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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Enjoying the trickle down of piss? This is what you wanted

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bruh they were and still are brainwashed by so much anticommunist propaganda. They had to survive in those material conditions, and if they made it they had to buy into the lie of American Exceptionalism for their prosperity and not the Dollar becoming the worlds reserve currency and propping up European Social Democracy, Dictators, and Kings. They reaped benefits they were actively being kept in the dark about, if they are waking up cause piss is tricking down their face, i will still celebrate them waking up. We need all the people we can to wake up and realize how the elite have stolen from the working class and are only taking more and more as we continue to kill our planet to give them more wealth...

[–] amiuhle@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Cognitive dissonance is really strong if you have to question the way you were living your whole life when questioning the current situation. This makes those people far more likely to be easy prey for far-right propaganda than to be waking up, I'm afraid.