we're not so much casting a vote in favour of some party, but rather voting against establishment politicians and thence arriving at the far-right. Le Pen in France, Wilders in Holland, Farrage in the UK, Meloni in Italy, the AfP in Germany...and so on and so forth. Trump. yes, ugly, but many voters are fed up (and a lot poorer), so it's easy to manipulate them with what will turn out to be empty promises. even more ugly.
Yes - and that's the Establishment's trick of course, because all these far-right parties are also Establishment, they simply pretend not to be. The controlled opposition, in other words. Unfortunately the people don't generally realise that, so they genuine believe they are voting against the Establishment.
And you are right of course about manipulating people with empty promises. Although I've come to believe that, rather than simply having a controlled opposition that just contains the anti-Establishment vote, and never really gets anywhere in the polls, this time around they fully intend for these parties to actually start winning, in order to go full on right-wing fascism.
It's also true that one of their cunning plans is to allow these parties to pick up votes, so the main parties 'respond' by themselves moving further to the right to siphon off these populist voters. In other words, the entire strategy is to move everything to the right.
This suggests to me, as another afterthought, that 'they' have decided to go for the 1984 version of new world order, rather than the 'own nothing but be happy' Brave New World version. And that's not a pleasant thought...
absolutely. in the mean time, on a micro-level: trying to do the right thing and appreciating the important things in life, including friendships, home-cooking, humour and creativity. and so on. story-telling, very good too ;-))
we're not so much casting a vote in favour of some party, but rather voting against establishment politicians and thence arriving at the far-right. Le Pen in France, Wilders in Holland, Farrage in the UK, Meloni in Italy, the AfP in Germany...and so on and so forth. Trump. yes, ugly, but many voters are fed up (and a lot poorer), so it's easy to manipulate them with what will turn out to be empty promises. even more ugly.
Yes - and that's the Establishment's trick of course, because all these far-right parties are also Establishment, they simply pretend not to be. The controlled opposition, in other words. Unfortunately the people don't generally realise that, so they genuine believe they are voting against the Establishment.
And you are right of course about manipulating people with empty promises. Although I've come to believe that, rather than simply having a controlled opposition that just contains the anti-Establishment vote, and never really gets anywhere in the polls, this time around they fully intend for these parties to actually start winning, in order to go full on right-wing fascism.
It's also true that one of their cunning plans is to allow these parties to pick up votes, so the main parties 'respond' by themselves moving further to the right to siphon off these populist voters. In other words, the entire strategy is to move everything to the right.
This suggests to me, as another afterthought, that 'they' have decided to go for the 1984 version of new world order, rather than the 'own nothing but be happy' Brave New World version. And that's not a pleasant thought...
absolutely. in the mean time, on a micro-level: trying to do the right thing and appreciating the important things in life, including friendships, home-cooking, humour and creativity. and so on. story-telling, very good too ;-))
Now that's a lovely comment, that is!