Even more so if it hurts the ones they hate even more. If they lose their job but see five children deported, they probably see it as a win.
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It's the same playbook as foreign sanctions elsewhere.
The Assads, Kims, and Putins of the world can get their people to rally into a "bunker mentality" which helps prop up their regimes as a grand and noble struggle.
Trump has brought the same energy home. And history shows you can milk it for decades or generations even before something essential craxks.
To add, many Nazis were unrepentant.
And life for most Germans turned shitty really fast, with wages dropping to depression levels with a lot more work hours.
Struggle is a key part of propaganda and cult of personality, all for the "better good". And if they already are this far, they will keep going
... until THEY lose their job to the Trumpcession.
Difference is that Trump Term 1 didn't really impose a cost on them directly. And so far, the idea of hardship sounds alright.
But when they are dumped to the curb at age 66 with social security cuts, half the 401k they thought they had, and even Walmart ain't hiring...
Social identity is key to survival, so it's no surprise how resistant people are.
An old mentor of mine at UCLA did a study where they put people in an fMRI machine and monitored brain function when feeling rejected during a digital game of catch. When the other two "players" (NPCs) started only tossing between each other and excluding the participant, the part of the brain responsible for physical pain triggered.
Not being rejected from others around you is so important to human survival that evolution hardwired our brain to feel pain at the slightest hint of being rejected. Other experiments found similar, we forego an awful lot to stay in good graces with our society.
They need to be eaten by the leopards...
i.e. hardship
The resistance has arrived!
Yes, but the number of Trump supporters is dwindling.
They've been saying that since Cheeto ran for office the second time and look where we are. 🙄
We heading to the bad place. Im ok though, I realize in many ways I hit a sweet spot in history and location. Kinda like riding out the wave of progress into the dumpster.
This is true of USA in general though. The state is always attacking people inside and outside its "borders". But people still genuflect, sing the anthem, "defend the constitution", etc. It's not just "social identity". It's a nationalist cult.
The blame can always be shifted. Dying of diabetes because your Medicaid got cut? That’s actually the fault of that DEIgger president who broke healthcare.
But that's communism!