They held mock elections in schools and it seems the far right party is extremely popular with young folks. Troubling how fascism rises so quickly.
Why are the younger gens becoming right wing? Your young your supposed to hold progressive ideas
Probably the same thing that happens all over Europe: right wing parties are favored by social media.
It’s easy to just claim things and spread hate in short form content. It’s hard to set things straight and share a more nuanced opinion.
I’m worried it may also be short sightedednes (is that a word?)
Had a conversation with a friend the other day who voted for that block, but not that party, and it’s a bit frightening how otherwise intelligent people fall into the simplistic arguments made by this populist party.
We’re spending too much money on X, we need to cut it to the bone. Without ever asking a follow-up question as to what will happen if you do that. Maybe it is as you say, you get served something on social media that seems like an easy fix and people eat it up without question before jumping to the next tik tok or whatever.
A big thing in this election has also been the wealth tax, which I agree is not working as it should. However a lot of people seem to believe that this tax originated in a vacuum by a greedy government, and not an attempt to have the multi millioners pay some god damned tax.
Emotions also play a big role in this. Lots of political parties aim to maintain the status quo. If the status quo isn’t working anymore for a lot of people, they start looking for answers. In comes the right, making people angry about the situation, and angry people stop thinking. Instead they start parroting talking points, and the right is ready to feed people points and solutions that are easy, quick and wrong. By now the angry mass gobbles it up and integrates it in their belief system. Any rational argument against the slogans henceforth becomes a personal attack. Radicalization is now complete.
Shortsightedness is a word, yes.
I held pretty hardcore right wing ideas when I was young. Even into my 30s. Environment plays a big role in social understandings. Basically everyone in my family was a giant bigot, as was I.
Not necessarily. Rebellious, is what young people often are. At least I was. If some social policy was the status quo for a long time they might rebel against that. Thankfully my parents were super conservative.
I can see that. Being a late 70s gen x I grew up under conservative parents and even the older gen x seemed to be more conservative. Those of gen x who were teens in the 90s seemed to be far more against religion and traditions.
I sort of hope that is true because that would mean the hard right now who’s preaching trad wives and push as many babies as possible are also hopefully raising the next big age group to rebel against them. And among the religious groups who’s membership has increased with teens.
Here’s hoping they grow to hate their parents mental abuse and lies as they are going to be those growing up in a world where they can see their parents lies happening in real time, from crumbling infrastructure, healthcare, jobs and climate change they are going to have to come together to survive. Maybe aids 2.0 whatever that will be will help make that push.
COVID did the opposite but a disease that literally kills their friends and family while the government does nothing
Fascism thrives on fear as a means to control. It fosters it. It kindles it. It works hard to keep reasons up for people to feel fear, so that they turn off their thinking and let the fascists control their fear.
While in Western Europe the past 70 years were mostly working on the notion that your wealth and well being would increase, we now are at a point, where the future will have mostly loss of wealth and well being relative to the parents generation. In that climate, Fascists can easily foster, exploit and twist those fears.
“Climate change? It isn’t real and it is just a hoax to take your car away! Global instability and mass expulsion of people? It is just the brown people wanting to steal your social security! Don’t look at the countries and corporations running the globe into the ground and being in bed with the Fascists! Look at the people struggling as a result of it. Hate them, look down on them and fear them. And fear becoming like them, as we dismantle the very same systems that gave you a stable livelihood!”
Fascism is a self fulfilling prophecy of fear, anger and decline for the people falling into it and a brief mania of total control and superiority for the Fascist leaders, until the whole system comes crashing down, as it inevitably does.
Fascism for all!!! /s
