>>89634130Here's the thing, Red Skull has no reason to give a flying fuck about America protecting its borders or Europe letting in too many muslims, so you have to ask yourself "why is this skull-faced nazi man saying these things?"
And the answer is clearly because he's playing on his audiences fears and saying what they want to hear to manipulate them into doing what the Red Skull tells them to do under the guise that it's going to help their cause when in fact the only person gaining anything from this is the Red Skull himself. When talking about this page, people always leave out the context:
>normal guy that just wants a better life but circumstances keep being against him is at a low point in his life>Red Skull gives him hope through his speech and gets this normal, not-evil guy to by into >goes all in on Hydra because he thinks he's going to be part of something that'll make America a better place and turn his life around>after the initial hype dies down, he realises how badly he's been manipulated and becomes an even more broken man than he was before he met the Skull, choosing suicide because he doesn't think there's any coming back from where Red Skull has taken himThe person that's listening to this speech and agrees with it isn't portrayed as a nazi or as crazy or evil. He's portrayed as a regular guy that's just down on his luck. He's meant to be sympathetic. The problem isn't agreeing with the speech, it's letting the fact that you agree with the speech allow you to be manipulated by an evil man whose preying on your fears to advance his own agenda at your expense.
Look past the hollow rhetoric.
