Levka on Nostr: #PostElection "In response to the election, a significant number of people on social ...
#PostElection
"In response to the election, a significant number of people on social media and elsewhere have expressed some form of this sentiment: a lot of voters are going to get what they asked for and learn some hard lessons about their own interests. While one can always hope, recent history shows that these lessons are likely to go unlearned. In fact, not only are these lessons unlikely to be learned, but without significant interventions, the myopathy of many middle- and working-class voters is only likely to grow more pronounced as we descend into what I call the fascist death spiral of right wing populism.
Here’s how it works . . ."
https://religiondispatches.org/even-if-voters-get-what-they-asked-for-its-more-likely-to-cause-a-fascist-death-spiral-than-a-lesson-learned/
"In response to the election, a significant number of people on social media and elsewhere have expressed some form of this sentiment: a lot of voters are going to get what they asked for and learn some hard lessons about their own interests. While one can always hope, recent history shows that these lessons are likely to go unlearned. In fact, not only are these lessons unlikely to be learned, but without significant interventions, the myopathy of many middle- and working-class voters is only likely to grow more pronounced as we descend into what I call the fascist death spiral of right wing populism.
Here’s how it works . . ."
https://religiondispatches.org/even-if-voters-get-what-they-asked-for-its-more-likely-to-cause-a-fascist-death-spiral-than-a-lesson-learned/