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Originally Posted by Muta
I'm still waiting for his response to this. I'm trying to figure out where wanton / extreme socialist and communist policies were taking over the international discourse. I'm pretty sure what he really means is 'woke' and 'renewable energy' and stuff like that - concepts that are only 'left' in people's minds because they need to be against it, probably, since it has been determined that it doesn't seem, for some weird reason, to fit into their own side's narrative.
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In Europe (as seen in France) and probably soon, Canada, the overwhelming issue causing the shift to the right is uncontrolled immigration. In the States, it could be argued that it's a combination of capitalism taking over traditionally public services, and religion, creating a rift in lived realities (extremism) and the destruction of the free press (the backbone of democracy).
edit : it could be argued that the right caused much of the issues pushing people to the right, but it's also the left, when in power, that continued the policies that exasperated the rift. They had no intention of killing personal cash cows, like the privatization of the judicial system. They didn't even increase the supreme court size to balance the ideological nutjobs Trump put in, let alone act quickly when they had the chance to load the supreme court themselves. There's a big list, and failure to act has pushed Americans to extremism, and the right has a bigger base to work from.