
To beat Trump, we need to know why Americans keep voting for him. Psychologists may have the answer | George Monbiot
US culture is an incubator of ‘extrinsic values’. Nobody embodies them like the Republican front runner, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
I think this opinion is worth a read and accurate. From the content I think you can see why I agree.
I would only add that in my opinion, the author’s use of the term extrinsic equates to the gualities produced by self hate.
At any rate, the important point to me is that the cause of support for Trump is not an inevitable dark manifestation of some inner flaw in our nature but is inculcated by the needs to survive a brutal culture systemically created. Making life better for people generally, will actually change how people act.
This realization that the future can get better is what I would call the proper application of the term ‘woke’.
Have a care to whom you bring hope to, however, because those who have surrendered to hopelessness do not like being reminded of that fact. They harbor deep resentment.