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The basic premise is that they are itching so bad to be persecuted, but are lower middle class white people. They look at their lives and see that the thing oppressing them the most is the state, but since they're law-abiding citizens who believe fully that if you act lawfully you can get what you want, there must be a lawful way to get out of state oppression.
The next step is to construct an arbitrary system of belief that magically explains your view of the world is correct, and Christianity has already done the work of frying their brain into thinking this is reasonable.
Note that at no point do they even consider that there should be no reason the oppressive state (whether that is true or not is irrelevant) doesn't simply continue to opress them during their attempt at liberation, because the state oppressing someone is something that happens to people who do unlawful things, and they're not doing anything unlawful, according to their belief system.
Good opening, but then I think you made an error. The fact that they're lower-middle class yet white, and this is America, must mean that the American Dream™ didn't work for them. Then they construct reasons why it isn't their fault, which must be state repression. The rest sorta writes itself from there.
This doesn't apply to the Moorish folks. I think they just see this online and latch on because they have their own brain poison.
That's actually not true, a great many of them are black Moorish Science Temple sovcits.