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Yes, but that was a noun. This is a verb.

(As if fascists understand grammar)

Yeah right, if AfD had their way that guy and all his nephews would get picked up at the grocery store or at the park or on their way to work or in their own homes, and saying "but I work at the local döner shop!" isn't likely to help them much.

Then all the right-wingers would start complaining when the döner shops all start shutting down, like "Those damn foreigners are abandoning me right when I need my lunch! I knew they were good for nuthin!"

It's the fash-test way to gain power.

Apologies for the shitty pun. But only if it made you groan

You're absolutely right. But it is more a means of controlling anti-sentiments to gain votes and it works really well because they instill a fear into people that actually isn't real. I'm fucking scared of what will happen when they come into power. What I meant with my comment is that they hate anyone who isn't rich. A rich foreigner has nothing to fear as long as they play along. It's disgusting.

The paradox is that they'll blame taxation for being broke even if the actual reason is capitalism.

I reckon one major reason is that taxation is the visible part of your money being "stolen" whereas capitalists profiting off your labour is... well, potentially visible if it's a private company and the owner flaunts his wealth, but generally if it's a big publicly traded company, or a foreign multinational, etc, you need to be looking at the annual reports or something, because there's no real local boss taking all the profit.

Oh yes, that is the whole stupidity about it. They suffer from it, like we all do, and then they want more of it. But they need to be dragged towards leftist policies or they will drag us all into the abyss.

If everyone was intelligent, sure. But that's not how propaganda works, unfortunately...

Wealth inequality effects everyone and so it changes how everyone votes, but it also causes certain "answers" to that problem to become more popular or tolerable. So what we're seeing around the globe is the rise of the far right who are providing the "answer" that rising inequality and lowering standard of living is entirely the fault of immigrants, the loss of the "traditional family", and pretty much any "answer" except for useful ones. So no, this typically starts by driving people to the right as the right will most easily attempt to maintain the status quo at the expense of the scapegoat.

The follow on effect is the rise of the "radical" left which provides the answer "tax the ultra wealthy, invest in public infrastructure, and strengthen worker rights" - all things that reduce wealth inequality or increase the standard of living.

We're currently figuring out which side will win out in the long run or if the fundamentals will continue to not change and delay this issue further. For example Merz and the CDU in Germany making life better for the rich and worse for everyone else, delaying the inevitable decision of either the AFD winning or some party like Die Linke (hopefully) or Die Grüns winning. So Germans get to watch their lives get worse until they're ready to vote in parties with real positive change on their mind (or the opposite, real terrible changes like AFD).

Sure, a certain part, but if I look at my country or other democratic countries the right manages through their control of the media to convince a lot of people that it is the immigrants fault and we just need to be more xenophobic and then we will all be better off.

What planet are you even living on? Have you not seen the state of America? Remember Brexit? Why do you think fascists are surging in the polls everywhere? If a declining standard of living and quality of life created leftism out of thin air every developed economy would be on the verge of socialism in 2026.

Neoliberal/Conservative policies make the working class poorer and the rich richer, who use their capital to seize the means of democracy, kill competition, create monopolies, consolidate ownership of the media, etc and engage in wholesale propaganda aiming to divide and conquer the working class. The greatest threat to the Epstein classes wealth and power is a truly democratic government working "for the people", so they're promoting the same fascist populism everywhere to implement totalitarian dictatorship and remove the threat of democracy.

The uneducated moron who "doesn't do politics" is the easiest mark for fascism to con, because they can't see the incongruence; the patterns of lies, crimes, corruption, and psychopathy only learned from studying historic parallels.

It's an endless game of whack a mole if you silence specific parties. The only way to stop them is to improve people's material conditions so that fascism has no appeal.