“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.”

— George Carlin

(Replaced with another Carlin quote that is much more on the nose.)

1. Be born as a part of a privileged group, abuse other groups and enjoy it.
2. Lose said privileges
3. Become angry that you can't abuse people anymore
4. Watch other groups flourish as they stop being oppressed. Become even more angry that they are doing better as your stupid ass is stuck in the same shit job
5. Get a chance to abuse those groups again and unload your anger at them

It starts by Republicans keeping the school system balkanized into 50 different state curriculums, then they work to suppress the teaching of Critical Thinking Skills in as many state systems as possible. Without CTS, students develop some other petsonal random form of chaotic thinking.

Then they get out of school, and somewhere along the line they get introduced to the Conservative Propaganda Machine, which knows how to manipulate the minds of those who were deliberately never taught to think properly.

The best solutions would be a single responsible FEDERAL public school curriculum in all 50 states, that focuses on teaching and honing Critical Thinking Skills, with a section on recognizing and resisting propaganda. 2+2=4 in every state in America, Cat is spelled C-A-T everywhere in America. We don't need 50 state curriculums. You want to DOGE the government? Start with streamlining the educational system so we aren't reinventing the wheel 50 times, often by states that don't know a wheel should be round, or want to make it square because it pisses off the Libz.

After that, we need regulations on political propaganda and disingenuous political speech. We have truth in advertising laws, and they should apply to political speech as well. After all, political campaigns are just marketing campaigns for a product (the candidate), and should be expected to be as accurate and truthful as any other advertising.

there's some studies showing that the cops more likely to discharge a firearm are veterans. so most likely joining an imperialist war or being an incel are motivating factors

This is a deliciously ironic comment to me. You ask for what pipeline would lead someone to treat others as less than human, and then you immediately dehumanize them.

This is not a defense of the fascists, before anyone construes that. They are evil. But they are no less human, and that's an important distinction.