• michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    History is basically thousands of years of horrors during which people mostly believes their deity approved of all the awful things they did. It isnt the decline of the sacred that opened up this particular can of worms.

    If anything its a swing towards authoritianism as a reaction to a whole host of factors.

    • Changing demographics making white people and men afraid of losing their privileged position

    • Decline in relegion making the remaining faithful fearful of living in a world where most disagree with them

    • Apathy on the left due to left wing figures desire not to rock the boat and pwrsue real change

    • Centralization of media by a handful of people with interests more aligned with the right followed by decades of brainwashing

    • A characteristic figure to be the focus of the above

    • Rising inequality to put pressure on the common folks.

    Its weird to live in a world where the atheists overwhelmingly voted for normalcy and the devout voted 70% for fascism and still see godless people blamed for what you voted for.