Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
[thread] politics, populism
* Culture wars, divisive rhetoric, political ideologies, populist memes are existential threats to humanity & civilization
* divide and conquer wedge strategy
* facilitate far-right tropes, electoral victories
* shroud campaigns devoid substantive policies, change
* rooted in concentration of wealth & pursuit of power, influence
#populism #CultureWars #FarRight #ChristianRight #GOP #neofascism #ideology
LeftyLabourTechToronto
@persagen @Geoffberner The trick is to build mass social movements such that regardless as to who is in power, they will back off. We need politicians who are afraid of the people.
A case in point. In Ontario Doug Ford backed off on over riding the constitution against education workers after being threatened with a #generalstrike
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
@leftylabourtech @Geoffberner
Regardless of who's in power, politics / economics in Canada are tightly interwoven. E.g. Trudeau / Jody Wilson-Raybould / SNC Lavalin fiasco. It's the same in provincial (B.C. politics) - NDP, whomever - all equally ineffectual, inept.
Edit: NDP performance, campaigning in last election or two - when most needed - shockingly inept.
LeftyLabourTechToronto
@Geoffberner @persagen I think we should be concerned about PP getting in power, but I also think that we should be concerned about JT shifting to the right. We are seeing that already whether it be in the economic and social sphere, or in the environmental sphere.
Geoff Berner
@leftylabourtech @persagen I'm less concerned about PP getting in power than all the compromises Trudeau will make to try to "neutralize" him by adopting more of his cruel ideas as policy. Because that's what centrists do.
LeftyLabourTechToronto
@persagen I honestly think that Canadians concerned about the rise of the PP Boy right-wing should learn from US historian Thomas Frank, who has studied populism, both real and fake, right back to the coining of the term in the 1890's.
We could avoid the kind of horrid politics south of the border that are now blowing north.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/thomas-frank-people-no-review/
LeftyLabourTechToronto
@persagen I wish people would stop referring to the far right as being somehow "populists". They are not. They are "fake populists". Genuine populism has its roots in 1890's Kansas in an early alliance of radical farmers and the early labour movement They called for the nationalization of the banks and the railroads among other things. The FAKE POPULISTS of the right use the culture war to rally the working class in support of a ruling class agenda. There is a difference.
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
Addendum 1
Almost half of Canadians living paycheque to paycheque, while support grows for Poilievre's Conservatives: poll
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/almost-half-of-canadians-living-paycheque-to-paycheque-while-support-grows-for-poilievre-s-conservatives-poll-1.6544243
Related thread:
[thread] Pierre Poilievre | Canada, far right, populism
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110970121516907014
#Canada #PierrePoilievre #populism #FarRight #ConspiracyTheories #CultureWars #ConservativeParty #neoconservatism
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
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[thread] politics, populism
Populism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism
* political stances emphasizing "the people"
* juxtaposes this group against "the elite"
* freq. associated w. anti-establishment & anti-political sentiment
https://persagen.com >> search: populism AND existential"
populism AND "culture war*"
#populism #CultureWars #FarRight #ChristianRight #GOP #neofascism #ideology
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