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Bad headline: Covid didn't do that, grifters exploiting covid did that.

The saying "never let a good crisis go to waste" applies here.

In times of crisis, such as a pandemic, people are looking for reassurance, people to blame, or both. That's the ideal time for grifters to swindle them, whether for money, power, political support or more than one of the above.

Fascism has always risen from times of intense hardship and ineffective to nonexistent opposition to disinformation and those that spread it.

From Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler in the first half of the 20th century, to Orban, Putin, and Trump today, that's how you get fascism.

So education pushes people left and sickness pushes people right?

Couldn't read the whole article, but it's interesting how politics even outside the US has tainted science to also be not worthy of trust. The science was never the question, only how it was manipulated to tell a different narrative for the current people in power. Masks are a perfect example. There are still people who question someone wearing a mask or its effectiveness because for some reason a politician told them it was pointless, even though plenty of actual research shows reality. Even just common sense will tell you that something is better than nothing, yet the cult following fools some to not even believe their own gut feelings or eyes. Orwellian.

its because they all the time to listen to joe roegan and become engaged on X thats why.

The writers and journalists putting this piece together always write it from the point of view that right wing parties and movements just magically come out of the woodwork and start spreading on their own accord as if it's some sort of seasonal or cyclical trend.

Right wing rhetoric, movements and groups are funded by money. Every political movement only grows through the use of money ... the more a group has of it, the stronger they can become, the louder their message and the bigger their movement.

There are lots of left leaning people and movements and they probably outnumber far right extremists. But you know what the difference between the two groups are? MONEY .... Right wing extremists have a habit of appearing in national headlines. Left wingers barely ever get the media spotlight other than to be painted as protesters who have no support.

Conservatives enjoy funding far right movements because it is part of a idea of the Overton Window ... if you shift the conversation too far to one end of the political spectrum, then you can shift everyone into that direction. No one will accept far right extremists but if you allow them to join the conversation and make them acceptable, then everyone can take one step to the right and now everyone in the left and far left start to look more and more like far left extremists.

Political movements don't come out of thin air ... they are constantly being pumped, primed and sponsored by wealthy benefactors who can move money around in the most discreet ways in order to make the world move in the ways that they want.

I called it in 2020 to my therapist. I linked the flu pan to the rise of fascism and theorized that major catastrophic events plus fear may lead to something similar now. Least glad I've ever been about being right on anything.