Comments by "" (@charliemoore2551) on "The far right is more popular than at any time since 1945. Why is that?" video.

Yes. Why can't we have pie In the sky like they used to have in the 1950s when everybody was poor and happy. I've seen a Peter and Jane book so I know it's true.
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@petermach8635 Funny - cos I remember it as a time of poverty, racism and rising debt. We didn't get our first family holiday until well into the 1960s. Our first refrigerator in 1967, telly in 68. What were your experiences of it, then?
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@petermach8635 It happened because both political parties were influenced by Keynes and Galbraith in preference to Hayek and Von Mises. Had the "wisdom" of the Mont Pelerin crew been followed, the 50s and 60s would not have very different to the 20s and 30s. It remains the case, that I wouldn't wish the period on my children or grandchildren.
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 @petermach8635 Something which wouldn't have happened without Keynes and Galbraith Influencing both political parties
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This is quite right and becoming urgent. The Labour/Tory/Liberal consensus has tried to appease racism and xenophobia as long as I can remember. They introduced racist immigration policies and talked about "real and justified fears" and the immigrant getting the "whip hand". But far from stealing the thunder of the Fascists, it just makes their views more respectable and here we are with 5 far-right MPs in the UK and Fascists like the AfD in Germany and National Rally in France becoming contenders for power.
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@daveisbrill Immigration isn't a problem. Racism is the problem. I agree about building more affordable housing though.
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@daveisbrill Even in London, non-whites are less than 50%. The overall figure elsewhere is about 14%. Why that should matter to anyone baffles me.
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@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. I suppose you can nit-pick and say it's specific to a certain era. There are quite a few historians who hide behind that one. I wonder why? Alternatively, you can live in the real world and recognise the fact that there's very little difference between the ideology of AfD and National Rally and that of Mussolini and Hitler.
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@Historia.Magistra.Vitae. Oh dear! You're one of those! In both replies here you are confusing what Hitler and Mussolini claimed to advocate with what they actually did. Anyone who takes Fascists of any era at their word completely misses the point about what Fascists actually are: Grifting opportunists who take power under whatever pretext happens to be available at the time. Mussolini's blackshirt thugs initially protected peasants from abusive landlords. Then they flip flopped and helped the landlords against the peasants. And Hitler didn't nationalise anything! Far from it. He re-privatised many of the enterprises that had been nationalised under Weimar. The word "Socialist" was slipped into the party name in order to undermine the left and for no other reason. You've swallowed the "Hitler was a Socialist" guff aimed at people who don't think things through.
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 @kellyeye7224 Said luxuries arrived in the 1960s. Yes. Times were getting better. They went from poverty in the 1950s to marginally better in the 1960s.
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