Playbook

Uncertainty breeds fear which then breeds aggression. This is where we are today in a deeply divisive era which pits groups against each other. 

When times are good people are generally satisfied even if there are always social issues to grapple with. However when your entire social order is put into question, it sparks a type of dread that stays lodged in the belly. 

This is where are right now. 

Assuaging fear requires victims which the ruling class will gladly offer you to distract from their sins. This means offering the easiest targets as blame for what ails you. 

Small and vulnerable minorities will do just fine. 

This is a playbook as old as humanity itself and plays into an exchange I had with Jack Molay recently about evil. It justifies itself through many means with the aggressor assuring themselves that it is for the sake of a greater good.