This is what happens when we dont have basic rights like universal healthcare or stable jobs. And the “lesser evil” political party has nothing to offer besides vague phony optimism.
More and more people are being pushed to the fringe right due to the failures of capitalism.
We need better.
I don’t think it’s a bad theory, although maybe there’s some recency bias in bringing up current US electoral politics to try to explain something much more general. Reactionary antisocial behavior is a consequence of alienation, i.e. people are pushed to the fringes because of capitalism’s failure to maintain the social bonds that stops people from becoming misanthropic edgelords like OOP.
Some people really want to moralize and get defensive when materialist explanations are given.
We need to understand what causes fascists to exist if we want to eradicate them after all, and just believing they’re an eternal evil of the universe doesn’t help that. It’s not about whether they are good or bad, we are going to have to deal with them they stand in our way, and we want to study the phenomena and conditions of their absurd existence so we can prevent future fascists from developing once we take power.
Plus I think socialized medicine and healthcare would help a lot of problems fix themselves. Lets be real, a lot of these people are just sick in the head qnd desperately need help they probably cant afford. Im sure some of them would refuse but just having free access to that help would definitely have a positive long term impact.
Agreed, and alongside a whole host of other issues the most glaring ones are a colonial mentality/indoctrination, many over their whole life and even perhaps generations back. In truth as a PoC who came from a very mentally colonized family, a large chunk of PoC (of all communities) in the west, as well as across the world, also could use some serious help in this regard too.
The medicine/healthcare they need is re-education, basically psychiatric help. Whether they will or can get it is another matter, and the extent of damage they will do in the meantime is immense.