i mean that's definitely the best case scenario.
idk if you've seen one piece, but...A blue nosed reindeer, Chopper, gains the power of being able to turn into a human, for this he gets violently rejected by both the reindeers and humans. He finds his way to Dr. Hiriluk, also an outcast, who wants to cure the people. Chopper asks him one day why he has so much compassion and why he works so hard for the people who hate him and chase him away from their towns, to which Hiriluk replies - "you mustn't be angry at them, Chopper, for the people are sick. This whole country is sick."
Their country was under a dictatorhip at this point. the dictator was laying the pressure on thick. the people were scared and their fear was being used to manipulate them. Even in our world, with the rise of right wing and fascism,in lots of different countries, and a tanking economy, and rising AI-related worries, people are scared and politicians are manipulating that fear into making them far worse/meaner than they actually are.