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Originally Posted by 68style
Maybe pointless to ask here but what’s with all right wing political groups in all first world countries turning into whackjob religious anti-science wink wink nudge nudge racist parties?
I mean Canada’s Conservative party is probably more liberal than the USA’s Democratic Party is in many respects but it’s even rearing it’s ugly head here within the party and through the PPC as well.
What do these people actually want in the end?
To me Conservative party growing up was just like about idealism and staying the course and logical financial decisions (thought his can definitely be argued in practice) and less of a bleeding heart / a little bit less government interference or less stringent taxation than, say, the Liberal party. It’s nothing like that nowadays.
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I've said it a million times on here, it's the internet man.
Nowadays you have Youtube, Podcasts, Substack, go down the list of avenues in which one can consume ideas and media. The reality is the hardcore right has invested
time and money into cultivating these platforms for the last 2 decades now. They've now created a beast in which they can no longer control, and you're seeing this problem blowing up in western democracies in Europe as well. The right is moving more from the center, and to its extreme ends, accelerated and fueled by online media.
Until the electorate becomes more savvy to this bullshit, it will continue to evolve. The reality is that humans are primal -- we naturally adhere to tribalism, rightwing ideas of "us vs them" fit perfectly into that type of mentality.
We have become atrophied in a political and cultural sense, I truly don't have an answer on how to fix this problem.
It's no wonder why countries like China keep such a firm stranglehold on internet media and online discourse.