If you accept weakness, then you will share your strength, knowing others will do the same in a community of people where no one is fundamentally better than anyone else.
If you were raised to believe in a hierarchy where one doesn’t question their ‘betters’ where one doesn’t talk back, and affection is a reward for compliance then you will not rebel or revolt. You will accept abuse as part of the natural order of things.
That doesn’t mean they don’t feel pain or anger or injustice. They do. But they are psychologically incapable of fighting the true targets that cause their misfortune.
They lack the mental framework to grasp the concept. Like trying explain to your cat you are not getting up because of daylight savings time. It doesn’t matter how patient you are, how well spoken you are, or even how hard your cat tries – the won’t see it.
So they can’t even see the true cause of their pain, much less fight it. So they lash out randomly and when that doesn’t produce results, they settle for making sure everyone is as miserable as they are.
The other only thing that will change them is when they are so consumed by rage they will attack anyone, even the most powerful, because those are the only people left happy and “genuinely having fun” as the White House described itself.
Since those people can’t be made to see, the real question for the rest of us is how do the majority of us that don’t have authoritarian personalities move forward?