the world is going to shit based on the interests of the rich, and many people choose the easier option of blaming immigrants and black people.
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Right wing authoritarianism is unfortunately pretty popular in Western democracies these days. I'm hopeful that things get better some day, but I'm also worried that they'll get a whole lot worse before then.
Hmm... if there's 200 or so countries and terms are usually 3 years then... 50 elections is a slow year?!
Tricky one this.
On one hand, such articles frequently position Western democracy as Best-ern Democracy and keen observers will know it’s largely a conceit : the varying archaic electoral systems are maintained to serve existing Power structures, the best funded campaigns usually win, the elected representatives are then in hoc to Capital to deliver the policies Ut wants, rather than in hoc to the electorate that put them there.
And that’s just the legal flaws, before we get to corruption in its many forms.
On the other hand, perhaps we should not take the stability and peace we have for granted. Most of the West now has developed far right organisations, that are trivial to activate, operating as they do on populist dogma. A small proportion of them genuinely harbour racist agendas - but the majority have just been propagandised to the point they are motivated for violent insurrection or other acts of terror .
Neither position sparks joy .
This is the best summary I could come up with:
LONDON (AP) — More than 50 countries that are home to half the planet’s population are due to hold national elections in 2024, but the number of citizens exercising the right to vote is not unalloyed good news.
From Russia, Taiwan and the United Kingdom to India, El Salvador and South Africa, the presidential and legislative contests have huge implications for human rights, economies, international relations and prospects for peace in a volatile world.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the world’s longest-serving female leader, won a fourth successive term Monday in an election that opposition parties boycotted and preceded by violence.
India, the world’s most populous country, is due to hold a general election by mid-2024 that is likely to bring Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party a third consecutive term.
Mujtaba Rahman of political consultancy Eurasia Group predicted that the upcoming European Parliament races won’t produce a populist majority but “the center will lose ground compared to the last vote” in 2019.
The ANC has held the presidency and a majority in parliament since the end of the country’s racist apartheid system in 1994, but the previously revered organization won less than half the vote in 2021 local elections.
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