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Shit's fucked, yo. So let's vote for the kind of people that make everything worse. I will never understand this kind of mindset.
Especially since the populists thrive on it which gives them exactly zero incentive to improve things.
Some people need an answer that's easy and quick. That answer is also always wrong but by then they stopped thinking anyway and are hooked on easy and quick.
"The rich stole all your money" is also an easy answer and much closer to reality. People who fall for right wing bullshit do so because it panders to their hate and resentment.
similarly, conspiracy cranks get all up in arms about some shady group of "elites" that somehow aren't just.. billionaires and top-level politicians..
they have an actual legitimate conspiracy in front of them, presented on a fucking silver platter, and yet they completely ignore that and instead make shit up that makes no fucking sense.
People voting for populists are much more likely to see the scapegoats their electees talk about in their life than an actual billionaire that exploited them, though. And there's the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" narrative we've been forced upon, too.
Its called for voting for change...
Regular peeson doesn't care about ideology. They vote for the guy who hasn't fucked them recently.
And why are they so concerned about something that is, despite the obvious problems, a net positive for any developed society?
All the available empirical evidence that people like you so studiously ignore.
Try this
https://www.google.com/search?q=benefits%20of%20immigration
What does the second line say?
Those 2 things are not mutually exclusive. You are the one who leapt to "they took our jobs" because you are a racist with below average reading comprehension.