It’s been reported that in the German elections, a far right party has made ‘significant gains’.
In the UK (at least before the scandals) Reform UK seems to have had a significant boost and has even surpassed the right-wing Conservative Party in some polls/predictions.
Even France, one or two years ago, was threatened with a far-right government due to the French far right party gaining a lot of support.
It feels like in the last few years, the far-right has exceeded itself and had a surge in popularity. Is this the case? And if so, wtf is fuelling it?
Economic issues stemming from Covid. Hatred of minorities fueled by misinformation
- Rising costs / decline in incomes
- Failing infrastructure
- Decline in education
- Repression of history
- Brainwash through social media
- Nostalgia
Fear.
When people are afraid, they are less likely to help others, and want to protect their family and posessions.
Too many things honestly. Hidden racism, normalizing “if you can do it, you should do it” with unshakable faith that “the system will take care of itself” and the belief that “white culture is supposed to be the one on top”.
So now the world is going to shit, EU and US (ie “the west”) is panicking now. The rest of the world is starting to take over in technology, science and other things.
So what is the solution that people has decided? Fascism!
The other (for OG nazi it was socialist then jews then eastern europeans but today it is muslims then immigrants then people of color) is destroying our (read white colonialist) values so “we must use force against our enemy”, “we must be not be soft”, “it is the woke left mafia that is helping the other” so on and so forth…
The Left is gaining also. The center is losing because they tied their party to unpopular war and sanctions that have destroyed their economy and climate goals.
The Left is refusing to arm Ukraine and is offering Mamdani-like reforms in Berlin.
Give people what they want and you win, and it’s certainly NOT war.
We lost bad versus good because of moral ambiguity. Now all we have is left and right. My experience with left and right is that they are both parts of the same bigger body that controls their movements.
pieces of shit.
and elon musk.
but i repeat myself
The economic injustice, the feeling of hopelessness and representation is the soil, and misinformation and populism the exponentiator.
People vote right against their own interests because they don’t know better, because they feel heard, or because they feel that something has to change, or because they’re indoctrinated in these views and communities.
Billionaires. They fund right-wring advocates, because tearing down establishment concepts like “rule of law”, “industrial standards”, “equality”, and so forth is very useful to the wealthy.
Billionaires. In any sane society they wouldn’t exist while there are homeless people on the street
Stupidity, gullibility, and hate mostly.
Elon.
Disindustrialisation, reduction of purchasing power imo
The internet and very wealthy, very evil people.
Wealth concentration, information manipulation and concentration, lack of education and media literacy. We’ve slowly pulled back the taboo of being a Nazi.
That is scary
When i was growing up we used to enjoy an illuminati conspiracy theory, a bunch of incredibly powerful people behind closed doors pulling the strings of society. So ya now we have that IRL and its not even happening behind closed doors. The reason why rightwing populism is up is… the people with money who create the narrative and incentive structure of society are steering us that way. There is no meaningful opposition to Facebook and Fox News slowly rotting out society.
