I do worry that other middle- to high-income democracies tell themselves America is an aberration and they've merely got to develop independence from us to stabilize global geopolitics when many democracies' leading right-wing parties are 90-100% as crazy as the American version - ThreadSky

usspcrichardandson.bsky.social • 1 day ago

I do worry that other middle- to high-income democracies tell themselves America is an aberration and they've merely got to develop independence from us to stabilize global geopolitics when many democracies' leading right-wing parties are 90-100% as crazy as the American version

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roland00.bsky.social•1 day ago

/me watching the 2016 show Westworld during Oct 2016

taking the double draft of Jorge Luis Borges concepts of infinity especially per Grievance plus Knowledge with Lewis Carols Alice in Wonderland

**** !

roland00.bsky.social•1 day ago

and the real mind **** is realizing “are you real? the robot lady, and the robot who answers if you can’t tell does it matter?”

that is Elon Musks ex wife, the 2nd and 3rd one who divorced him in 2016, and help convinced him to buy twitter in 2021

**** !

markymarx69.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I don’t love that europe seems to want to re-militarize as a response to this. Especially seeing that they’re one bad election cycle away from the far right sweeping the continent

conjurial.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m not even sure they are as crazy as the Republicans: Just a couple weeks ago AfD underperformed its polls and didn’t get into the government, then responded by

1) accepting the results immediately and
2) not crying fraud

cyanescens.bsky.social•1 day ago

GOP was the same til Trump.* Shudder to think the far right/borderline-if-not-outright fascist German party is just waiting for a really charismatic leader to come along.

*they’d make noise about voter fraud every election, but usually not the party leaders & they wouldn’t *do* anything about it

tyron.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nahhh, the Republicans are really, really bad right now. It's not that there aren't echoes of it - the Tories in the UK have gone on a similar anti-rule of law/pro-executive fiat obsession bent - but there's a real anti-democratic, march thru institutions edge to the GOP right now.

waterloowellington.bsky.social•1 day ago

He isn't talking about the Tories. He is talking about the highest-polling UK party at the moment, i.e. the Reform Party.

mikebrady.bsky.social•1 day ago

Reform UK should be consigned to the dustbin of history.

keybyss.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think my growing theory of 21st century capitalism eating everyone’s livelihoods (housing, cost of living, climate change, etc,.) and giving similar scapegoats (i.e. immigrants) are why we’re seeing similar or the same bullshit worldwide.

andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'd thought this from the reverse direction of AfD, FN and others deciding the GOP were just personally incompetent and that "we can polish it up into a winning program if we just do better than they did", but this direction is likelier.

crispybanks.bsky.social•1 day ago

America’s biggest export is its culture, which includes exurban evangelical brain-rot.

jdr1992.bsky.social•1 day ago

Except this is starting to show up in very secular countries like the Netherlands, Austria, and France.
Instead, it’s more the result of globalization and conservative economic policies making life unbearable for the working class, and the globalist oligarchs using xenophobia to scapegoat others.

snarkhunt.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Yes. Trump will make Europe great again (MEGA), perhaps greater than he want's to have it. We needed his heads-up. But I think that we'll do that in Slavoj Žižek's way and not in Elon Musk's way.

billkw.bsky.social•1 day ago

They don't have our trash constitution, but many also don't have real control of their currency, so their establishments continue to flail in face of crises.

billycharlebois.bsky.social•1 day ago

But in multiparty systems very rarely get into any power and are much easier to remove. This is US crazy. Yes the right is alive, but to pretend it’s ascendant is just giving it undeserved air.

goldtrashcan.bsky.social•1 day ago

A big part of our problem (which appears unique to me) is that our system, fueled by corrupt federal jurisprudence, incentivizes a political-industrial complex which is able to legally raise far too much money and has far too much influence over elected officials

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/john-dingell-how-restore-faith-government/577222/

niral.bsky.social•1 day ago

maybe we’ll be a cautionary tale, especially if the economic devastation outweighs the nativism and white supremacy.

Tradeoffs, ya know?

nanzhounoodles.bsky.social•1 day ago

America's right wing is an outlier on climate change denial and that's about it.

crunchypeanut.bsky.social•1 day ago

Honestly the silver lining for a lot of this: it's bad enough I think it's going to create a lot of political will to create institutions to guard against things getting this bad again

usspcrichardandson.bsky.social•1 day ago

yes, America can do far more damage than anyone else, but look at Bolsonaro or Milei or Le Pen or Farage or AfD and tell me there isn't a global problem

feedmycrave.bsky.social•1 day ago

They all get their money from USA and Russia.

usspcrichardandson.bsky.social•1 day ago

Reform UK is currently leading in the polls, the cordon sanitaire around FN has withered away and is beginning to weaken around AfD, Bolsonaro and Milei fucking won outright, this is pure cope

absolutely-not.bsky.social•1 day ago

standing up for brazil on this one because they positively polarized me

usspcrichardandson.bsky.social•1 day ago

Brazil had the healthy response we lacked, but Bolsonaro still got into power in the first place and it's not like we didn't know he was bad before he was elected

absolutely-not.bsky.social•1 day ago

they're doing great and i'm proud of them, new zealand is a better example

maiamindel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Milei bear hugging Trump is going to be the end of him

usspcrichardandson.bsky.social•1 day ago

thank God a good number of far-right politicians are stupid enough to bear-hug other countries' far-right politicians, who are inevitably about as unpopular as they are known in other countries—and the whole world knows who the American president is so bear-hugging him when he's gone fash is lunacy

uplift17.bsky.social•1 day ago

Macron's speech today was about a pan-European defense initiative led by the French and like my guy that only lasts so long as the FN is out of office which is extremely not guaranteed

gothamgirlblue.com•1 day ago

The lie that parliamentary systems are more stable and more easily defended against fascism is one that so many people desperately want to believe and I don’t get why

keybyss.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean, I could GET why. What other options are there when even the “safer” options aren’t enough?

It’s just a shame that THAT combined with actual significant social safety nets (like universal healthcare and decent public schooling) aren’t even enough anymore.

sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social•1 day ago

“This one simple trick can fix your American democracy using a thing commonly found in other countries.“

rev-avocado.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean France, Brazil, and Argentina are all presidential regimes

gothamgirlblue.com•1 day ago

Britain and Israel are parliamentary, and Italy elected a fascist years ago

rev-avocado.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean I don't think Israel's problem is its electoral system.

azery.bsky.social•1 day ago

Britain has FPTP which is actually the main problem over here. It allows you to get absurd majorities on low vote totals; effectively enforcing minotorian rule

speedrunwat.bsky.social•1 day ago

Uh, Meloni is not a fascist.

conjurial.bsky.social•1 day ago

More robust against constitutional crises and resulting military dictatorship though

This is a Juan Linz stan account

tyron.bsky.social•1 day ago

Reform UK ain't winning a general election any time soon.

tyranitar14.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also Meloni in Italy, Orban in Hungary, and the fascist party in Austria won a plurality of votes in the last election but didn’t wind up in the majority because 3 of the other parties formed a majority coalition without them

billycharlebois.bsky.social•1 day ago

And yet each of them are a minority. And when they got in power have adopted mostly traditional conservative mandates ala Italy. Any polling done before Trump is an aberration as for example Canadian conservatives were headed to a majority and now are barley hanging on.

harrybeary.bsky.social•1 day ago

The attacks on LGBT people by Meloni are different from what Berlusconi did when he was in power. Same with the fulsome attacks on trans people by Poilievre compared to Harper.

billycharlebois.bsky.social•1 day ago

Both unfair but nowhere near as intense or as crazy as Trump/Vance.

usspcrichardandson.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bolsonaro did his own January 6 and Milei is doing shock therapy to his own country's economy

conjurial.bsky.social•1 day ago

In fairness I mean Argentina did kinda need that

80% inflation is no joke

jesseewiak.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, obviously I wouldn't vote for Millei but even I an ardent social democrat would be anti-Peronist if I lived in Argentina.

billycharlebois.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes the great European nations of Argentina and Brazil with absolutely NO HISTORY of right wing politics.

usspcrichardandson.bsky.social•1 day ago

I said "other middle- and high-income democracies," I did not limit my statements to Europe. but also, Reform UK is leading in the polls and Macron has mainstreamed FN

alangrofield.bsky.social•1 day ago

Orban and Netanyahu have been in power so long this guy doesn’t think of them as ascendant but the US is just one of the middle dominoes here

various-threnodies.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think unfortunately we are just living in the "touch the stove" era, and voters are going to need to learn that all these parties are morons who can't govern effectively by touching the stove directly

cookedazuredemon.bsky.social•1 day ago

They all know final destination but can't give up the money

organizingpower.bsky.social•1 day ago

Difference is most of those countries have parliamentary systems without first-past-the-post elections. Very hard for those far-right parties to take power and, even if they do, there is far less power to wield.

grainnecuuisce.bsky.social•1 day ago

Every single capitalist country in the world is gonna get hit with this shit, it's only a matter of time.

various-threnodies.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hopefully us imploding may serve as a salutary example for what happens when you elect the far right morons

rattatatouille.bsky.social•1 day ago

one just has to look at South Korea, or how AfD got the second-highest number of votes in the latest German election.

northeasternblot.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's kinda something that people aren't factoring in South Korea or FPÖ in Austria or PVV in the Netherlands. The far right is benefitting from the decline in civic virtue everywhere. The question is what the cause is. Social media? The gig economy? Decline in religion?

rattatatouille.bsky.social•1 day ago

Maybe all of the above? Social media amplifies outliers and negative emotions, gig economy causes a lack of life security, decline of religion and other cultural unifiers creates a divided society where nobody can agree on what *is* right.

cmorr0w.bsky.social•21 hours ago

You seem to have forgotten to write “RETVRN” at the end of this post

nickforbrains.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah

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