One of the ways to stir up hatred and resentment is to make people feel they’re entitled to something that some external group (i.e. an outgroup) is taking away from them, or depriving them of. One of the places we see this hatred and resentment flare up today is with jobs.

Free Black People and Women

In the decades after black people gained freedom in the U.S. (including after moving), people complained about the job market being affected by this. When women (after industrial revolution) began entering the workforce, some men complained about “men’s jobs being taken away”.

The Dark and Evil Root of Entitlement Underneath It

Underlying this resentment and grumbling was a (quite immoral) sense of entitlement to certain opportunities.

Underlying this resentment was also a desire to exclude others (whoever that outgroup may be) from those opportunities. This is, in my opinion, a dark emotion, rising from the evil part of human nature.

The Nazis, early on, in 1933, enacted a law that excluded Jewish people from various professional jobs. One could assume that there was a sense of racial entitlement to those jobs associated with that early Nazi act.

People moving between countries

We see this manifest most today with people moving between countries.

There is, among some people, a desire to exclude other people from the opportunities they have.

There is, among some people, a desire to resent, hate, and blame, other people, simply for working hard and trying to make a living.

Often unspoken (although quite often spoken under anonymity) there is an ugly and horrid racial angle to it.

Conservatives stirring up fear, hate, entitlement-resentment, externalizing-victimization, etc.

Conservatives have become masters of the art of making people hate, of making people feel resentment (often arising from entitlement), of making people fear, etc. Sometimes all of these are mashed up and interlinked together.

In the context of welfare

You can see this in welfare, for example. Conservatives have spun up this narrative about most welfare recipients being abusers and not indigent people actually in need. Conservatives will zoom in and focus on a few example stories of people abusing some aspect of the aspect of welfare, and dishonestly generalize and misrepresent this as being the norm. They do this to breed a resentment towards welfare and welfare users.

Next, conservatives will tell everyone that their tax money is going into funding the “lavish lives” of these welfare users. Their goal here is to trigger emotions around entitlement, and property/theft. They use this tactic to make people feel like their money is being stolen by welfare users.

(In reality, under the progressive tax system in most countries, most of the tax burden fall on high-income people. Basically, high-income people fund most of the welfare system. Middle income people often get a lot in benefits (whether that’s through retirement / old-age support, healthcare, education various public services, etc) that might approximate what they pay in taxes, while lower income people get more in benefits than they contribute. In the U.S., the conservative movement has for years received significant funding from extremely wealthy people. This funding in the U.S. has sponsored pushing this dishonest and deceptive narrative about welfare, among many other things.)

The darkness of it all

Ultimately, the emotion being stirred by conservatives in people is quite dark, and evil.

The fear and resentment conservatives stir up in the populace, often turns into unbridled hate, which later morphs into rage. (We can often even hear this rage in the voices of some conservative Americans, and sometimes even directed towards imaginary enemies.)

While conservatives in the U.S. have used this to win elections, the spiritual corruption and wreckage all of this stuff caused has been a sigh to behold, unspeakably harmful, and it continues to bleed out, and this darkness has often spread onto other countries through the internet.

I mentioned this dark line of thinking involving jobs, because sometimes it can extend to much more things, and a much larger scope of hatred and self-victimization. We see this with Jewish people and the Nazis, who placed blamed on innocent Jews for a myriad of things. This hatred culminated in The Holocaust, i.e. in genocidal mass murder.

(A note to anyone unaware: the Nazis were conservatives. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were granted dictatorial power by the Reichstag by the combined vote of three conservative parties–the Nazis, the DNVP, and Zentrum. The Nazis were not socialists–this was a deceptive/dishonest marketing term, which the SDP and other actual socialists denounced –and pointed out that the Nazis were just traditional conservatives pretending to be socialists, and before they were elected.)

In general, conservatives have been honing their efforts at encouraging people to see themselves as victims, and externalize their problems onto various outgroups, even if the connection to the outgroup (or the blame being placed on the outgroup) is tenuous or absurd at best.

We see this darkness most today, when it comes to people moving between countries, people who are working a job like anyone else and living life. These people are resented and hated for having the opportunity. There is fear of job opportunities being taken away (since most people don’t understand that the lump of labour fallacy). The best way to explain the lump of labor fallacy is to look at any place that has seen dramatic population growth due to immigration, and ask whether that place experienced unemployment on a massive scale (answer: it did not). People are encouraged to see themselves as victims, and to blame others, whoever that outgroup may be.

If there’s a racial distinction to the immigrants (see this in how Ukrainian immigrants were treated), they are encouraged by these dark spiritual forces to focus on it, and to stir up further hate and resentment around it.

Noah in an unrighteous world

Noah was a righteous man in an unrighteous and evil world. He could see the evil and wickedness, which most people, deep it, could not perceive.

Similarly, this particular evil is not something people can today see clearly.

Because this particular form of entitlement has become so common, people don’t see the sin in it anymore.