s don’t actually want to feel safe.

But yeah, the appropriate solution is to keep everybody safe, and educate the RWNJ’s. Though, if you were able to actually convince them of the truth, they’d probably run off to disenfranchise the next group.

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naught101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Maybe… My understanding (which is admittedly based on not much hard evidence) is that right wingism is more of a symptom than a cause, and that there are basically two or three drivers:

insecurity, particularly financial (e.g. shows up as “they’re taking our jobs”, or "fucking dole bludgers). I think greed is sometimes an excessive response to this.

trauma (e.g. I was treated terribly, and so I’m gonna treat the world terribly in turn).

power-hunger. (which is probably often a reaction to the other two, a need to control your world).

The insane far-right that are in power in the US, and the people surrounding them are most of the third category… I don’t think much of the base is in that category. But that group knows the triggers for people in the first two categories, and abuses the fuck out of them…

So yeah… I guess you’re right in that “convincing them of the truth” of any single issue isn’t going to solve anything. But I think aiming to solve those underlying insecurity and trauma issues might… Not that I have any quick-fix solutions…
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- FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  which, yeah, I don’t disagree with that. The problem is that they’re actively working against their own interests. Blatantly so. They don’t want to take programs that would give them financial security (or all the other forms of security that would give, like stable housing, access to good and healthy food, a good education, etc.).
  
  Some of it is that they’re primed to do that. But a lot of it is, they’re lashing out. They don’t want to feel safe, as an example, because then that removes their excuse for lashing out at people they want to harass and torture.
  
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  - naught101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Basically this:
    
    www.youtube.com/shorts/5BkRevFP5AE
    
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    FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Anyone else screaming “oh god! don’t twist! don’t twist!” ?
    
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