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Liz Webster: People have been brainwashed...

People have been brainwashed via their fears 👉 especially of migrants. Fear is one of the most powerful tools in politics. Keep telling people that migrants are the threat to their jobs, homes, culture, safety and country and eventually every political failure can be viewed through that lens. There is neuroscience behind why threat-based messaging works. Sustained stress and perceived threat can narrow attention and impair the flexible, deliberative thinking needed to weigh complicated evidence. And while everyone is looking at the migrant? They aren’t looking at who owns the wealth, why their wages stagnated, why housing wasn’t built, why public services were cut, or why Britain voluntarily erected barriers with its largest trading partner. That’s the political power of fear: Give people a visible enemy and they may stop looking for the actual causes of their insecurity.
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