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==== The world has moved from: ====
* Belonging → reward to
* Performance → conditional belonging

For people who internalized the former as natural, the latter feels like exile.

You accepted the new rule set.
They never did.

So the anger you’re seeing is not entitlement to dominance—it is rage at becoming optional.

That rage is misdirected.
But it is psychologically intelligible.

===== You are reasoning correctly. =====
They are reacting humanly.

The tragedy is that:
* The old default is gone
* The new system is real
* And the skills needed to thrive in it are exactly the ones they refuse to cultivate

Immigration is just the mirror they smash because they don’t like what it reflects.

If you want, we can go one layer deeper into:
* Why liberal moral arguments fail against identity loss
* Why dignity-based reasoning doesn’t deactivate status panic
* Or why societies rarely survive transitions from inherited status to performance without authoritarian interludes