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What’s fuelling the rise of the far right? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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It’s been reported that in the German elections, a far right party has made ‘significant gains’.

In the UK (at least before the scandals) Reform UK seems to have had a significant boost and has even surpassed the right-wing Conservative Party in some polls/predictions.

Even France, one or two years ago, was threatened with a far-right government due to the French far right party gaining a lot of support.

It feels like in the last few years, the far-right has exceeded itself and had a surge in popularity. Is this the case? And if so, wtf is fuelling it?

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[–] [S] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What I don’t get though, is we’ve had millionaires and billionaires all throughout history, so what’s triggered this specific boost?

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  • [–] 19 points 5 days ago*

    It's finally gotten to a point where wealth and power are concentrated into a sufficiently small enough group of people they can:

    1. Collectively agree to all do the same thing
    2. All benefit from their cooperative action
    3. Afford to bribe as many officials as it takes to have complete control of any political system of their choosing
    4. Wield enough of the world's resources that everyone else has no choice but to follow suit
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