The US is a walking cautionary tale. I really hope the rest of us learn from it in time to forcefully reject this shit before it hits the fan here as well.
Here in Europe, everywhere but the UK what Brexit did was force all Far-Right parties to stop with their anti-EU rethoric.
Maybe Trump and the consequences of his actions will have a similar effect around the US and possibly further out (I hope it screws the Far-Right around here that most apes American shit).
However, in the UK Brexit did nothing to tone down the nutty Far Right, quite the contrary.
That worked for a few years, the AfD wants Germany to return to the Deutsche Mark. That would basically be the end of the German economy, but yeah patriots and all that
Yeah, in the recent Far Right meeting in Spain they were all back to the whole anti-EU talk, which by their own criteria makes them Traitors To The Fatherland, since none of the EU nations (even Germany or France) is big enough to be able to be able to face the likes of the US or China on their own rather than as part of a united EU front: they literally want to make their nations weaker.
Personally I think that’s because pretty much all of the European Far-Right parties are being paid by foreign interests.
In the last 2 decades, the major English bloc of US, Canada, UK and Australia has been in lock step toward the shift to the right. I think it is no coincidence that it aligns with the meteoric rise of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. To satiate his incredible greed, his media organizations have fed into people’s fears and laid down the groundwork for today’s social media companies promoting inflammatory content to maximize engagement. I don’t know if democracy can survive without reining in popular media and significantly reducing biased and false reporting.
My shared hope as well. Let this be a mandate to democracies around the world to safeguard their governments from billionaires, capitalist greed, and neo facsism. Maybe that can be the world we strive to catch up to in the future.
The US is a walking cautionary tale. I really hope the rest of us learn from it in time to forcefully reject this shit before it hits the fan here as well.
Here in Europe, everywhere but the UK what Brexit did was force all Far-Right parties to stop with their anti-EU rethoric.
Maybe Trump and the consequences of his actions will have a similar effect around the US and possibly further out (I hope it screws the Far-Right around here that most apes American shit).
However, in the UK Brexit did nothing to tone down the nutty Far Right, quite the contrary.
That worked for a few years, the AfD wants Germany to return to the Deutsche Mark. That would basically be the end of the German economy, but yeah patriots and all that
Yeah, in the recent Far Right meeting in Spain they were all back to the whole anti-EU talk, which by their own criteria makes them Traitors To The Fatherland, since none of the EU nations (even Germany or France) is big enough to be able to be able to face the likes of the US or China on their own rather than as part of a united EU front: they literally want to make their nations weaker.
Personally I think that’s because pretty much all of the European Far-Right parties are being paid by foreign interests.
Yeah, the one good thing about Brexit was how all the idiots shut up about the EU completely. It’s sadly slowly wearing off though.
History is littered with cautionary tales. We never learn.
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it;
Those who do study history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.
and those who prevent history from being taught, want to lift themselves up at the expense of others
In the last 2 decades, the major English bloc of US, Canada, UK and Australia has been in lock step toward the shift to the right. I think it is no coincidence that it aligns with the meteoric rise of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. To satiate his incredible greed, his media organizations have fed into people’s fears and laid down the groundwork for today’s social media companies promoting inflammatory content to maximize engagement. I don’t know if democracy can survive without reining in popular media and significantly reducing biased and false reporting.
The commonwealth should break up Sky News
They should break up Rupert Murdoch
American here. I hope the rest of the world looks at us in horror and chooses a better path forward.
And I hope that eventually that better path finds us agian.
I am definitely watching in horror. You’d think a country obsessed with WW2 movies would at least get their parts right.
Tell your countrymen to Follow The Money, my friend. You may all get through this mess.
My shared hope as well. Let this be a mandate to democracies around the world to safeguard their governments from billionaires, capitalist greed, and neo facsism. Maybe that can be the world we strive to catch up to in the future.
How many cautionary tales does the world need? The US is just the latest edition.
We won’t. Flatlander derangement syndrome will persist.