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Perhaps it is because as children we need someone wise to to world to tell us what to do (like don't run into the street) some are more comfortable being bossed around by dictators than seeing anyone of lesser "status" be given some help toward equality, and often those who live like kings have the most trouble seeing anybody else (who is not working their will) get a leg up. Also I think all of us invest in different ways in the way things are and some are a lot more comfortable than others responding to change. Appeals to return to a largely fictional "good old days" , be it Roy Moore's misty utopian view of the US South prior to the Civil War, or a "Forever Reich" dictatorial "strong men"

promise a return of "Glory Days" that were really no more the gory days.

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