We live in a day and age in which many European nations, as well as the United States of America, appear to have taken a turn to the right wing and thus a turning away from their previous liberal attitudes of inclusion and of thereby judging the other based upon the content of their character. Instead, there is a drive to return to the days of old, in which the favored race and creed were clearly superior to all others, and thereby the prevailing surface traits of its favored inhabitants were of more importance than the content of anyone else’s character.
Anytime that a given nation turns its back upon fairness, inclusion, and the consideration of the other, there is a reason – in which the reason why we see this at the present time really comes down to fear. The fear of loss, and specifically the fear of the loss of status, so that those who are not at the premier level of success, wealth, and attainment are fearful. These then primarily represent the people that have been historically the favored race, of which, they therefore cannot countenance that this status is inappropriately and somehow under assault, by what they perceive to be, mainly immigrants, both licit and illicit, who are not only too many in number, but have too many of their kind who are successful despite the handicaps so imposed upon them, thereby leaving far too many of the favored race believing that their once unassailable status will be no more.
Those then that fear that they will lose their favoritism and thereby will have to compete on a field that is ever coming more level, have a couple of basic choices, which is to either improve their own character and to thereby put forth the incumbent effort to develop the accouterments of personal success, or to turn to a certain special and favored personage as well as the organizations behind that despotic leader which will let them to know that things could be back to where they once were, if they only were to support wholeheartedly all those that displayed an authoritarian fist and further are willing to back that up by using such.
The bottom line is that way too many people who have historically been favored do not desire to compete, nor do they desire to play fair, but rather they just want things to be the way that they were before, in which they were the masters, and all others, with a few notable exceptions, were born to essentially serve them. Indeed, this type of siren song appeals to many a person of the favored race, especially when they know for a certainty that their situation is not going to improve, unless they continue to get favorable treatment, undeserved or not.
Indeed, the fear factor of losing face, of losing status, of losing one’s position in life, of losing the respect of one’s peers, forces the hand of many a person, and makes them to believe that everything can be great again, if those that have historically been oppressed and exploited, would only return to their place, and then all will be well.