Europe

This is no bleep. Far right authoritarianism is soon to become the new normal.

Technocratic centrism is entirely ineffective to address this. "Solving problems" while "preserving normalcy" and the "stability of the markets" is not enough. It just simply cannot beat fascism at the ballot box after a couple of cycles.

The reason is that the "normalcy" is unsustainable, untenable. Both reality and the electorates need transformation politics. The Right transformative narratives have stepped into the fray.

Only an actual Left counter, with an actual Left program for transforming society can stop this.

I'm a member of the German left-wing party and I promise we're fighting tooth and nail against this.

The reason is simple: Neither the center left nor the center right are delivering for the broad human populace. They both protect the ultra rich by not taxing them, which in turn creates a redistribution of wealth from the poor, the middle class AND the state to the ultra rich.

On a basal level, everyone understands that the economic status quo can not continue. Living standards continue to fall regardless of who is in power, and so it is inevitable that people will demand some sort of drastic change.

The loudest voice promising change is the alt right.

The second loudest voice is us, taxing the rich. It must be done, and we need to do all we can to become the loudest voice. We have several more years until the elections in eg. UK and Germany. Let’s do it. Let’s tax the rich.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pUKaB4P5Qns&pp=0gcJCa0JAYcqIYzv

USA:

Germany, France, Britian:

https://worldwar3illustrated-blog.tumblr.com/post/632986384848781312/this-was-my-first-anti-trump-comic-strip-it-was

Social media platforms are now mostly for reproducing fascism, along with large chunks of mass media.

Fascism, is, however, a scam.

What the fuck is happening.

Do Russia and China's investments in Europe's far-right pay back?

A study on extreme political parties in the European Parliament (from April 2024) by the Association for International Affairs (AMO) the European far-right downplays the significance of China’s human rights violations (opens pdf). Far-right parties also mostly echo Beijing’s rhetoric on sovereignty, supporting China’s territorial claims in regions like Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Taiwan, and Tibet.

For example, both Germany’s far-right AfD and France’s Rassemblement National argue that decoupling from China or imposing economic sanctions harms European economies, advocating instead for stronger economic cooperation with Beijing, and they often oppose EU sanctions on Russia, trying to undermine European support for Ukraine.

The European far-right's view of China and Russia as some sort of "counterbalance to U.S. alignment" and criticizing Europe for its historically close relationship with the U.S. is something we also read here on Lemmy very often (although it is clear that the U.S.' recent abandonment of democratic principles doesn't make China and Russia better partners).

In recent times I've seen a take more frequently that boosting polls far away from the elections just helps the populists. German article:

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/sonntagsfrage-die-staendigen-scheinwahlen-schaden-der-demokratie-und-gefaehrden-sinnvolle-politik-a-cdc827a3-0160-467c-8bdd-a6e009da4b50

English paper (not peer-reviewed): https://www.wiwi.uni-muenster.de/loep/en/research/publications/154536

I haven't seen a political party, which has an actual scope and vision to have a feasable plan and approach to tackle the problems we're actually facing. The old ideals have died a while ago, and the stuff that used to bind us and keep us together aa groups, has disappeared.

This new world we live in has new unique problems and complexity, which actually can only maybe be solved in an worldy international stage. But, the priorities, cultures, educations , etc, are too divergent region wise.

In a sense a world government and a world carved up in regions or parts of regions might provide a system, to translate citizens preferences and their specific problems into a resemblance of a workable political representation.

Imo, as politicians have no clue what's even happening, they comeup with very simple symbolic politics, simply to garner a position, and appease voters. In the end their results might be questionable at best, but we do sense something like a better or a worse choice, if you will.

Since the world has become interconnected no one ciuntry or people, can sustain a model based on self reliance. With our im& export markets we export our own problems, and naturally import other countries problems.

I think the changes of late, are too many and too quick for any sane person to comprehend. We are all spilling all the ideas, good and bad, over to each other and we just sort of choose a middle path somewhere in this chaos, while simultaneously desperately clinging to what ia perceived as a ritualism of our idea of a sane political, economical and material world.

But everyone knows it's fake. Especially the Billionaires of these times, and Politicians they know it's all bullshit. And we know it too, but we need a sense a normalcy, so we grab anything we can to justifify our discontent , give it a name, find a solution. Imo, humans don't want to face their biggest fear: themselves. I mean wtf are we and who do we want to be?!

My rambling morning thoughts, but that's what I saw after reading some good comments on the rise of the right , and hopefully the left.

Add.And, if we do want to find out who we are and what do we want to be,as tribe, region, country, freedom is 100% essential.

People are going to keep voting further and further right until someone listens to their demands on legal and illegal immigration. In most European countries it is the largest single issue polled. What frustrates me immensely is that so many centrist and left wing parties all over Europe have the opportunity to rein in record high immigration in a sensible and pragmatic way right now - but refuse to do so. They would rather lose the next election and hand over all control of this issue to the right, who will not use care and consideration. They will leave the ECHR and re-write their humanitarian laws to reject all asylum claimants and deport every single person in the country illegally. Refusing to listen to voters and compromise on such a major issue isn't a principled stance. It just guarantees an even worse outcome.

I think my country of Denmark has a decent balance. I hope other European countries can find balance and compromise. This problem won't go away on its own. It will get worse until leaders listen to voters. That's how democracy works - especially if they disagree with the voters.