Why are there still Nazis, white supremacists etc.?
The choice to be one could be affected by one's social dominance orientation. Take the quiz in the link below and see if your orientation aligns with your posts on this site. Share the results if you feel so inclined or not. I tried it and found I had 'low' social dominance orientation.
I feel strongly that people are equal in value but make poor choices. If someone has to tell me how much better they are than the rest of the world, I think that they are suffering from serious self-deception.
Personality trait of social dominance orientation https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/20...=Science_final
The continued existence of people who hold openly white supremacist ideologies more than seven decades after the fall of the Third Reich can be explained, in part, through a social theory developed in the early 1990s. Social dominance theory seeks to explain how hierarchy-enhancing ideologies do not just drive social inequality, but are also a result of it. It suggests that a single personality trait, called social dominance orientation (SDO), strongly predicts a person’s political and social views, from foreign policy and criminal justice to civil rights and the environment. What's more, it offers insight into how ideologies such as racism, sexism, and xenophobia tend to arise from the unequal distribution of a society's resources.
“Social dominance theory provides a yardstick for measuring social and political ideologies,” says Felicia Pratto, who developed the theory with fellow psychologist Jim Sidanius.