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The most likely government to emerge - most analysts predict - will be a coalition including a hard-right nationalist party for the first time in Spain since the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.
More left-leaning Spaniards are frantically texting contacts, urging them to make sure to vote - despite the heat and it being holiday time for many - to “stop the fascists” in their tracks.The rhetoric this election season has been toxic, with voters becoming increasingly polarised.
It’s a fight over values, traditions and about what being Spanish should mean in 2023.
This kind of heated identity debate isn’t peculiar to Spain. Think of Italy, France, Brazil or the post-Trumpian debate in the US.
At EU HQ in Brussels, there are huge concerns about a resurgence of hard-right nationalist parties across Europe.
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Ribbit
I am getting tired of liberals (in the European sense, not the American sense) clutching their pearls at the resurgence of the fascist right when they did everything they could to kill off the socialist left everywhere in Europe. If you shift the Overton window so that your corporate neoliberal asses are the left side of it, what the fuck do you expect to be at its right side?
Pretty much what’s happening here in France. The majority sides with the hard right on a lot of decisions. It’s also happening in the EU parliament. We’re heading right towards very very hard times.
It’s like everyone in the rural areas wants to be a downtrodden peasant again. Not very French of them, if I’m being honest.
Haha yeah, us Americans did that nearly a century ago!
sad late-stage capitalism noises
India did that about 20 years back and for the past 9 years we’ve (mis)governed by violent right-wing Hindu supremacism. :(
the Communist holdout of Kerala is the only state in India where the BJP does not have a foothold.
What?! But according to my extended family (Brahmins), Modi is great! /s
The Murdoch Infection Continues Apace
When you see presidents like Macron in France pushing an extremely unpopular retirement law through, bypassing congress, you are going to see more shit like this in more countries. Neoliberals have to understand their corporate romance is killing their platform when people are starving and working full-time. Fascism is only going to make things way worse.
This crap is hitting the whole world and it sucks. A bunch of old farts holding back progress because they think we should be acting like people who’ve been 6” under for decades. So dumb, regardless of country or culture.
People normally think fascism seizes power undemocratically. And it does. But first there are years of voters saying they want tyrants who will only hurt the bad people, never thinking that it could happen to them.
to be fair, quite often the fascists size power through democratic means, just refuse to give it up afterward
but didnt you see those Nazi unifoforms 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
/s
Real talk, Nazi had the drip. Too bad they were/are such intolerable cunts.
Hugo Boss
The far right vow to “Make Spain Great Again”.
…where have i heard this super nifty phrase before???
Oh yeah, lets march back to where they would pick you up in the middle of the night, handcuff, blindfold then chuck you off a cliff.
Great times.
As if our little town just didn’t lay to rest the remains of some such people less than a year ago.
Originally it comes from England, but yeah
The English Made America Great Again?
Or rather, Make England Great Again. It’s an old slogan, and it’s been used a lot.
Attention Spanish bigots, choosing fascism isn’t going to stop climate change or make your lives better.
