Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Are Europeans Really Becoming More Right-Wing?" video.

  1. Right wing per se doesn't worry me, as well as regular conservatism... I'm more of a centrist myself, perhaps center left, so I think there is space for discussion for everything. So, discussions around illegal immigration isn't a problem for me, and leaving or staying in EU isn't a discussion I'm having as I don't live in an EU country anyways, and even then I think that's up for discussion for countries that are. Brexit should serve as more than a lesson for all involved I guess. Even leaving EU I don't think is impossible or a huge issue, as long as it's done with a plan and a reason for it - which wasn't the case for Brexit. The real problem with far right and fascism though is not that. It's clinging to power, being a corrupt government, and then having an extremist speech that leans towards hatred, FUD and fake news. That's the main issue. If the government does not have those types of strategies at hand, I don't even consider it far-right. So, the key word perhaps is radicalization. The propaganda, which uses sensationalism and fake news to demonize opposition is the problem in itself. Like the use of terms such as "woke-ism", "communism", plus a bunch of nonsensical terms (I mean, that are co-opted in a nonsensical manner) that means nothing and is only used to inflame followers against some invisible unknown enemy - that's a problem for me. It's this use of the crudest psychological warfare schemes that worries me. It's also fair to note, I guess, that there is a huge difference between making liberal propaganda, and acting on it. For instance, the previous administration in my country said, particularly on election period, that it was for the poor hard working class, that it was for equality, that it was for progress, that their policy was to finally elevate the status of the nation, that it wanted to eliminate corruption in politics and crime in the country - but what it actually did during it's term was to actively pass policies against minorities and poor people, elevate several politicians into the super rich class because of the mountain of corruption schemes they went for, sellout for nothing a whole ton of public companies with deals with several politicians enriched themselves with, elevating corruption to a whole other level, and crime rates skyrocketed because of the dumb policy of flooding the country with more and more firearms. The other side that might sometimes be linked to far right that also worries me is religious extremism, which we can observe in US. Down here the previous administration also had that side. I think all democracies worth anything needs to be secular, it's a pillar of democracy, you cannot have a dominating religion serving as basis to force their opinions upon everyone else. It's not about being anti-religion, it's about being respectful towards a diverse population, and basing politics on common grounds, not on the imposition of the precepts of this or that religion. To make things worse, of course, it had to be a religion with tons of leaders that enrich themselves by taking money from the poor. People with no morals using faith to steal money from those who need it the most. So of course it will only add to corruption in politics. I dunno how much people associate those things to far right specifically, but that's the main issue I have with right wing politics that employs that sort of thing to take and remain in power. Politics itself, conservative and right wing, people can deal with it by being simple opposition. Even with a right wing government in power society can take a progressive stance and work against it. Of course it's better if there is government support, but all these progressive agendas, minority equality, green economy, diversity acceptance, opening up for immigration... those can still be done by society itself. It's when it becomes extreme, radicalized, authoritarian, corrupt and criminal that it becomes a problem. Well, that's for myself... of course other classes of people will have more pressing reasons to be against right wing politics. Minorities in particular, it's an existencial problem. As for green policies, environmental policies, I think it's more or less like this. Left wing or right wing, because of capitalism itself and how most nations work today, we just won't be able to do much. You can be as right wing or left wing as you want, it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. I have come to accept that the world will have to face the worst consequences imaginable to realize how radical the transformation really needs to be. We're already well on our way. I don't think many people in the northern hemisphere realizes this, but while you were complaining about record high temperatures up there, we on the southern hemisphere were facing summer like temperatures and climate - all winter long. We had record high temperatures - in the middle of winter. That's how warped climate is already becoming. Thing is, independent on what posture we take today, we will still probably face several decades of consequences. We will continue facing an increasing number of bad consequences from Climate Change, period. Because there is an accumulation effect that has been going on since the Industrial Revolution era. It's not just let's go renewable and hurray. If we were to really reverse Climate Change we'd need to be sucking out greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, and we can't even start reducing emissions. Scratch that, we can't even stop the acceleration of greenhouse gas production. So, perhaps if we changed things drastically today, perhaps humanity would be able to survive the next decades of increasing Climate Change consequences. Perhaps not. Changing today is a bet on that. But we probably won't. We became too dependent on all the things that generates massive amounts of greenhouse gases. And this is independent from politics. And of course, as all things are interconnected, expect the problem of immigration to get increasingly worse over the years. Things will get so bad that eventually countries will either start accepting immigrants en masse, or we'll either have war-like massacres everyday, or we'll have de-facto wars over it. Because huge portions of the planet will become uninhabitable overtime, slowly, in increasing urgency and damages, and people will need to escape somewhere. There you go, my doomer comment of the day. I'll probably be dead when the worst of those things happen, but that's what we're leaving for our children.
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