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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jun-2026 22:47:30 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   Nearly a quarter of voters in Europe now back far-right parties
   https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/24/nearly-quarter-votes-europe-now-cast-far-right-parties

   People are angry, and they have plenty of actual real reasons to be angry.

   Obviously authoritarian right does not have any real solutions, but the center and center-left parties had wasted decades on "keeping the hot water running" politics, so no wonder people are answering the siren call of far-right.

   I mean, look at UK. Labour won in a landslide! And then… milktoast, plus narrative drift to the right. 🤦♀️

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jun-2026 22:47:28 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     Instead of making concessions on human rights (including trans rights), immigration and refugees, and sprinkling it with vague promises about how AI will change everything, etc., centre and left parties should maybe actually get serious about:

     1. Solving the housing crisis (which is basically everywhere now).

     2. Healthcare.

     3. Taxing the rich.

     You know, things that are actually making people miserable and angry! And incidentally, things that keep polling high on voters' priority lists.

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jun-2026 22:47:29 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     Whenever you hear a center or left party talking how they need to drift to the right to "get the undecided voters", know that this is only enabling the far-right.

     If anyone is an "undecided" voter – meaning, potentially considers voting for the far-right – why on Earth would they ever vote for the milktoast centrist fake, instead of the real fascist deal?

     It allows the far-right to move the Overton window ever more right.

     This is not how you defeat authoritarianism:
     https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-not-to-defeat-authoritarianism/

     Steve's Place repeated this.