Why the far right is surging all over the world.

[berg80]

Russia's actions to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election and help then-presidential candidate Donald Trump win were similar to its activities to build a network of far-right political parties and movements in Europe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is using this network to advance his policy objectives at home and abroad.

In this effort, Russia is motivated by both the desire to lead a conservative revival against Western liberal democracies and a flawed interpretation of recent waves of popular uprisings against autocratic rulers that sees an American conspiracy behind them.

Deep Dive Into How Putin Undermines Western Democracy

Trump's unwavering support for Putin shows disturbing similarities to Europe's far right.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Votto]

While Americans have long clashed over our country’s cruel and bigoted past, Germans have undertaken one of the most thoroughgoing efforts of any nation on the planet to reckon with their history. Germany, perhaps more than any other country, has attempted to pull out by the roots its homegrown variant of the reactionary spirit — the tendency of opponents of social change to choose hierarchy over democracy, trying to constrain or even topple democracy to protect hierarchies of wealth and status.
The Nazis were born out of disgust with post-World War I Weimar democracy, led by men furious about both the new government’s weakness and acceptance of the Jewish minority into German society. After Nazism brought Germany to ruin, preventing a reactionary resurgence became one of the central goals of the country’s subsequent leaders.
So it’s all the more extraordinary that in the past few years, Germany’s far right has been on the rise.
In 2015, at the peak of the global refugee crisis, German chancellor Angela Merkel announced an open-door policy for those fleeing violence in Syria and elsewhere. In response, the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party, a Euroskeptic faction without a single seat in Parliament, morphed into a virulently xenophobic force calling for Germany to slam Merkel’s open door shut.
In 2017’s national elections, AfD won 94 seats in the Bundestag, turning it into Germany’s third-largest political party.
Opposing the country’s approach to the migration policy did not, in and of itself, make AfD a threat to German democracy. But over time the party’s behavior has become more and more troubling.

Why the far right is surging all over the world

The “reactionary spirit” and the roots of the US authoritarian moment.

www.vox.com

Fascinating article on a well covered subject. Namely, the conditions leading to a rise of far right parties espousing authoritarian governance. A nativist reaction to immigration, or a poisoning of the nation's blood, being primary among them.

Germans have undertaken one of the most thoroughgoing efforts of any nation on the planet to reckon with their history.
Will we do the same some day?

Trump says immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ Biden campaign likens comments to Hitler.​

Trump says immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ Biden campaign likens comments to Hitler.

Trump went on to say his criticism is of immigrants from all over the world, including Asia and Africa.

www.nbcnews.com

Axios Explains: The racist history of Trump's "poisoning the blood"​

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/30/trump-poisoning-the-blood-racism

Little known fact, the Indians were all Hitler as well

"There European immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country"​

 

[berg80]

Little known fact, the Indians were all Hitler as well

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"There European immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country"​

Europeans didn't poison their blood, they spilled it.

 

[berg80]

Why do you trumples think Dear Leader did not condemn the bigotfest in MSG in the strongest terms possible?

Here's why. He didn't want to confuse the flock about where he stood.

 

[LeroyDumonde]

It's curious that you constantly find the need to make things up in trying to make a point. Or perhaps not so curious since you can't make an argument without doing it.

I quoted the part where you endorsed censorship.

 

[marvin martian]

While Americans have long clashed over our country’s cruel and bigoted past, Germans have undertaken one of the most thoroughgoing efforts of any nation on the planet to reckon with their history. Germany, perhaps more than any other country, has attempted to pull out by the roots its homegrown variant of the reactionary spirit — the tendency of opponents of social change to choose hierarchy over democracy, trying to constrain or even topple democracy to protect hierarchies of wealth and status.
The Nazis were born out of disgust with post-World War I Weimar democracy, led by men furious about both the new government’s weakness and acceptance of the Jewish minority into German society. After Nazism brought Germany to ruin, preventing a reactionary resurgence became one of the central goals of the country’s subsequent leaders.
So it’s all the more extraordinary that in the past few years, Germany’s far right has been on the rise.
In 2015, at the peak of the global refugee crisis, German chancellor Angela Merkel announced an open-door policy for those fleeing violence in Syria and elsewhere. In response, the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party, a Euroskeptic faction without a single seat in Parliament, morphed into a virulently xenophobic force calling for Germany to slam Merkel’s open door shut.
In 2017’s national elections, AfD won 94 seats in the Bundestag, turning it into Germany’s third-largest political party.
Opposing the country’s approach to the migration policy did not, in and of itself, make AfD a threat to German democracy. But over time the party’s behavior has become more and more troubling.

Why the far right is surging all over the world

The “reactionary spirit” and the roots of the US authoritarian moment.

www.vox.com

Fascinating article on a well covered subject. Namely, the conditions leading to a rise of far right parties espousing authoritarian governance. A nativist reaction to immigration, or a poisoning of the nation's blood, being primary among them.

Germans have undertaken one of the most thoroughgoing efforts of any nation on the planet to reckon with their history.
Will we do the same some day?

Trump says immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ Biden campaign likens comments to Hitler.​

Trump says immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ Biden campaign likens comments to Hitler.

Trump went on to say his criticism is of immigrants from all over the world, including Asia and Africa.

www.nbcnews.com

Axios Explains: The racist history of Trump's "poisoning the blood"​

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/30/trump-poisoning-the-blood-racism

I'll bet you really want to shoot Trump, don't you?

 

[The Duke]

Xenophobia and Hate Speech Are Spiking Heading Into the Election​

Leading Republican politicians and lax social media controls have contributed to a proliferation of hate rhetoric and anti-immigrant sentiment.

The last time there was a presidential election, the country was coming off a summer of protests in favor of greater racial equality. Support for increased immigration was at the highest level ever polled.

This year is different. Former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign, filled with anti-immigrant rhetoric, is playing out in a country where researchers report seeing particularly high levels of hate speech against minority groups.

A spike that began soon after the George Floyd protests was sustained over four years and has only risen since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee.

“I certainly don’t remember in my lifetime the rhetoric against immigrants ever getting this strong during an election,” said Yonatan Lupu, an associate professor of political science at George Washington University who leads a team that monitors about 1,000 hate communities across a range of online platforms.
“It’s the demonization of the different,” said Rev. Hank Tuell, the head pastor of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Staten Island, which pulled out of plans to open a migrant shelter there this year after receiving threats of violence. “And it’s seeming to get much more ingrained into the everyday person.”

Xenophobia and Hate Speech Are Spiking Heading Into the Election

Leading Republican politicians and lax social media controls have contributed to a proliferation of hate rhetoric and anti-immigrant sentiment.

www.nytimes.com

Hey Commie shillturd? What hate speech laws are there in America?

Ha! None! Yeah! Eat shit, bitch!

Yeah, that's by design, just in case there's fucktards like you around!

 

[Anathema]

Fear and uncertainty breeds intolerance. Thank you for affirming the theory.

I hear that all the time and I laugh. It’s neither fear nor uncertainty. It’s the certainty that our deep seated disgust and nausea at what this nation and its citizens have become is the strongest possible proof at how wrong it has been to discard the traditional ideologies, values, culture and traditions which our forefathers used to create this nation two and a half centuries ago.

 

[Votto]

Europeans didn't poison their blood, they spilled it.

So you are saying that immigration destroyed the Indians?

Interesting

 

[sparky]

Why do you trumples think Dear Leader did not condemn the bigotfest in MSG in the strongest terms possible?

Here's why. He didn't want to confuse the flock about where he stood.

We're being invaded , the only confusion is from the left obfuscating the issue

Trump's platform is the largest deportation in American history

One more reason to vote for him Tuesday

~S~

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

It's curious that you constantly find the need to make things up in trying to make a point.

The Only Point Progressive Projectionist Make Is When They're Pointing at a Mirror

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Why the far right is surging all over the world.​

Because the far-left sucks. Really, really sucks.

 

[justoffal]

While Americans have long clashed over our country’s cruel and bigoted past, Germans have undertaken one of the most thoroughgoing efforts of any nation on the planet to reckon with their history. Germany, perhaps more than any other country, has attempted to pull out by the roots its homegrown variant of the reactionary spirit — the tendency of opponents of social change to choose hierarchy over democracy, trying to constrain or even topple democracy to protect hierarchies of wealth and status.
The Nazis were born out of disgust with post-World War I Weimar democracy, led by men furious about both the new government’s weakness and acceptance of the Jewish minority into German society. After Nazism brought Germany to ruin, preventing a reactionary resurgence became one of the central goals of the country’s subsequent leaders.
So it’s all the more extraordinary that in the past few years, Germany’s far right has been on the rise.
In 2015, at the peak of the global refugee crisis, German chancellor Angela Merkel announced an open-door policy for those fleeing violence in Syria and elsewhere. In response, the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party, a Euroskeptic faction without a single seat in Parliament, morphed into a virulently xenophobic force calling for Germany to slam Merkel’s open door shut.
In 2017’s national elections, AfD won 94 seats in the Bundestag, turning it into Germany’s third-largest political party.
Opposing the country’s approach to the migration policy did not, in and of itself, make AfD a threat to German democracy. But over time the party’s behavior has become more and more troubling.

Why the far right is surging all over the world

The “reactionary spirit” and the roots of the US authoritarian moment.

www.vox.com

Fascinating article on a well covered subject. Namely, the conditions leading to a rise of far right parties espousing authoritarian governance. A nativist reaction to immigration, or a poisoning of the nation's blood, being primary among them.

Germans have undertaken one of the most thoroughgoing efforts of any nation on the planet to reckon with their history.
Will we do the same some day?

Trump says immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ Biden campaign likens comments to Hitler.​

Trump says immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ Biden campaign likens comments to Hitler.

Trump went on to say his criticism is of immigrants from all over the world, including Asia and Africa.

www.nbcnews.com

Axios Explains: The racist history of Trump's "poisoning the blood"​

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/30/trump-poisoning-the-blood-racism

There's nothing wrong with a cultural enclave trying to preserve their own culture. Too often immigrants to a welcoming Homeland seek to eliminate the indigenous culture and replace it with their own. This is not nativism or protectionism nor is it hatred of immigrants. Tag naming those things in that manner is not only deceitful it's ultimately ignorant.

 

[justoffal]

Why the far right is surging all over the world.​

Because the far-left sucks. Really, really sucks.

The left has also proven itself to be an aggressively proselytizing culture that seeks to eliminate competing cultures. Coexistence is never in their plan.

The response from conservatism is predictable; it's nothing more than a desire to survive.

 

[Mac1958]

It’s very simple… the citizens of these countries are getting sick and tired of left wing governments supporting everyone and everything EXCEPT the traditional cultures, values, ideologies and beliefs of their founding and longest standing citizens of the nation.

^^^ The Left needs to understand that this is an important part of it.

The Left can disagree with it, they can dismiss and mock it, but it might be what animates people (across the world) most. So they need to honestly address it and communicate an understanding of it. Unless and until that happens, this continues.

This is a natural (and even predictable) reaction to an agenda that divides people into groups.

 

[TemplarKormac]

While Americans have long clashed over our country’s cruel and bigoted past, Germans have undertaken one of the most thoroughgoing efforts of any nation on the planet to reckon with their history. Germany, perhaps more than any other country, has attempted to pull out by the roots its homegrown variant of the reactionary spirit — the tendency of opponents of social change to choose hierarchy over democracy, trying to constrain or even topple democracy to protect hierarchies of wealth and status.
The Nazis were born out of disgust with post-World War I Weimar democracy, led by men furious about both the new government’s weakness and acceptance of the Jewish minority into German society. After Nazism brought Germany to ruin, preventing a reactionary resurgence became one of the central goals of the country’s subsequent leaders.
So it’s all the more extraordinary that in the past few years, Germany’s far right has been on the rise.
In 2015, at the peak of the global refugee crisis, German chancellor Angela Merkel announced an open-door policy for those fleeing violence in Syria and elsewhere. In response, the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party, a Euroskeptic faction without a single seat in Parliament, morphed into a virulently xenophobic force calling for Germany to slam Merkel’s open door shut.
In 2017’s national elections, AfD won 94 seats in the Bundestag, turning it into Germany’s third-largest political party.
Opposing the country’s approach to the migration policy did not, in and of itself, make AfD a threat to German democracy. But over time the party’s behavior has become more and more troubling.

Why the far right is surging all over the world

The “reactionary spirit” and the roots of the US authoritarian moment.

www.vox.com

Fascinating article on a well covered subject. Namely, the conditions leading to a rise of far right parties espousing authoritarian governance. A nativist reaction to immigration, or a poisoning of the nation's blood, being primary among them.

Germans have undertaken one of the most thoroughgoing efforts of any nation on the planet to reckon with their history.
Will we do the same some day?

Trump says immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ Biden campaign likens comments to Hitler.​

Trump says immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ Biden campaign likens comments to Hitler.

Trump went on to say his criticism is of immigrants from all over the world, including Asia and Africa.

www.nbcnews.com

Axios Explains: The racist history of Trump's "poisoning the blood"​

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/30/trump-poisoning-the-blood-racism

This is a textbook case of self-rationalization.

 

[Picaro]

virulently xenophobic force

lol rubbish. Being opposed to violent feral savages migrating into one's country from wasteland shitholes isn't 'xenophobic', it is in fact common sense, like getting rid of rabid dogs.

 

[Picaro]

^^^ The Left needs to understand that this is an important part of it.

The Left can disagree with it, they can dismiss and mock it, but it might be what animates people (across the world) most. So they need to honestly address it and communicate an understanding of it. Unless and until that happens, this continues.

This is a natural reaction to an agenda that separates people into groups.

You mean like your racist Democrats do to get votes? Not only that, you attempt to replace an entire demographics of legal citizens with criminal illegal aliens.

 

[justoffal]

This is a textbook case of self-rationalization.

It's a textbook case of wasted words on a retarded concept. First of all there's nothing "far right" or authoritarian about preserving one's own identity.

The idea that it is somehow wrong for people to resist being culturally obliterated is mentally ill. None of this so-called uprising would be happening if the immigrants in question were graceful guests to a welcoming Homeland but unfortunately they are not.

Once settled they seem determined to eliminate the indigenous culture and replace it with their own using violence if necessary.

It should come as no surprise that they have fostered violence in the targets of their displeasure.

Indigenous cultures will fight to preserve themselves. This cannot be perceived in any other way accept a simple and perfectly proper desire to survive.

 

[TemplarKormac]

It's a textbook case of wasted words on a retarded concept. First of all there's nothing "far right" or authoritarian about preserving one's own identity.

The idea that it is somehow wrong for people to resist being culturally obliterated is mentally ill. None of this so-called uprising would be happening if the immigrants in question were graceful guests to a welcoming Homeland but unfortunately they are not.

Once settled they seem determined to eliminate the indigenous culture and replace it with their own using violence if necessary.

It should come as no surprise that they have fostered violence in the targets of their displeasure.

Indigenous cultures will fight to preserve themselves. This cannot be perceived in any other way accept a simple and perfectly proper desire to survive.

You can only apply a force so much before encountering resistance.