Yeah, personally I think that something that’s playing a big part in the rise of the right wing is that the current powers that be seem to be completely spineless. And happy to make certain institutions like the EU or even UN look like a bit of a joke or hypocrites. The longer they keep Hungary around making the ‘values’ of the EU look like they’re just suggestions, the harder it is to convince some podcast hooked kid not to support and vote for the people that want to tear the whole thing down.

And the same goes for Palestine, as contentious as the issue is. When the whole culture that you’ve cultivated back home for the last couple of decades is one of tolerance and peace and justice, then not only sit back and let something like the Palestine situation happen but start threatening and deporting the children that you taught to care for speaking out about it, then why should anyone believe a word you say anymore. Especially young people who are looking for something to believe in.

Our leaders fucking suck across the globe, actually. Just carrying on like it’s just another day and the idiots aren’t slowly taking over.

Wake me up when something gets done about it other than a fine that amounts to about half a day’s profit for them.

I think that the rest of us all around the world need to watch ourselves instead of continuously pointing and laughing at the USA. The far right is doing pretty well in Europe, even in Germany. And I’m sure there’s there’s more than one house where you’ll find grandpa or great grandpa’s nazi uniform still in storage, seeing as that was still less than 100 years ago.

We’ve all got the racist uncle. That was something to also joke about in the USA not long ago until all the racist uncles got together and were joined by the racist parents and sons and daughters.

None of us is currently safe from the christian nationalist hatemongers taking over because the christian nationalist hatemongers walk among us in even bigger numbers than we previously thought.