A justification of personal failure or inadequacy (or perhaps even random misfortune or historical accident) as solely the result of an external agent 'depriving us of what is our right' is as old as Man. We deserve more than They. That's Narcissism.
And They always want what's Ours. That is Paranoia; conspiracy, the scapegoat. If it wasn't for YOU, We would have everything We deserve; you treacherous thieving [insert the racial, religious, ethnic or political slur of your choice here]. That meme is one of the driving sources of human behavior. It exists to some extent in every head.
It explains, territoriality, acquisitiveness, aggression, dominance, greed, just about everything ugly in humanity. It comes right out of the lizard brain.
Not to pick on the Germans, but they once felt they were the Master Race, superior to all others, and that their true birthright had been stolen from them by a subhuman class of intrinsically inferior creatures (Jews).
The fundamental contradiction of this view is that if they were indeed the Master Race, then how in the hell had a subhuman minority of inferior creatures succeeded in dominating them? 50 million people had to die to demonstrate that fallacy, and some people still believe it, or some variation of it. They just try to dress it up in ideology and pseudoscience.
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