Javier Milei’s win is a stinging rebuke of the political establishment in a nation battered by economic woes.
This fascist shit is worldwide. I was just reading yesterday about Canada’s Conservative party leader espousing antisemitic conspiracy theories. What the fuck
Fascism embraces the angry and disillusioned victims of global neoliberalism and capitalism.
Angry, disillusioned, and and gullible. The gullibility is key because otherwise people wouldn’t be so easily persuaded to blame their problems on the fascists’ chosen scapegoats.
Divide and conquer means only half of your working class understands they’re being exploited. If after a few decades it’s becoming evident that class consciousness is forming, introduce a foreign strawman into the equation and have a culture war.
introduce a foreign strawman into the equation and have a culture war.
Trans/gender politics are a perfect example of this. Nothing riles up liberals like a minority being oppressed, and nothing riles up conservatives more than minorities having rights.
Same with abortion and almost anything relating to Christianity in government.
Racism etc etc
Put it all together and baby you got a culture war stew goin’! The American way!
All of the Global Right are working together, Putin helps the GOP and Green Party, and both help the right wing in Europe, Israel, Australia, Brasil, the Gulf states, Turkey, Africa, Asia. This is why their messaging about their talking points is consistent all across the world, they share talking heads and influencers, and they constantly try to cover for each other.
This is the end result of having libertarian techbros running the social media show and it doesn’t look like it’s going to be changing anytime soon
It’s a coordinated attack by the right. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Democrat_Union This is the center of the rights global organization. Stephen Harper is the current president of the IDU.
The best part of the online discourse is all of the ill-informed Argentines that voted for him thinking he wasn’t a far-right populist, and that he’s just a libertarian. The mental gymnastics (and maybe the astroturfing) are real. “He’s not far-right, he’s just anti-abortion, doesn’t believe in climate change, and isn’t all that in favor of democracy”
Libertarians (or rather ancaps that stole the word) are far right
They looked at Bolsonaro’s economical, sanitary, environmental, institutional disaster in Brazil and thought, yeah, that’s what we want.
Good luck to them.
Now they are really screwed.
Yeah we weren’t screwed before with 200% annual inflation and no human rights! But we will be, for sure
I think the alarming rise of ultra right movements is because of the failure of leftist governments around the world. So yes, ultra right will come, we’ll get tired of that, and then ultra leftists will come again. It’s a vicious circle.
Germany had 16 years of conservative rule and still has the fat right surge
For them everything is left
And it had nothing to do with governments getting successful or not it’s just social media connecting all the racists that previously where to scared to speak out and now there’s proof that 20-30% of people are just racists and probably always where
How they be fat if Germans be lean?
In the case of Argentina we come from 20 years of mostly anti-entrepreneur left leaning govts that left us with 110% inflation, and over 40% poor and rising.
They downvoting you because they can’t handle the truth
It’s in line with the history of most of South America. Swinging from far left to far right because they both lie and promise economic prosperity while lining their and their friends pockets.
This is misleading information. The runner up is not a fascist, far right, neither populist.
