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What happened?

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Democracy

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Far right parties gaining significant popularity especially in France and Germany. It’s not great for the neo-liberal centre who created and perpetuated the economic downturn we’re all in and indicates a failure of the left to present a coherent alternative. There’s a lot to unpack about it. France has already dissolved their parliament and triggered an election because of these results.

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Eh, I wouldn’t say its a failure of “the left.” The problem is that American style neoliberalism has become the only game in town and any minor deviation is seen as dangerous extremism. Its easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.

Neo classical economics is simply “economics” or even worse “just basic economics” now. Every major media outlet going has been captured or compromised. Social media is bought and paid for by the same interests too. I mean, there’s some pockets of resistance here and there but the ultra wealthy control all the narratives.

To me, blaming “the left” for that and calling their resistancea failure is just bizarre. Its not like the narrative has changed or is remotely hard to comprehend. Its just that people like being told what they want to hear; that they were right all along.

They clearly prefer to be told its all those damn foreigners faults and that looking up is a waste of time.

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American style neoliberalism has become the only game in town and any minor deviation is seen as dangerous extremism. Its easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.

I’m just gonna leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism

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I totally agree that neoliberal economics are essentially what we understand to be economics now. To be clear, I’m not blaming the left, I think it’s a case of they have a more difficult message to convey. To explain the problems that neoliberal economics has and to propose a solution to them is a really hard task compared with “it’s the foreigners at fault”. It’s a much clearer, more concise and seemingly solvable problem compared with “we need to overhaul the global economy”.

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Its easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.

Damn… it’s wild how true this is

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It’s not great for the neo-liberal centre who created and perpetuated the economic downturn we’re all in and indicates a failure of the left to present a coherent alternative

Without intending to disagree with this statement, how is voting far-right a better proposition regarding the economy?

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So I didn’t make a statement about that. I’m making a statement about what these results might tell us, admittedly in a very simplistic way.

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It’s not great for the neo-liberal centre

Neoliberals love fascism… why wouldn’t this be great for them?

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Yes, yes… On est dans la merde !

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Netherlands also going great. At least the xenophobes hate Europe so much they don’t bother showing up for European elections to simply say they want less foreigners.

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I also saw the turnout polls for the Dutch vote. It was interesting to see that the portion of people who voted progressive in the last national elections and didn’t show up for the EU elections is smaller than the portion that voted fascist/populist.

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Netherlands actually didn’t change much. PVV got +5, but FvD (a worse PVV) lost 4. And the VVD (where Wilders came from originally) also lost 1, so it kinda cancels out. Same goes for the left parties which went from 9 to 8, but that seat went to a progressive center party.

Overall very little has shifted here. And it seems at the European level the same coalition will continue too.

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I don’t know yet but I saw “Polexit” on the Polish ballot and didn’t know if I should laugh or fucking cry

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Love how people look at GB, see their much bigger economy, see the results of Brexit and be like: Bro, I think we would do better.

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Hey maybe we can have a clusterfuck of our very own!

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Oh it would not be Polexit. There are way better names available than that. Polout, for example.

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Polend

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Polaaaand it’s gone.

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That would require more creativity than the people behind “polexit” have

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The slogan could be:
Now, the only legal contraceptive.

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Poles out for Harambe

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Poleave

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