No I’m not catastrophising.

The world is slowly lurching towards a fully fascist led America, India, Hungary, Russia, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Argentina.

Instead people are either ignorant or blaming “wokeism”* for their problems.

I have no clue what to do and this is literally a car crash in slow motion.

I’m despondent because I’m going to be crushed under the boot when the time comes and my morals get in the way of my survival instinct.

Humans are repeating the mistakes of the past. It’s just so anxiety inducing.

*Woke is a useless term promulgated by fascists to dog whistle the things they really want to hate - feminism, socialism, LGBTQIA+, immigration, brown/black people, equality and diversity.

  • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
    9·
    9 months ago

    Not just late stage capitalism(which is really just a return to oligarchies)

    You want to know how this is all being pushed: look into the “International Democrat Union”

    It’s led by the christian-fascist and former Canadian prime Minister Stephen Harper. He’s giving them the aid and policy directives they’re using to trick people into voting for them.

    It’s why Pierre Polievre, current leader of the federal opposition in Canada, wants to talk about anything other than India’s assault on Canadian sovereignty. Because Modi, him and Harper are really tightly knit.

    • LarmyOfLone
      53·
      9 months ago

      Thanks! I’m more concerned about the social democratic “leftists” though, ever since the “third way” it seems they have been completely captured all around the globe. Functionally this created the fertile ground for the fascism we see today. I’m not well educated how this ideological change is distributed, I can only infer it / speculate from the effects.

      • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
        7·
        9 months ago

        Nah, Harper and his Reform party spend two decades worming their way into Canadian politics by at first showing their hand in the late 1980s and early 1990s, then learning to hide it and play it slowly. Any time any of their cult played their hand in the 2000s it was always an “outburst” or “temporary error in judgement”.

        They then conned the existing sane conservative party into “merging” with their their smaller party, and through cheating the internal politics of the combined party and pandering to the GOP, got the funds to crush the sane conservatives at the federal level.

        It has nothing to do with social programs. Has everything to do with a decades long plan to push politics rightward into accepting extremism.