Coincidence or not, the party has timed its congress for the centenary of an infamous Nazi rally. But condemnation didn’t stop Hitler, and it’s not enough now, says historian and journalist Katja Hoyer
Your analysis focuses on the “worse off” part of the inequality equation. You are seeing “worse off” people voting far right and you’re arguing for removing that option for them.
You are ignoring the “better off” part of the inequality equation. The reason why the discourse is flooded with right wing shit is not because the “worse off” people are racists. It’s because the “better off” people want them to be racists.
See, it doesn’t matter whether today’s economy is better than in the 1990s. What matters is that today’s “better off” people have way more political power than in the 1990s. Which they use by exercising their free speech by flooding the discourse with right wing shit. Which is also why your “banning” approach just won’t work: they will just shit on you stronger and you’ll lose the next election.
The economic strategy to actually tackle fascism is not to make the worse off less worse off. As you argue, they are less worse off now than before. But that’s looking it from the wrong side. The point is to cut down the much much better off so they no longer can translate their economic power to political power.
Focus on Sauron, not on the Haradrim. Saruman, not the Dunlendings.
Your analysis focuses on the “worse off” part of the inequality equation. You are seeing “worse off” people voting far right and you’re arguing for removing that option for them.
You are ignoring the “better off” part of the inequality equation. The reason why the discourse is flooded with right wing shit is not because the “worse off” people are racists. It’s because the “better off” people want them to be racists.
See, it doesn’t matter whether today’s economy is better than in the 1990s. What matters is that today’s “better off” people have way more political power than in the 1990s. Which they use by exercising their free speech by flooding the discourse with right wing shit. Which is also why your “banning” approach just won’t work: they will just shit on you stronger and you’ll lose the next election.
The economic strategy to actually tackle fascism is not to make the worse off less worse off. As you argue, they are less worse off now than before. But that’s looking it from the wrong side. The point is to cut down the much much better off so they no longer can translate their economic power to political power.
Focus on Sauron, not on the Haradrim. Saruman, not the Dunlendings.