Mastodawn

Aral Balkan May 29, 2023

What’s happening in Turkey today is not some exotic oddity. It’s a forewarning of exactly what can (and is) happening in the West.

Does this timeline seem familiar?

1. Neoliberals get elected. They fill their coffers while alienating a whole swath of society who they deem too far beneath them to matter.

2. A religious fundamentalist arises who speaks to those marginalised people, telling them they’ve been wronged (they have) and that he will make it right.

3. He gets elected.

4. He stays.

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Mxhrad

@aral

Alternative to #1: Liberals get elected.

- The religious nuts and bigots don't like talk of equality and religious freedoms, extremism rises.

- Liberals (and the media) are happy enriching themselves and too afraid of rocking the boat to stop the fascists.

- By the time they realize it, half the population has been radicalized and the fascists are unstoppable.