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Simple material effect.

People are shaped by the interrest of the social and material class they are part of. And the evil people are always the one in power and have the money, so they act in the interest of their class and do things that help themselves.

Fucking Marx wrote about this quite a while ago, now his predictions just manifest more visibly, but the cultural and material forces have always been at play. Now we just reached a breaking point as a planet and population, so the underlying systems start to break too and the people on top do everything to stay in power, including ditching reality altogether.

People have it tough and I think they have gotten full of hate and greed. Evil people feed on hate and greed.

We have a global economic system that encourages and rewards evil. More and more countries have political systems that do the same. Good people would rather help others and make the world a better place, and this prevents them from attaining power. It would probably require doing some evil to remove the evil people from power.

That's, ironically, how the white supremacists felt all these years lol

• The rich take a larger and larger slice of the wealth pie
• Use the money to propagandize to the now more precarious and vulnerable public to bolster their position
• Rinse and repeat

There's a season for everything, even for evil, but it won't last forever.

Because evil people control all the media

Because it is.

Wealth inequality caused by all the things mentioned here and more. It allows the wealthy to control narrative that is fed to the masses, control the amount of free time people have to think and control how much pressure is placed on your lives.

The free thinking world is gone.

But the '3 meals away from a revolution' is always true and the rich will always get more greedy. When everyone no longer has the ability to free themselves, that's when a lot of heads will roll.

So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.

evil people have always been there, but we're in an era of many crisis's, it was easier to ignore it when it didn't personally effect you. Now i imagine in the next 10-20 years it'll start effecting everyone in ways we've yet to imagine. But I don't think its the end of the world or anything just that its probably time we start considering what we want our futures to look like and start making plans to survive or fight.

Because they're evil. Rather, they don't place the same constraints on themselves that a good person places on themselves.

the hard answer: the voting populace is the single stupidest form of combined intelligence to ever exist, im pretty sure 3 children under the age of 7 in a room would have a higher average IQ than any state in america when measuring the voting populace.

Voting is a joke. People don't take it seriously, it's all vibes based, and those vibes are horrendously unreliable and meaningless.

the soft answer: it is, for now. It will change, just give it time. It's inevitable.

Trust. In order for good people to achieve something they need to work together and trust each other. Bad people lie and deceive with no remorse which basically gives them the advantage in securing higher seats. Being able to lie with a straight face gives you many advantages if what you seek is personal gain, hence a lot of people keep doing it and that seems to be the goal.

Humans are not perfect, they evolved into what they are now very very slowly. Technology surpassed that and we've learned how to manipulate the flaws in humans to control the actions of the masses. The sad part is it isn't even difficult, it's very easy to convince people to act against their interests if you get them to associate the desired action with their baser instincts: sex, resources, security.

When a flaw can be exploited, we exploit it. But exploiting it is evil.

You can chalk it up to humans being inherently evil, but it's just difficult to fight against our inherent flaws, against the animal instincts which drive us and especially the less educated.

Because they are.