The Entire Planet Is Turning Far Right — And It Might Not Stop
This Is Becoming a Far Right Planet — And We Should All Be Very Worried, Because the 1930’s Are Repeating Themselves
A few years ago, you might have thought to yourself — ah, this is going to be one of those times. A far right wave will sweep across the world, and then it will ebb. It happens, from time to time. Batten down the hatches and wait for the storm to pass. But something very different appears to be happening.
Hence, for quite some time now, I’d bet that many of us have been…waiting. For the pendulum to swing back the other way. As it so often has. The pendulum of politics. We’ve been waiting patiently for people to come back to their senses. It’s just a phase, we’ve told ourselves. Sooner or later, this will pass, the way that our polities and societies have swung harder and harder to the far right.
Only it’s not passing.
From East to West, North to South, what defines our planet today is that it’s a far right planet. This trend doesn’t seem to be a wave. It shows no signs of ebbing or abating. It seems to be a long-run change, a tectonic shift. And that is a chilling thought. It means that the pendulum might not swing back…at all.
I shouldn’t have to give you many examples, but let me take a moment anyways, beginning with some you don’t even suspect or may not have even heard of.
Brits and Australians are nationalistic people to the core, who think of themselves as democratic — and yet they’ve led the world in essentially human trafficking refugees to poor countries in breach of international law. Britain’s PM broke his own lockdown laws…and Australia’s is a climate change denier. Yet both of their parties appear to be in power for life. Brits are in such dire straits that people can’t afford to heat their homes. They call it a “cost of living crisis,” but it’s really just a crisis of political mismanagement.
Britain and Australia illustrate one of the ways in which this is becoming a far right wing planet. There are no political consequences, at least for the hard right. In Britain, a decade and more of ultra right wing rule have plunged people into crisis — even its own…
