We're seeing more and more right wing and "far right" victories around the world, but it's something a lot of people have been warning loudly about for years.
It isn't because of neoliberalism (I'll make another post sometime explaining why neoliberalism is largely a red herring), it's because the left gave up on liberalism and tolerance and became authoritarian and hateful.
Not every individual, of course there's lots of people who are still following the ideology that made them a cultural juggernaut for a long time, and there's a lot to appeal to in that. Regardless, the establishment left is terrible. Trudeau seizing the bank accounts of peaceful protesters can't be undone. Biden up against a blood red background flanked by soldiers to go on a screed against his hated political enemies can't be undone. Count Dankula getting arrested for teaching a little purse dog to do a stupid nazi salute can't be undone. Jordan Peterson having to fight in court because they're trying to take his psychiatry license away because of purely political statements made on twitter can't be undone.
This isn't the first time I've said this, but if you go back to the Weimar republic and saw what conditions led to the National Socialists getting power, you'd be hard pressed to purposefully match the conditions better: You have a people who are sick of being told they're evil for stuff they didn't have any say in. You have high inflation. You have massive pain felt by the common person for reparations being paid out of their pockets. According to one book, the Weimar republic also had examples of moral degeneracy such as child brothels that would shock the conscience of most people but was considered cutting edge at the time. That sort of thing gave the National Socialists something to leverage.
People try to argue with me on this stuff, but the proof in the pudding is in the eating. The far right is crushing the center right in many elections around the world, and the right is starting to win big against the left in many elections around the world. AfD was once unspeakable in Germany. The far right party has won in the netherlands. A deep libertarian has won in Argentina. Poilievre is looking to dominate the next election in Canada. It's even looking like Donald Trump could be the next president of the United States despite 7 solid years of defamation in the media and hundreds of criminal charges (an unprecedented act in US politics that can't be undone, might I add). Even if someone wins a debate with me, it doesn't change the facts about what's happening around the world.
Even some longtime right wingers are concerned about what the far right backlash is going to look like because it has the capacity to be really, really bad. I have to admit, I'm pretty scared of it myself because I'm not actually far right and their ideal world is one I don't want to live in.
It isn't because of neoliberalism (I'll make another post sometime explaining why neoliberalism is largely a red herring), it's because the left gave up on liberalism and tolerance and became authoritarian and hateful.
Not every individual, of course there's lots of people who are still following the ideology that made them a cultural juggernaut for a long time, and there's a lot to appeal to in that. Regardless, the establishment left is terrible. Trudeau seizing the bank accounts of peaceful protesters can't be undone. Biden up against a blood red background flanked by soldiers to go on a screed against his hated political enemies can't be undone. Count Dankula getting arrested for teaching a little purse dog to do a stupid nazi salute can't be undone. Jordan Peterson having to fight in court because they're trying to take his psychiatry license away because of purely political statements made on twitter can't be undone.
This isn't the first time I've said this, but if you go back to the Weimar republic and saw what conditions led to the National Socialists getting power, you'd be hard pressed to purposefully match the conditions better: You have a people who are sick of being told they're evil for stuff they didn't have any say in. You have high inflation. You have massive pain felt by the common person for reparations being paid out of their pockets. According to one book, the Weimar republic also had examples of moral degeneracy such as child brothels that would shock the conscience of most people but was considered cutting edge at the time. That sort of thing gave the National Socialists something to leverage.
People try to argue with me on this stuff, but the proof in the pudding is in the eating. The far right is crushing the center right in many elections around the world, and the right is starting to win big against the left in many elections around the world. AfD was once unspeakable in Germany. The far right party has won in the netherlands. A deep libertarian has won in Argentina. Poilievre is looking to dominate the next election in Canada. It's even looking like Donald Trump could be the next president of the United States despite 7 solid years of defamation in the media and hundreds of criminal charges (an unprecedented act in US politics that can't be undone, might I add). Even if someone wins a debate with me, it doesn't change the facts about what's happening around the world.
Even some longtime right wingers are concerned about what the far right backlash is going to look like because it has the capacity to be really, really bad. I have to admit, I'm pretty scared of it myself because I'm not actually far right and their ideal world is one I don't want to live in.
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