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[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Two core reasons:

  1. Demonization. They need someone to demonize, that distracts voters and the general populace away from their own misdeeds, and lack of functional policy. If you're too busy getting angry at the trans people, you won't strike against the Billionaires.
  2. Insecurity. If the world isn't actually as simple as you thought, your entire ideology is based on putting people into given labels and boxes to make your life easier, idealizing a nonexistent past, etc, then the world changing in any non-standard way is seen as something to be extremely afraid of. This is also what drives their concerns over immigrants ("replacing" their community's racial dynamic), homeless people ("not wanting to work" like they did), climate change (this couldn't possibly happen because then the industries and consumption you had your whole life would have to change), progressive education and scientific growth (learning new things about how what we used to think was wrong), etc. It's all rooted in just wanting things to stay the same.