• TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m not the one you asked, but I have a wild ass guess. It makes them feel important and/or powerful to have someone to look down on.

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      2 months ago

      It’s trivially easy to stoke that kind of fear and hate, manufacturing a loyal voter base that won’t look too closely at your policies, so the wealthy beneficiaries of GOP policy throw money at the narrative, the GOP runs with it, and suddenly a third of the population’s entire identity is built around the construction of a country-bankrupting wall to keep brown people ou- …pay no attention to the wall - now we’re banning musl- …migrant crime I call it Biden migrant crime… MS13…