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European far-right parties advocate for police units similar to ICE
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Trying not to fall for it on a moral and idealist level isn't enough. The far-right groups are gaining momentum because they're offering more prosperity to the people of their respective countries than the status quo. The foreign funding provides fuel to their ability to operate but their promise is what gets them real numbers. This promise is not going to be fulfilled long term since it doesn't address the real problems. But that won't stop people from trying it. There's a very real possibility that their message will still gain overwhelming support even if the foreign funding is cut (which should absolutely be cut). People are entirely capable of funding popular political movements themselves. Not to mention domestic corporate interests coming onboard. This is why I think the real medicine is a material alternative for increased prosperity beyond the status quo. Increasing the retirement age to pay for tax cuts in the age of automation is the opposite of that.
The far right groups are gaining ground because they are running as reform, and the mainstream parties are all captured by the rich and connected, and are running as the status quo, while it's never been more clear the status quo is a rapidly declining standard of living, and personal freedoms.
It is quite simple, the far right, backed by the US and Russia, will win, because they are the only ones running as reform. What is wrong with the other parties? They are too afraid to buck the rich to save all of them, including the rich, from a fascist state? Do they not realize the fascists will fix themselves in power, and rig elections?
But all we need to do is field popular reform, real populism, not the fake populism of the far right that scapegoats others for our problems, like blaming immigrants for our stolen lunch, the rich stole our lunch.
No, they don't. They just lie. And they do so very obviously. Which then brings us back to sovereignity and independence... in the form of media and social media that is either highly corrupt or incompetent (in reality probably different amounts of both) and totally failing in informing us about actual facts over cheap clicks.