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Originally Posted by FlameOn
Far right politics have always stoked external fears to gain power and votes. It really doesn't matter what the topic is, but for a segment of the population anything said with loud angry noises by their leaders will be their truth. Those type of people are against "socialism", despite not understanding what that means and how it benefits them, and constantly hold up the "Bible" and the "Constitution" whenever it's convenient, despite likely never having read either of them.
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In fairness, fear-based political campaigns aren't exclusively the purview of the far right, or even the right generally. Hell, the Democrats are campaigning in large part on fear in this election, just as they did in 2020. It's just that in this particular case quite a few of those fears are totally justified.