cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47196787
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
I am pretty sure billionaires pay bot farms to defend them online so a lot of it is that and the rest are the maga idiots who couldnt stop supporting pedos if their life depended on it.
Gramsci's theory of hegemony helps explain this. The superstructure of a given society eminates the values and ideology of the ruling class. This often creates false consciousness.
Because they are idiots.
Not really.
Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits. As for those anti-imperialists who don’t participate in this festival of xenophobia — and here I include myself — we have our own elitist consolation: we accept the tragedy of masses of gullible sheeple falling for cunning propaganda because having overcome it flatters our own intelligence. The more we condemn society’s stupidity, the smarter we feel in comparison.
They're hoping to become one, someday, somehow.
They've been conned, and it's not their fault. It is up to the people who see things objectively to kindly guide their attention towards the class war, 's the only way to win it.