Slowly?
(Don’t forget Israel!)
Slowly?
(Don’t forget Israel!)
There's nothing you can do, at least outside of your local community. It's still possible to be a decent human being and help people with your own two hands.
At this point the only thing that would have stopped this would have been Joe Biden radically shifting to the left and laser-focusing on lifting the poor and middle class, to the extent that their new quality of life would make it unthinkable to vote Trump.
Instead, the opposite is true. Biden's spent the bulk of his time making arms deals and funding other countries' wars, and homelessness jumped 12% in 2023. Hell, in a year half of the US will have literally criminalized abortion in all cases, because Idaho got away with it already.
Fascism isn't some looming specter. It's here.
Slowly?
If only this was that simple. A "Democratic country" doesn't just wake up one day vote for a bad guy and become fascist. This has been happening all over the world for last few decades. All the past politician created few policies out of fear, out of ignorance, out of greed, and out of malice that edged us towards this. And now most of the people have accepted this blatant abuse of our freedom, our privacy, our democracy as just part of life. There is nothing that anyone can do to stop this. Because we don't bother reading EULA because we don't demand the companies the governments to do better we just sign away our rights our freedom because we have better things to do.
People are powerless and the cash flow is working against the ones aware of it.
Don't underestimate the backlash. The big, mellower, center segment of the population that is generally more chill isn't in favor of fascist idiots.
Just, do what you can to help maintain motivation in the face of the fascist fear-train. Fear is their #1 tool, it's the emotion that underpins their whole worldview. Control is simply a response to that fear. Without that underlying current of fear, though, how do they get people to grant them control?
If I got through the end of the world in 2012 I can get through this
Joke? Some people say that the Mayans were right and the world did end in 2012; it's just that it takes a long time for a system this big to fully stop functioning
That still doesn’t make sense. The world didn’t end in 2016. We are still here.
Nothing magical happened in 2016 that hasn’t been happening for the last 50 years. It’s a slow grind to the bottom.
You could argue that 2008 was the end of the world or 2001. Both events has led the economic strife you’re seeing today which is really what collapse looks like. Both those events supersede anything that happened in 2016.
If anything this is a self fulfilling prophecy and nothing to do with Mayans. It’s a silly argument to make.
Edit: the Mayan calendar ended 2012. Not 2016. I can’t remember anything special happening in 2012.
Hungary is seriously fucked up at the moment but calling it fascism is a huge stretch. It's not like these fuckers actually believe in anything, they'll just do whatever gets them the votes and the cash. Not that the tendencies aren't worrying (in fact I've left the country because of them), but it's not a full blown dictatorship yet. Source: am Hungarian.
The beginning was harmbe. 2024 is just how far we have strayed from God
My dick is still out
Yes, fully agree, we're living in post apocalypse times :( Climate crisis will cause more casualties, and the rising fascism will do so as well. There's usual housing crisis, and the hyped A.I. as well among others.
In your list of countries you can add Belgium as well. In fact today it is hard to think of a country in Europe which has shown zero far right or fascism sentiments nowadays. It is difficult to focus on positive things but things like solidarity, keeping in touch with like minded people, de-growth, D.I.Y. and de-googling can help.
Add France to your list mate. If it doesn't happen in 2027, it will happen on the next election cycle.