The capacity for cruelty is something we are all born with. I will often say things, then figure out later why I said them.
We all need to FEEL the capacity for cruelty because IT IS THERE ALREADY. You can’t own it and control it if you refuse to admit it is even there.
Everything possible for any human is possible for any and all of us. If you nurture the conceit that YOU would have opposed the Nazi’s in the 30’s, it is most likely you would have been among their most ardent supporters. This applies to most of the people I see, who follow the flow, no matter how stupid it is, how wrong, or how destructive. It is simply fashionable, as of course it should be, to think of them as evil.
But Communism should be thought of as evil for the same reasons–really, the same reasons multiplied by ten or twenty–but it is not fashionable. So I feel on good ground saying that anybody unwilling NOW to denounce Communism and the atrocities that followed it everywhere, very certainly would have been excellent Hitler Youth or SA or SS material.
As long as you accept conditioning which teaches you to hate people in GROUPS, which is the essence of the Collectivist project, the exact group really doesn’t matter. It could be Jews, Gypsies, white people, black people, homosexuals, the “cisgendered”, the bourgeoisie, the Kulaks, Christians, people with glasses, Tibetans, or Falun Gong.
And I can’t remember if I said this or not, but it seems to me that there is no point trying to decide who you want to be until you know fully who you ARE. I think most of us just stick our own capacities for atrocities deep in a hole, then spend our lives telling various lies about who we are and what we want.
And of course if a time comes when public moral virtue equals allowing out your inner demons, then it no doubt feels good. And the goal of aspiring tyrants and demonic rulers is precisely to give people that permission. As it exists today, the propaganda of the Left in this country consists in little else but mobilizing and directing violent hate. In their particular case, most of the hate is directed at people who are claimed, without evidence and in the face of a mountain of contrary facts, to be “haters”. You are allowed to hate haters. Just don’t make any effort to understand them, or the entire moral basis of your life will evaporate.