• Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
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      Neoliberal policies that take wealth way from everybody but the rich and gives it to them.

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        Neoliberal policies that take wealth way from everybody but the rich and gives it to them.

        I do not know about other EU countries but in my country these far right voters want MORE Capitalism/Neoliberalism, not less.

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          Oh yes, that is the whole stupidity about it. They suffer from it, like we all do, and then they want more of it. But they need to be dragged towards leftist policies or they will drag us all into the abyss.

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            Because fascist parties have a scapegoat and clear things they want to change. Meanwhile the centrist parties that claim to be “left” are just sputtering around doing more of the same or window dressing approaches that do nothing, and are more interested in stopping the actual leftist movements that will help people and stop fascism.

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          Wealth inequality effects everyone and so it changes how everyone votes, but it also causes certain “answers” to that problem to become more popular or tolerable. So what we’re seeing around the globe is the rise of the far right who are providing the “answer” that rising inequality and lowering standard of living is entirely the fault of immigrants, the loss of the “traditional family”, and pretty much any “answer” except for useful ones. So no, this typically starts by driving people to the right as the right will most easily attempt to maintain the status quo at the expense of the scapegoat.

          The follow on effect is the rise of the “radical” left which provides the answer “tax the ultra wealthy, invest in public infrastructure, and strengthen worker rights” - all things that reduce wealth inequality or increase the standard of living.

          We’re currently figuring out which side will win out in the long run or if the fundamentals will continue to not change and delay this issue further. For example Merz and the CDU in Germany making life better for the rich and worse for everyone else, delaying the inevitable decision of either the AFD winning or some party like Die Linke (hopefully) or Die Grüns winning. So Germans get to watch their lives get worse until they’re ready to vote in parties with real positive change on their mind (or the opposite, real terrible changes like AFD).

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          What planet are you even living on? Have you not seen the state of America? Remember Brexit? Why do you think fascists are surging in the polls everywhere? If a declining standard of living and quality of life created leftism out of thin air every developed economy would be on the verge of socialism in 2026.

          Neoliberal/Conservative policies make the working class poorer and the rich richer, who use their capital to seize the means of democracy, kill competition, create monopolies, consolidate ownership of the media, etc and engage in wholesale propaganda aiming to divide and conquer the working class. The greatest threat to the Epstein classes wealth and power is a truly democratic government working “for the people”, so they’re promoting the same fascist populism everywhere to implement totalitarian dictatorship and remove the threat of democracy.

          The uneducated moron who “doesn’t do politics” is the easiest mark for fascism to con, because they can’t see the incongruence; the patterns of lies, crimes, corruption, and psychopathy only learned from studying historic parallels.

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          Sure, a certain part, but if I look at my country or other democratic countries the right manages through their control of the media to convince a lot of people that it is the immigrants fault and we just need to be more xenophobic and then we will all be better off.