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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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[–] -3 points 4 days ago* (1 child)

Stagnant real wage growth, sure. Stagnant, so not significantly worse.

Health care? US-specific - how do you explain the massive growth of fascism in countries with reasonably well-functioning health care systems and universal health care?

Union membership? US-specific - how do you explain the massive growth of fascism in countries with 50%+ union membership rates, massively more politically influential unions and widespread collective wage bargaining?

Minimum wage? US-specific - how do you explain the massive growth of fascism in countries where even the minimum income (i.e., for the unemployed) is far above the US federal minimum wage?

Inequality? A global problem, to be sure. But how do you explain the massive growth of fascism even in countries with dramatically lower inequality, poverty and crime, and with universal access to health care and top-tier education? In fact, some of these countries are among the most egalitarian in human history since the advent of agriculture thousands of years ago.

Why did fascism emerge now as suddenly so much more popular? Could it be, perhaps, not something economic at all, but something else? Like maybe people being bombarded with fascist propaganda 24/7?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago*

    Why are you out here lying and pretending like billionaires take a wage?

    They don't. They drive up prices buying over inflated assets then borrow against them and live off the loans (all to avoid income taxes, pushing their tax burden onto the rest of society in the process). So they inflate prices, don't give back, buy up companies, give everyone else a burden and don't appear in the wage equality stats you're spraying everywhere in their defense.

    I hope you get this now, because it's one of the main problems corrupting society.

    Don't cover up for billionaires, you've done so much for them in these threads and need to stop.

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