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What gets me is that it's all a response to the generally centre right governments focusing on business for the last 45 years. Government has forgotten about the individual in the west. And the people have had enough.

Why then, do they turn further right? This should be bonanza time for the left.

1. Far right parties are happy to tell lies to get into power, so the people hear what they want to hear.
2. 100 years is too long for living memory to survive.

I'm not sure anyone really fought it last time. The wars didn't start until Germany started invading other nations which is what started the shooting.

The US didn't even enter the war until it was bombed.

"We fought fascism" is a bit of retroactive justification IMHO. We didn't, we were just defending ourselves from fascists who attacked first.

If Hitler stayed in Germany... Who knows?

Yeah, history doesn't provide much help in this regard because fascism was stopped by the Axis losing a war. That's not happening this time.

I wish I believed you. I try to keep my defeatism to myself but the overwhelming majority of people around me IRL are going around like nothing is happening, ignoring current events in the name of self care. Must be fucking nice.

Yes, it should have been done much better

The source of fascism is Europe itself, not Russia. We literally invented fascism, first in Italy, then Germany and finally allowed it to live unbothered in Spain.

Russian media was censored already what, two years ago? And the far right keeps exploding in popularity. Europe can't keep blaming the Russians for every bad thing happening in the continent, we have a responsibility in fighting fascism and waving hands saying it's somebody else's fault isn't going to solve it.

Racism, misogyny, islamophobia and the total loss of faith in the current system are the main reasons for far-right vote. Europe has been in an economic crisis since 2008, and electing socdems or christiandemocrats has led to the exact same policy everywhere for the past 17 years: austerity, austerity, and more austerity. Kid Starver in England, supposed labour party, enacts policy as far-right as the far-right government in Finland, both countries driving hundreds of thousands of people into poverty and austerity.

What we need to fight fascism in Europe is what worked last time: less hand-waving, and more worker organizing. Whether you like or dislike the anarchists from the CNT in Spain, or the communists from the CPSU in the east, they were the only ones who meaningfully fought, and in the latter case ultimately defeated fascism. Organize, unionize, join local worker struggles, push for international worker solidarity with Palestine.

usually this kind of tribalism burns itself out after a World War and a bunch of atrocities. there's a global empathy shortage.. too much hate and too little love.

It's the understandable pent up anger because of failed promises by ruling elites, hiding behind fake smiles and platitudes, who are supposed to be representative of the people. The older I get, the less the Star Wars Prequel becomes meesa Jar Jar-y. Lucas touched on toxic masculinity and the lack of positive male role models, and I think he saw something in history that none of us have twenty years ago, on how toxic masculinity influences real politics. It's obvious now how fascism has connection to toxic masculinity, but I think only few saw it at the time.

that is not true. it is a snapshot of current voter mentality. if this doesn't turn around it's only going to grow and get worse. that's what this is useful for.