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Originally Posted by belsarius
The problem I have with the whole thing, is that 10 years ago the WEF was viewed as a conservative entity, endorsing neoliberal values, playing to the market economy and supported by top right wingers, including Harper.
They haven't changed much on the whole, but have had new voices added which is taking things like climate change and things like the wealth gap seriously. Not because they are altruistic, but because the top free market minds see them as very real threats to the economy.
But the right needs a target, they always do. So Trump took up the mantle of lets focus on those guys (mostly because they represent the main stream values of free market economics) so I can give people to be angry at something else.
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I find it interesting that the same wingnuts who are wont to believe that the WEF is a cabal of (Jewish...?) robber barons who run a child pedophilia ring and siphon off their adrenochrome—or whatever it is exactly that they believe, it's hard to keep track/give a ####—are the same people who believe Russian propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine and can't see Vladimir Putin for the despot he is. It wasn't long ago that Putin and the Russians in general were seen by the right as mortal enemies. Now they're best buds.