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The Alt-Wrong have got themselves an Anti-Greta by the name of Naomi Seibt.
The 19-year-old German is a Climate Change Denier and Islamophobe. She is also apparently a member of and speaks to the far-right Alternative für Deutschland, an organisation associated with Brexit's very own Nigel Farage.
Apparently Seibt will be addressing the conservative CPAC this week in the USA along side Trump and Pence.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @05:24AM (1 child)
If this is a genuine question, the answer is very simple.
Germany tried to impose some sort of new radical neo-liberalism on the people. Newton's Third applies as well to politics as to physics! For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. And this isn't something new. Know one of the things that precipitated the Nazis? It was just a bunch of far-left radicals taking over the government of Bavaria in Germany creating the very short-lived 'Bavarian Soviet Republic'. [wikipedia.org] It gave people a legitimate reason to fear the far left, and is also part of where the Jew thing came from since the leadership, who rapidly turned to a reign of terror, were primarily Jewish. Had those folks not overthrown Bavaria (let alone another group, again heavily comprised of Jews, revolting [wikipedia.org] while Germany was in the middle of a war) it's highly likely that the Nazis would never have been able to come into power.
Actually I'd say Newton's Third is not quite accurate here. Because the opposite reaction does not tend to be equal in power, but more powerful. I think this is the reason our political cycles also move on about 20 year windows:
- Raging 20s
- Warring 40s
- Civil Rights 60s
- Corporate Christian 80s
- Identity politic 2000s
- ?? 2020s
Of course that types 2 decades into in a fairly limited way, but I think it is nonetheless reasonable. When one looks at history every other 20 years seems to have been a somewhat more logical continuation of what happened 20 years ago, than what had immediately happened. E.g. - imagine that 1920 was followed by 1960 was followed by 2000. Or that 1940 was followed by 1980 was followed by whatever we're going to be entering into over the next 20 years. Makes so much more sense in terms of cohesion and continuitiy. Anyhow, the same issue is in play. One ideology gains power and then starts to go batshit in one direction until they are gradually overcome by the opposite ideology. The opposite side starts out relatively centrist, but then they too invariably start to grow batshit until they're gradually overcome - and the process repeats. The current swing of the United States, and the world, rightward is predictable by anybody who's observed this trend.
Only way this will ever end is for one side, or the other, to take power - but not go batshit extreme. Such is the nature of politics that this is probably impossible, though.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday February 27 2020, @05:43AM
> - ?? 2020s
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