The right wins because it can offer real and actionable alternatives to the status quo. Those alternatives are even worse than what they’re trying to replace, but it’s still possible to get people to believe in them. Meanwhile almost nobody who doesn’t directly profit from the working class’s suffering believes in the status quo, and for good reason. So how do we stop it? Provide alternatives to the status quo from the left, and be willing to fight for them. The workers only get what they want when they’re willing to shut the country down to get it, but modern leftwing politicians don’t really have it in them, so people flock to the right instead.
By using the internet the way they do. Fascists love new, unregulated media where they can exploit media illiterates. In the meanwhile the only effective things we can do is holding against their rhetoric and spam the mainstream media with leftwing populism that‘s just as brainless.
Bullshit and half truths are 10 times faster to produce than well researched arguments. You can’t win a war if your enemy moves 10 times faster than you so you have to use their ways to beat them or you will die in agony.
Up until recently I hesitated to use populism because it goes against everything I believe in but we will lose this war if we‘re too afraid to get our fingertips a little dirty by playing dirty.
Speaking of using your enemy‘s ways to beat them: The governor of California is a Democrat who practices gerrymandering in the open and gets applauded for it. All Democrats should do it. Not that the Democrats are actually left or anything but the point is it‘s better to win dirty than losing against cheaters. And only if it becomes a problem for both parties will Republicans be willing to join the negotiating table and regulate it together eventually.
The same goes for social media. Only when it becomes a problem for both sides will governments figure something out. After WW2 most of Europe implemented very good regulations for a healthy media landscape but they never applied it to the internet. I think that‘s how we got here for the most part.
Now we are damned to use populist’s weapons to beat them. And I‘m not saying „Go out there, spread lies.“ But exaggerate, meme them, give them names and labels. Walking the streets isn‘t how right wing extremism rose so forget about that. This war is digital for the most part so film them when they do evil in the open and post it. We have to make ourselves visible if we want to be taken seriously. The masses want to see a show so give them one.
Not another one. How do we stop right wing populism?
The right wins because it can offer real and actionable alternatives to the status quo. Those alternatives are even worse than what they’re trying to replace, but it’s still possible to get people to believe in them. Meanwhile almost nobody who doesn’t directly profit from the working class’s suffering believes in the status quo, and for good reason. So how do we stop it? Provide alternatives to the status quo from the left, and be willing to fight for them. The workers only get what they want when they’re willing to shut the country down to get it, but modern leftwing politicians don’t really have it in them, so people flock to the right instead.
By using the internet the way they do. Fascists love new, unregulated media where they can exploit media illiterates. In the meanwhile the only effective things we can do is holding against their rhetoric and spam the mainstream media with leftwing populism that‘s just as brainless.
Bullshit and half truths are 10 times faster to produce than well researched arguments. You can’t win a war if your enemy moves 10 times faster than you so you have to use their ways to beat them or you will die in agony.
Up until recently I hesitated to use populism because it goes against everything I believe in but we will lose this war if we‘re too afraid to get our fingertips a little dirty by playing dirty.
Speaking of using your enemy‘s ways to beat them: The governor of California is a Democrat who practices gerrymandering in the open and gets applauded for it. All Democrats should do it. Not that the Democrats are actually left or anything but the point is it‘s better to win dirty than losing against cheaters. And only if it becomes a problem for both parties will Republicans be willing to join the negotiating table and regulate it together eventually.
The same goes for social media. Only when it becomes a problem for both sides will governments figure something out. After WW2 most of Europe implemented very good regulations for a healthy media landscape but they never applied it to the internet. I think that‘s how we got here for the most part.
Now we are damned to use populist’s weapons to beat them. And I‘m not saying „Go out there, spread lies.“ But exaggerate, meme them, give them names and labels. Walking the streets isn‘t how right wing extremism rose so forget about that. This war is digital for the most part so film them when they do evil in the open and post it. We have to make ourselves visible if we want to be taken seriously. The masses want to see a show so give them one.