• Vub@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A country in crisis picks a fascist that will undoubtedly make things much, much worse. As if nobody learnt a single thing from the past.

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      Look at the Philippines, we elected the son of the former dictator. And it was a landslide victory. I can’t still believe he won.

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      The voters feel they have no alternative. They’ve tried the traditional left and the traditional right and both parties failed them.

      Take El Salvador. They elected a fascist in 2019. He’s turned the nation into a police state and locked up tens of thousands of young men without a trial. But his approval rating is currently 80% … the highest in Latin America. The reason ? When he took office in 2019 the homicide rate was 51 per 100k people. It’s now 8. People can walk down the street without fear. Gangs no longer harass young girls and extort protection money from local businesses.

      If we want people to reject fascists we need to give them alternatives that actually work.

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      1 year ago

      The left wing governments have messed up so much that the people are voting into the far right as a knee jerk reaction.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        Except in countries where the far right have messed up in which case the opposite is happening.

        Basically the takeaway is from this that everyone is kind of shit. The populations tend to just flip flop between ideologies every couple of decades.

        Basically it’s the political equivalent of yo-yo dieting you don’t actually end up any better off.