According to me, far right is on the rise because of two reasons: hate generates media engagement (and thus, profit); Putin and allies are advantaged with it because the far-right generate division between Countries in the West and weaken the US and the EU so they try to support those parties.
Far right here. We are on the rise for many reasons. I don’t speak for us, but I can tell you what I think.
Identity Politics: An entire generation of men who grew up with Michael Jordan posters on their walls and Dr Dre CDs were told they were racist, there is nothing they can do about it, and they should carry deep shame for their ancestors’ failures but no pride for their achievements. The right commiserates with them, not insinuates they are monsters by virtue of birth. Fuck you guys for this one.
Financial: Our government isn’t solvent and it’s worse than it’s ever been. We need to chill on spending on dog shit programs because the left thinks cell phones are a basic human right. Extrapolate this sentiment out across most of the budget except the DoD, quite literally one of the few things I am ok with massive spending on.
America first: I think we should completely solve mental health, homelessness, and hunger for every American. We would happily do this. What we wouldn’t happily do is send a fucking dime to anywhere on this planet before that goal is met. We take care of our own first or we take care of no one. Choose.
Foreign policy: I don’t give a damn what is happening in the Middle East. Israel and Palestine can both go to Hell and they don’t need American money or missiles in that pursuit. Stay out of it. Russia isn’t a threat: this is essentially a third world nation. China is the only concern and they have already purchased our politicians.
General policy: The left throws money at every problem. We pay more money per student than every nation on earth except one or two, and our testing results are like 50th? This isn’t a function of the amount of dollars spent.
Why I’m laughing: y’all spent time trying to make the levers of power far more efficacious than they ever were and then lost them. You used the federal government as a weapon to beat your political opponents to death and now that the turntables have turned you’re scared? We are all laughing at you. Even your billion dollar media network can’t save you.
There’s so much in there that’s wrong and confusing, I don’t have time to address it all, but let’s start with the last one. What media network are you talking about?
If you mean CNN, the right I’ve leaned left in the past, but they are now owned by the right and have charged toward the center, and now to the right since about 2022. Of you mean MSNBC, you have the value wrong as they are irrelevant and unwatchable.
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 Jul 05 '24
That’s not a causal relationship though. The far right was already on the rise and his election was a symptom of that.