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 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊   ( @OneRedFox@beehaw.org ) M to SocialismEnglish · 2 years ago

Far-Right Geert Wilders Won the Dutch Election Because the Establishment Indulged Him

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Far-Right Geert Wilders Won the Dutch Election Because the Establishment Indulged Him

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 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊   ( @OneRedFox@beehaw.org ) M to SocialismEnglish · 2 years ago
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While the election victory of Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders is being treated as a shock, his rise was long in the making. For years, mainstream conservatives have echoed his talking points — and now, they may well make him prime minister.
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  •  Blaubarschmann   ( @Blaubarschmann@feddit.de ) 
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    Same in Germany. Conservatives copy the right-wings’ and extremists’ topics and positions and feed the xenophobic narrative that turns the poor against the poorest. And then they are surprised when the fascists get more and more votes

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    Conservatives: destroys the economy

    Also conservatives: “It’s time we take back control of our own economy!”

    continues to further destroy the economy

    Rinse repeat

    •  Enitoni   ( @enitoni@beehaw.org ) 
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      Leftist party is voted in

      Conservatives: Look at how much the left has ruined the economy!!!

    •  intensely_human   ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) Banned
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      Did conservatives destroy the Dutch economy?

    •  FIash Mob #5678   ( @FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ) 
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      This argument would hold so much more weight with me if, when Obama had his supermajority, he’d have done something other than rewarding the rich assholes who crashed the economy.

      But he didn’t.

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        Obama was a liberal, not a leftist

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    It’s fucking embarrassing is what it is. Really looking forward to having to apologise for my openly racist and islamophobic prime minister for the coming 4 years just because people in my country love to sabotage the country.

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      Americans: “First time?”

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    Another reminder that most people dont understand what political ideology is and just votes randomly.

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    If anything, this is a call against complacency everywhere. Foolishness ignores man-made borders.

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    Well shit, I was kind of counting on this country. If my country went far right, I was thinking of maybe fleeing there. But I guess it’s gonna get a lot less trans friendly very soon.

    Judging by the directions things are going and the rate at which it’s all happening, I fear that soon there will be nowhere left to run…

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