@b870d4c8 oh no I didn't mean it as a correction more a comment.
Where I live we still have survivors from the 2nd world war who are split on weither they supported Facism or not. A few, but it's had an effect.
The vote tends to be high for right wing candidates and when I say right wing, I mean extremely right wing.
The UK where I'm from originally also had quite a few powerful influences that are fascist leaning.
They never left, just rebranded and played into Eurosceptisim.
@b870d4c8 but I've always seen Facism and the far right as like the Hydra in Greek mythology.
The last head of the Hydra was immortal, so there always was a danger the Hydra could come back and poison Lerna again.
Which is what is happening now, the far right are always waiting to poison our democratic processes.
@5fc1f656 yes, and in terms of politics that immortal hydra head is nationalism, which is always a huge part of even the most liberal countries.
@5fc1f656 ok thank you.
@b870d4c8 but I've been where you are, watching in horror.
It was a shock, watching the UK descend into what it is now. But the thing I hadn't realised was the attitude and acceptance of the far right had always been there.
They just got permission to be more open about it.
@5fc1f656 yes, the far-right are not powerful because they are some alien force, but rather because they are also saying the quiet part loud.
@5fc1f656 @b870d4c8 I’ve been yelling for decades now about how there is a certain red line that should not be crossed in political discourse because it always lead to bad things.
That line is talking about other humans as though they’re less than human. “Parasites” and so on.
I blame the edgelord internet “free speech” brigade, now personified by Elon Musk, who were weaponized to get Trump elected and normalized, that attitude in the real world.
Kindness is dead.
@5fc1f656 @b870d4c8 I honestly thought that virulent racism had died out in the UK, some time in the late 80s or early 90s when I stopped seeing racial slurs and “NF” graffitied on the London Underground. It was a major shock to see it all come back and get mainstreamed, albeit with a broader choice of targets.
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