Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot

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Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

He’s not wrong.

We’re still a bunch of greedy monkeys, and no amount of education or “proper parenting” can fully override the base biology all the time for every person.

As much as it would be great to be better, we aren’t even close.

Yeah, he raises a good point.

The question then becomes: how do we make the people who feel excluded (and hence want to burn everything down) feel included?

I thought facts didn’t care about their feelings.

How about helping the people who are genuinely being excluded?