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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
Well the world is in a new gilded age, where the wealthiest 1% have more money than they ever have before and they are pushing more and more middle class families into poverty. Now those people are poor and angry, so when they see a political candidate mirror their anger at the current government they latch on, the actual policies behind that candidate don't matter. This is pretty much the same playbook for the rise of fascism in the early 20th century. Anger is easy, anger sells
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We're also seeing the "enlightened centrists/liberals" of the world align with neofascists to defeat leftist ideas, which is also pretty consistent with the history of the 20th century.