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1 day agoAuthoritarian psychology. Roughly 30% of any given population would much prefer to live in a society of strict hierarchies, rules, and consequences where everyone knows their place.
See: the entire career of Bob Altemeyer. Specifically I recommend “The Authoritarians” it’s a free PDF on his website.
To be fair all of that is still true while the refinery is running. There’s a reason that Refinery Row and the Cancer Belt overlap almost perfectly in texas.