"...can't grasp their true nature,
their real aspirations and the feeling – the certainty!
– that what they want for themselves will always be more
than what they want for other people...
That's why they concentrate so much on feelings and injuries,
on naming, on correctness, because they don't have the stomach for the inequality they depend on.
"...in Kansas or Illinois people vote against their own interests
because they detest a culture that sees them as needy,
they hate caring elites who like to tell them what is good for them. In the modern world...people don't mind being exploited so long as they can choose it themselves."
– excerpted from Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan, page 474. My emphasis.
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Evil triumphs with the help of the hypocrisy of the comfortable.
This is why Hitler was so successful.
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