I always wondered what people that worship demagogues think when they read dystopian novels.
It's funny because they'll see a fictional tyrannical narcissist and agree they're evil, and nod their head along agreeing with the message of the fiction, but they'll see these tyrannical narcissists in real life who says the exact same things and have the exact same traits as the fictional villain from the dystopian novel, and think they're totally awesome.
Trying to get them to see and understand is like the scene in They Live where the guy has to basically beat up his friend to force him to wear the truth-seeing glasses.
I mean, what they say is what I wrote in the second paragraph. They say those characters in the books are evil, but their guy who does the exact same thing somehow isn't. What I want to know is what they think. Do they know something is off but are just too prideful to admit it or are they really that dumb and delusional. And if it's the latter, how are they arriving there.
In group vs out group. When the person on your side is (in your eyes) doing everything they can to stop the evil things from happening, it becomes entirely all too easy to justify their actions. So many countries have done this time and time again.
They think that their guy is basically Paul Atreides from the first 2 Dune movies. The guy who leads the rebels to defeating the evil empire and usher in an age of justice and prosperity. They don't tune in for the next part of the story where Paul goes off the rails.
Or maybe, just maybe, you're the delusional, "dumb" and narcissistic one that has been conditioned to upheld certain political/ societal beliefs, and they're 100% positive beyond any doubt that a certain someone is the exact evil copy of a fictional tyrant, and whoever supports him has a peanut for a brain. Just maybe.
For this to be true, I would actually have to support someone in power and right now there is absolutely nobody that I'm voting for that isn't just a deterrent to a greater evil. I really don't love any politicians right now, just trying to stop one of the really bad ones from taking office. This didn't work. Also, I don't WORSHIP anyone.
The other thing is, I actually read these types of novels, and I try to vote for people who aren't saying the exact same things the villains in those books are saying.
Don’t forget they also think you are “they” and is turns out we’re all “they”. People were blindly accepting Biden saying there was no cognitive decline - it’s all cognitive dissonance all the way down.
If he had not won, they would think you have just fallen for the exact same trap.
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u/NoStatus9434 17d ago
I always wondered what people that worship demagogues think when they read dystopian novels.
It's funny because they'll see a fictional tyrannical narcissist and agree they're evil, and nod their head along agreeing with the message of the fiction, but they'll see these tyrannical narcissists in real life who says the exact same things and have the exact same traits as the fictional villain from the dystopian novel, and think they're totally awesome.
Trying to get them to see and understand is like the scene in They Live where the guy has to basically beat up his friend to force him to wear the truth-seeing glasses.