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Over the past few years, especially since 2012 after the world did not end, we have all seen a massive surge of right wing politics. They range from your garden variety loons who deny the Holocaust or think the Earth is flat, to anti-feminists (not necessarily right wing by the way), but the main influx is the lower class, middle class support for free markets, neo-liberalism and concrete border controls that come with accompanying Islamophobia and antisemitism.

I have some theories and perspectives as to how this came to be, but I thought I would open up a thread for everyone to share their thoughts about how this all led to what I call the rise of the right.

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I think people like certainties, progression with teleology that is ordained, in other words, life has a clearly obvious goal we must head towards.

Humanism has this view, but we face challenges that must involve decentering man from the pedestal humanism put him in. 

Most of the people I see who are on the right these days have no time for anything that doesn’t involve the rigid certainties of life, work, earn, pay, us vs them. It’s a very simplistic view, an exclusive view.

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The rise of the right, as always, stems from rage and frustration. The words involved are no more than barks of agitated animals. It barely mstters what they say, see the Rebel without a cause thread which is actually about the same.

The rage in mankind can not be contained, it is a sublimated anxiety and hatred for life itself which even I know firsthand, but among less aware or honest people, it becomes a hatred of anything else, a hatred of the political correctness of the 90s, a hatred of the environmental concerns of the 80s, a hatred of being nice and tolerant and a rejection of everything. This is the age of smashing baby cherubs and taking out frustration on anything possible.

The sounds of the age are raging, explosions, whining music or highly discordant sounds. All this representing human frustration.

Why? It is because we have and were given so much false hope, so much technology to entice us, that the medieval hopelessness was washed away, we stopped for a moment thinking that we really are doomed, and felt a cocaine-like strength that we really could be doing something. Then we found out it wasn’t so, that we are still shackled and obstructed, and like any animal, this made us more angry than ever before, and so we lash out and what we lash out at also lashes out and the whole world is raging at its own lie it told itself one day when it was in a better mood.

Part of this was by giving us so much apparent speed and ability through the internet all of a sudden but findung we really can’t do much with it anyway.

We are still slaves, and whatever is around is what pays the price in the range of blind rage.

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