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i believe that "far-right" sentiments are a natural defense mechanism against a perceived threat.
if your tribe is in danger, you start kicking the foreigners out, you start going back culturally to what you perceive as "safe",
it's literally like if a windows computer fails to boot properly 3 times in a row, it re-boots into "safe mode", which is a locked-down, dumbed-down, simplified version of the actual os. we are the computer. if people experience hardships too often throughout their daily lifes, they start "dumbing down" and "rebooting into safe mode". just that that safe mode causes more hardships for everyone else. and that's where we're at right now.
Correct. In a less obvious way we can even see it at play here, in this (interesting) discussion.
So far, in the comments trying to design a culprit, I have yet to read one that doesn't blame some 'other' group, be it the far-tight, the rich, the boomers, the US, Russia, and so on. Forget the names and the personal preference: each one is that 'foreigner', someone that is not us on which we put teh blame. The issue is among us, with all our differences and contradictions (even sometimes our hatred of one another). It's not 'them' causing the issue 'we' are the victims of.
As long as we keep looking for someone else than us to blame, well I don't see things getting much better anytime soon. Which is sad because if they don't start getting better soon they will get real worse, real a fast.
Posting that from France, a country that once valued freedom so much as to make it one of its three core principle. But that was back then.