Really what I don’t understand about Americans … they are given two political options … one sensible one and one batshit crazy one … and it’s still a complicated toss-up that they have to endlessly debate about.
Yes, but the sensible one has icky brown people. And my pastor told me that us blond blue eyed tall people are the chosen ones. You see, that’s why we are politically “right”, cuz we’re on the right side! Gahyuck 😛
And how is it going in your country? Because i would bet my bottom dollar that the far right nationalist party either just made massive ground in your last election, or are predicted to have a massive increase in the next election. This isn’t an American issue, it’s a “our modern society is crumbling around us” issue.
This pisses me off the most. We’re all getting a good look at how bad it can actually start going, like we have a real life example happening right now, not just rhetoric, and apparently we’re all fucking excited for our turn.
I’m going to get my tinfoil hat on and say its the global illuminati new world order shadow government lizard people controlling everything because im not sure I can face reality believing the majority of people are that fucking stupid.
Because the neoliberal order has absolutely decimated the standard of living for most people. People are driven from their homes by skyrocketing prices while their standard of living declines. We all see the wealth we are creating, but each year get a smaller and smaller slice of the pie. Fascists pry at the obvious flaws in the system, while the established institutions and parties swear that just a bit more austerity and investment into tech and finance companies will make everything better. Free-marlet capitalism has failed and everyone knows it, but the only the fascists are allowed to voice their solution since it further benefits the wealthy.
You would be correct if the “far right nationalist party” was anything comparable to actual fascists.
Sure, our rightmost mainstream party just had its second best election ever (≈20 %). The thing is that this party has been a decent part of parliament (8-17 %) since the 1980s. They were part of a government coalition with three other parties from 2017-2021.
Frankly, they’re nowhere near being an actual far-right nationalist party. On a global scale, they’re more of a “far-right” populist party for people that want to complain about all the other parties. They’re basically immigrant-loving democratic communists compared to pretty much anyone but Bernie Sanders over in the US.
I think part of the problem in the US right now is that your Overton window is shifted so far to the right that pushing back against authoritarianism is no longer a given. So while Europe is definitely seeing a worrying surge of far-right nationalism, the pushback here is much stronger. Also, a European far-right party doing terrifyingly well and becoming the biggest party in parliament typically amounts to something like 20-30 % of the vote. When no other party will touch them with a fire poker, 30 % doesn’t really give that much real power, so there’s a decent protection in the multi-party system as well.
The American education system only had a very brief window of competency…
That’s it, the tragic truth is we’re woefully uneducated. There was a brief bright spot in the 80s/90s but even that wasn’t great.
Other than that, it’s the fact that so much of the country is isolated small towns. People in NYC and bumfuck Alabama don’t really have a lot in common, so there’s no real unifying identity or even set of values.
And then obviously oligarchs corrupting both parties so they couldn’t lose. But its worth mentioning they lost control of the DNC almost a year ago.
We are bombarded with propaganda and large numbers of us aren’t able to filter out true information. All of it is by design. While we’re running around arguing with each other and being appalled by the outrage of the week the billionaires and their cronies (our “elected” representatives) do everything they can to siphon more and more money out of us. We’re fed constant comfort and false security that keeps us complacent for fear that it’ll be taken away. We’re constantly forced to compare ourselves to others keeping us striving beyond reason to attain X so we can be happy or fulfilled or whatever their selling.
Winning both above and below median income is a little nuts…
It’s honestly just the 1% freaking out
Really what I don’t understand about Americans … they are given two political options … one sensible one and one batshit crazy one … and it’s still a complicated toss-up that they have to endlessly debate about.
Yes, but the sensible one has icky brown people. And my pastor told me that us blond blue eyed tall people are the chosen ones. You see, that’s why we are politically “right”, cuz we’re on the right side! Gahyuck 😛
And how is it going in your country? Because i would bet my bottom dollar that the far right nationalist party either just made massive ground in your last election, or are predicted to have a massive increase in the next election. This isn’t an American issue, it’s a “our modern society is crumbling around us” issue.
This pisses me off the most. We’re all getting a good look at how bad it can actually start going, like we have a real life example happening right now, not just rhetoric, and apparently we’re all fucking excited for our turn.
I’m going to get my tinfoil hat on and say its the global illuminati new world order shadow government lizard people controlling everything because im not sure I can face reality believing the majority of people are that fucking stupid.
That was also right-wing projection, BTW.
https://newrepublic.com/article/182008/erik-prince-secret-global-group-chat-off-leash
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cpac-trump-hungary-poland-orban-europe-maga/
Because the neoliberal order has absolutely decimated the standard of living for most people. People are driven from their homes by skyrocketing prices while their standard of living declines. We all see the wealth we are creating, but each year get a smaller and smaller slice of the pie. Fascists pry at the obvious flaws in the system, while the established institutions and parties swear that just a bit more austerity and investment into tech and finance companies will make everything better. Free-marlet capitalism has failed and everyone knows it, but the only the fascists are allowed to voice their solution since it further benefits the wealthy.
You would be correct if the “far right nationalist party” was anything comparable to actual fascists.
Sure, our rightmost mainstream party just had its second best election ever (≈20 %). The thing is that this party has been a decent part of parliament (8-17 %) since the 1980s. They were part of a government coalition with three other parties from 2017-2021.
Frankly, they’re nowhere near being an actual far-right nationalist party. On a global scale, they’re more of a “far-right” populist party for people that want to complain about all the other parties. They’re basically immigrant-loving democratic communists compared to pretty much anyone but Bernie Sanders over in the US.
I think part of the problem in the US right now is that your Overton window is shifted so far to the right that pushing back against authoritarianism is no longer a given. So while Europe is definitely seeing a worrying surge of far-right nationalism, the pushback here is much stronger. Also, a European far-right party doing terrifyingly well and becoming the biggest party in parliament typically amounts to something like 20-30 % of the vote. When no other party will touch them with a fire poker, 30 % doesn’t really give that much real power, so there’s a decent protection in the multi-party system as well.
This is what happens when money can purchase politics.
The American education system only had a very brief window of competency…
That’s it, the tragic truth is we’re woefully uneducated. There was a brief bright spot in the 80s/90s but even that wasn’t great.
Other than that, it’s the fact that so much of the country is isolated small towns. People in NYC and bumfuck Alabama don’t really have a lot in common, so there’s no real unifying identity or even set of values.
And then obviously oligarchs corrupting both parties so they couldn’t lose. But its worth mentioning they lost control of the DNC almost a year ago.
We are bombarded with propaganda and large numbers of us aren’t able to filter out true information. All of it is by design. While we’re running around arguing with each other and being appalled by the outrage of the week the billionaires and their cronies (our “elected” representatives) do everything they can to siphon more and more money out of us. We’re fed constant comfort and false security that keeps us complacent for fear that it’ll be taken away. We’re constantly forced to compare ourselves to others keeping us striving beyond reason to attain X so we can be happy or fulfilled or whatever their selling.
But you see, only one side wants to punish the people I don’t like, so… the choice is clear. /s
Every time I look all options are crazy. Some might be slightly less crazy, but all are crazy in some way.