• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caBanned from community
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    2 months ago

    I’d say extremists are gullible, which is why they inevitably come under the influence of authoritarians.

    Any idiot can say the various extremist slogans, and the “radicalized” will be swayed and show a lot of loyalty towards anyone that does so. You talk to any extremist, whether far right or far left, they don’t actually know how anything works, have no understanding of power dynamics. They just want to support anyone that says the same simple slogans they’ve been conditioned into repeating themselves.