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minus-squareZC3rr0r@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoAnd there goes another country to the Alt-right. It’s really disheartening to see a message like this continue to win elections globally. I get that people are worried their left and centre left governments have failed them, but why the pull to the opposite extreme? That’s like saying you want to put ExxonMobil in charge of combating climate change because Greenpeace hasn’t solved it yet.
minus-squareNoedel@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoWe’ve had like 20 years of right wing government and people responded by going more right. FML
And there goes another country to the Alt-right. It’s really disheartening to see a message like this continue to win elections globally.
I get that people are worried their left and centre left governments have failed them, but why the pull to the opposite extreme?
That’s like saying you want to put ExxonMobil in charge of combating climate change because Greenpeace hasn’t solved it yet.
We’ve had like 20 years of right wing government and people responded by going more right.
FML