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.
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.