People who don't believe it themselves, but who are still willing to use that kind of rhetoric to mobilize support for the policies they do promote. Not only are they guilty of knowingly propagating a dangerous lie they know to be false, but they do so because of their contempt for their own partisans, and convinced their political allies are ignorant and evil enough to want to believe it.

Do you really believe that the leaders of the Nazi party (with the possible exception of Hitler himself) actually believed all that anti-Semitic nonsense? Now you see what we're up against.

I know I stress this point a great deal, but I am convinced that it is important we understand this dynamic and how it is exploited by fascism. There are many people in the world who are racist, and America is certainly no exception. But those who are capable of the conception, organization and execution of a targeted campaign of racist political propaganda can't just be dismissed as stupid and mean people. These partisan propagandists have an agenda that has nothing to do with race, they are trying to promote other outcomes, they seek power and wealth for other reasons than simple simian bigotry. Hate is not necessarily what characterizes or motivates these people, it is a tactic they have consciously and cynically adopted for their own dark purposes.

I hate these people and everything they stand for, but not because they are acting on impulses from their lizard brains, but precisely because they are highly evolved hominid sociopaths. They are the Krell, and they have unleashed the monsters of the ID to carry out their bidding.