Everyday folks are rising up to resist immigration raids with whistles, car chases, and noisy protests. Revolution is in the air.
Everyday folks are rising up to resist immigration raids with whistles, car chases, and noisy protests. Revolution is in the air.
Meanwhile some mysterious, highly charismatic and intelligent stranger we never met nor talked about will magically appear and have a full set of perfect progressive values that everyone can agree on and yet have no qualms about using violence to achieve those values. We will have clear-cut borders and divides between the people who are opposed to the new regime and those mighty leftist warriors who always march-lockstep with whatever leader we elect.
In today’s western democracies leader cults and charismatic authoritarianism tends to cluster on the right, not the left, despite what the “both sides!” people want to believe.
Donald Trump is the obvious endpoint of pseudopopulist anti-intellectual conservatism. Thankfully the US got there first, so we can all see where the conservatives around the world are headed.
I really wish that it would realistically serve as an international warning, but I’d be surprised if the scourge of weaponizing atomized worldviews and the attention-span erosion hasn’t seeped into every corner of the developed world. Corporations are the engine that drive this trend of fear mongering and authoritarian rule, and even if we see a bit of pushback here and there, they don’t recognize borders and see every nation as a ripe field to reap and have more patience and resources than any progressive group.