“Now look what you made me do” is the basic idea beneath the worst versions of all ideologies. It’s the version that attracts the worst partisans of that ideology.
People shopping for excuses to act in ways that the ideology constructs as reactions. Get-out-of-jail-free actions.
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Interesting that extreme ideologies often promote the idea that people are helpless pawns under the influence of the elites/mind control/brainwashing/social programming etc.
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Every X has a Reactionary X. Entire tomes are spent on the justifications e.g. St. Augustine and "Just War Theory."
This is in line with Aristotelian Means as well. Every X can be expressed as corrupted in its extremes.


