padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
people who feel hopeless in their current circumstances are more open to authoritarian rule that promises to change those circumstances for the betterwhy should a particular set of circumstances give rise to fascism as opposed to somehting else?
they're more open to the idea of hearing that other people are to blame for their problems, and less likely to protest the scapegoating, abuse, etc of those people