In Thuringia, former East Germany, the far-right AfD has won a state election for the first time. Its success is the product of a low-wage economic model that has itself fed anti-migrant backlash.
Unfortunate side effect. They think the free market and some advertising will fix it! /s
But it’s also social media manipulating and propagandizing young people, reactionaries boosting the worst voices and grifters pushing whatever outrage gets them clicks.
And also, we know climate change is coming and with it billions of refugees. And we keep supporting proxy wars. Capitalists love this because of cheap labor. Socialists believe in solidarity, and liberals believe we can’t let them die or suffer. Which is true but people do also have selfish interests and know unbridled refugee policies will lead to collapse of Europe. If you wanted to stop refugees and immigrants you’d have to project a pacifist foreign policy and solidarity abroad. But then you become a Putin apologist (or before that Assaad).
I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but the rise of fascism in Europe and the US seems inevitable to me :(
Unfortunate side effect. They think the free market and some advertising will fix it! /s
But it’s also social media manipulating and propagandizing young people, reactionaries boosting the worst voices and grifters pushing whatever outrage gets them clicks.
And also, we know climate change is coming and with it billions of refugees. And we keep supporting proxy wars. Capitalists love this because of cheap labor. Socialists believe in solidarity, and liberals believe we can’t let them die or suffer. Which is true but people do also have selfish interests and know unbridled refugee policies will lead to collapse of Europe. If you wanted to stop refugees and immigrants you’d have to project a pacifist foreign policy and solidarity abroad. But then you become a Putin apologist (or before that Assaad).
I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but the rise of fascism in Europe and the US seems inevitable to me :(