Materially, it makes little sense for blue-collar workers to vote for Modi, Orban, or Trump, a billionaire whose platform is to cut taxes for the rich. Hitler and Mussolini had their share of support from the poor too.
What are some of the theories of why this happens?
I know scapegoating foreigners for poverty is part of it. Wilhelm Reich wrote The Mass Psychology of Fascism but I haven't read it.
In 2016 Trump was up there saying he was going to change things, make things better.
In 2016 Clinton was up there saying things were already great.
If your material conditions are in decline, your life opportunities are diminishing, who are you going to go with?
While I'm sure this correct and plays a part to a degree, I don't think this was such a major factor. Bernie Sanders was saying he would change things massively, and I know PAC nonsense, but he still didn't get enough support to get in.
To be fair, every single media outlet the average person would be exposed to had one viewpoint on Bernie, and it was "wow this guy is a crazy lefty, what has he accomplished, also this woman is telling you that she hates bernie because he's sexist"
Agreed, so it feels like that is a bigger factor in people's opinions.
MSNBC brought Harvey Weinstein on one of their shows, didn't introduce him as a Clinton surrogate and allowed him to say that Sanders is sexist without any pushback.
Bernie got 2/3 of the media coverage Hillary got and Trump was all the mainstream media could talk about. If you weren't listening to alt-media sources you probably never heard of Bernie Sanders until 2020.
I was thinking about folks only paying attention to the general election.
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