Most CHUDs didn’t go to underfunded intercity schools with moldy textbooks. They went to well funded suburban middle class schools which, yeah are still US public schools, but still provide better educational opportunities than what most people in the world have.
CHUD aren’t fascists because their social studies teacher was underpaid, they’re fascists because fascism speaks to them and their values. They are fascists at the end of the day because they like being fascists.
And further more, unless you embrace full hard determinism, you have to view these people as culpable to some extend for the awful politics they support. Yeah, none are immune to propaganda, we are shaped by are culture yadda yadda. But I have to think humans have some capacity of will to rise above their social conditioning, if they’re willing didn’t society would never evolve or change for the better.
I mean I get your point, but I think calling it “cope” is a bit of a stretch. The way modern education is structured does not encourage the development of critical thinking or empathy.
in fact the christian right has been actively sabotaging that for hundreds of years, as they lost the monopoly on literacy, and very acutely in the US for several decades.
Well that I blame on me being Internet brainrotted. Which I recognize is largely my fault before anyone calls me out.
I think that too, while you should take action against it, needs to be understood as a result of the relationship between you and your conditions. What drove you to be so online? What conditioning by your culture left you vulnerable to taking silly internet logic too seriously?
No need to tell me, of course, I just mean to say that if we only attribute things to personal failings we don’t have any functional solution for fixing them. We need to analyze them in terms of not just ourselves but our conditions because changing our conditions is a much more reliable way to change ourselves than just going “be better”.