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Because no amount of blaming refugees, migrants, or trans people, or whichever other marginalised group they're currently kicking, will actually fix the socio-economic problems they've caused by Brexit and exacerbating a huge wealth disparity. You cannot "culture wars" yourself out of this kind of thing, unless the culture wars are about asking why the rich get richer while the poor and squeezed middle get poorer.

It should not take millions of people being plunged into poverty for the British public to realise that. People should have practiced solidarity and voted the Tories out when they started to enact racist, transphobic, bigoted policies. People should have questioned those beliefs in themselves, rather than electing politicians along similar lines.

But here we are now. Millions either freezing or starving, or both. Because the average Brit hates migrants, hates refugees, hates anyone different. The problem isn't so much the Tories - the Tories are a symptom. The problem is the majority of voters who keep re-electing the party that will inevitably destroy anyone who isn't rich, just because that party shares the same bigoted beliefs. Less bigotry in the average British mindset, and we wouldn't have reached this point.


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How it seems to be a problem in all of the West where the conservative right gone furious/populistic keeps attracting more and more people by presenting itself as an "anti-system" formation (conservatives of all parties) and blaming everything on scapegoats is infuriating. I've heard some really, really far gone idiots blame climate change on the Africans coming over and bringing the hot weather. I couldn't believe they were serious but they stood firm. I'm seeing tje trend all over Europe and obviously the US.
At this point I just don't know. If people are so willing to subscribe to these worldviews instead of doing the most basic thought process it's disheartening.
Then again it's not like the supposedly more progressive centrist parties have been doing much of anything against the dynamic that fucks everyone over and only accomodates the happy few, so obviously the distrust is warranted. Too bad the hate of the disgruntled settles on those even worse off than them instead of the leading figures that actually run them dry.

Sorry for the rant. XD I guess it's to vent a bit.

A usual step of the rightwing populist parties is to degrade the education system. So the average person doesn't aquire a good knowledge of history, critical thinking, an understanding of people who are different to themselves, and so on. You can see it in the push to ban books with diverse characters and progressive themes in America. You can see it in the degradation of British schools, where even the actual school building have decayed under the Tories.

Without a proper education, people are left having to re-learn all the relevant lessons the hard and personal way. Vote for fascists and wind up being a target is a very, very old lesson by now. Learning from history would have illustrated that clearly. But when curriculums are destroyed, books are banned, kids are too cold and hungry to absorb knowledge in classes, we're back to firsthand learning again.

I agree! I'd say only thing missing from your analysis is the influence of print and TV media. Obviously doesn't excuse people, and we've seen with the Palestine solidarity marches that people can and do defy a unified political-media consensus, but it's telling when polling shows 'immigration' or 'trans rights' or whatever distraction tracks with the urgency and frequency of print and talk show mentions of the topic.

Anyway, hope you're having a nice day, it's cool to have someone to vent with on here who has their head in the game.

Yeah. Large media orgs also owned by rich conservatives, plus an increasing number of people (young and old) who get their "news" and "analysis" from rightwing YouTube channels - all of that fuels ignorance.

The rise in crackpot conspiracy theorists plus dangerous anti-vaxxers who peddle information that is getting actual people killed - all of that also facilitated by social media platforms that won't moderate things properly. Toxic stew all round.

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