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Are you kidding me? Think of every maga you've seen with aggressive, hateful, pro-Trump anti-biden anti-immigration signs and such in their yards and on the back of their cars.
Every one of them with any kind of prior training and probably thousands upon thousands more without would punch their mother in the face for the chance to be given a badge and paycheck to get rid of brown people.
They are probably turning down 10x more people than they could even consider hiring.
The US is full of bigots and white supremacists, and it's more visible now than at any time in my nearly six decades of life.
I don't engage with them being outside the US but we do have a 'Maple MAGA' here which is similar.
Terrifying to hear that there are many in the US that are eager to do this type of work.
Yeah I've been a little surprised to hear that there are similar types up there, I don't know why - I suppose it's human nature.
What I've seen in recent years here has shaken and changed me.
Unfortunately, many Western countries are inching towards fascism due to failed neoloberal policies and rising antiimmigrant sentiment.
Canada and Australia were able to at least delay it in their most recent elections.
As an Australian, did you want to maybe speak for yourself there mate? We haven't experienced any major regressions of progressive policies or rights, and just saw our right wing of government shrink to a record low when they tried to import Trump's culture war schtick. Historically our right wing has actually been fairly moderate. It was a right-wing government that instituted aggressive gun control laws in the 1990s, and a right-wing government that (for better or worse) was in power when same-sex marriage was legalised in the 2010s.
If anything, Australia is literally the poster child for "How Not to Inch Towards Fascism" that other countries should aspire too.
Exclusionary and traditionalist politics are gaining steam in Australia as they are in the rest of the Western world. This election was no doubt a good outcome but, just like in Canada and the US, support for conservatism and far right politics is growing among young Australian men. This will become problematic in the next 10 to 15 years as historically this demographic inherits control of the institutions.
What concerns me the most is what happens when you heap climate refugees on top of this mess. The forecast doesn't look so great.