I think you have a point and I have no doubt that a goodly number of people voting for these parties do so in the vain hope that the destructive power of global capitalism will be addressed and their communities will benefit. 1/
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But I think you're wrong about the motivations of the parties themselves, or at least the movers and shakers amongst them. Sure they have concerns about global capitalism, but it revolves more around what little ethics it still has left than workers and communities. 2/
They resent the residual taxation that countries are managing to extract, the environmental rules imposed on them, the anti-corruption frameworks they have to work within. Unfair, they cry. It's government overreach. 3/
What they claim to want is true global capitalism, gloves off, red in tooth and claw, though only if that results in them being the ones to make it to the top. They don't want a well-regulated level playing field, they want one that's tipped in their favour. Fiefdoms, not communities. 4/
Having said that, they're more than happy to use the impacts of global capitalism on left behind communities as leverage points to get elected. And to use all the racist and nationalist dog whistles to get there. Look at Trump. He talks about workers and attracting jobs back to the US… 5/
…but virtually every policy change he makes will have the opposite effect. Farage is the same. These petty kings and wannabe aristos masquerade as 'men of the people' while taking handouts from and giving hand outs to their billionaire friends. 6/
Very few of them (mostly just the scary white nationalists) actually give a damn about immigration, but they're happy to jump on the bandwagon if it's steering the ship their way. 7/
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