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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
I've run into two people this week (unfortunately one of them a company higher up) who are heavily pro-Russian. And when I questioned them on it, they turn out to be very right wing.
How is this stupidity even happening?
When did Texas-style conservative right wing people become Pro-Putin, Pro-KGB, Pro-Stalin, Pro-Soviet, Pro-Bring back the Supreme Soviet structure, wanks?
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Russia's current brand of, and probably all, fascist ideology fundamentally needs an outgroup that it can blame for all of society's woes on and that the masses can hate. This frees them from actually having to offer anything in the way of improvements to society.
Southern ultra-right wing regressives, with their pre-existing racial and religious prejudices, were easy targets to coop into this type of thinking. To paraphrase some of the Trump electorate sentiment from the past, "he says it like it is, and hurts the right people"