▲ | jmyeet 3 hours ago | |
Europe is generally hurtling towards fascism. Some examples: - The UK government is busy outlawing free speech, protest and dissent. Because someone threw paint at a plane, you can now be jailed as a terrorist for saying "maybe we shouldn't drop bombs on babies in Gaza". The Labor government is an accident of the right-wing vote being split between the Conservatives and the even anti-migrant even-more-hard-right Reform party that absolutely won't be repeated in the next election; - France is teetering on the edge of fasicsm as the "centrist" president Macron openly courts the neo-Nazi National Front rather than deal with Melenchon despite his alliance getting the most votes in the last election. It's worth adding that National Front was founded by actual collaborators with the occupying Nazi party in Vichy France; - Germany has its own Islamophobic anti-immigrant neo-Nazi party that is hurtling towards attaining power: AfD; - Hungary is already an authoritarian right-wing state. And literally nobody is working to defuse this bomb by addressing the underlying causes: increasing wealth inequality and declining material conditions, even in otherwise relatively progressive countries like Ireland and Spain. So what you see and object to in the US is nothing more than Europe's future in 5-10 years if nothing changes. |