zephyreksParty of Dutch anti-Islam populist Wilders to win most seats: Exit poll
And there goes another country to the Alt-right. It’s really disheartening to see a message like this continue to win elections globally.
I get that people are worried their left and centre left governments have failed them, but why the pull to the opposite extreme?
That’s like saying you want to put ExxonMobil in charge of combating climate change because Greenpeace hasn’t solved it yet.
We’ve had like 20 years of right wing government and people responded by going more right.
FML
That’s somehow worse and also surprising. I thought your previous governments were made of the worker’s party and the Christian centrist. A quick trip to Wikipedia thought me I should stay up to date on politics of I’m going to comment on it.
So that makes me wonder: Why go further right if people feel the ruling right part let them down?
Because of social media. If you open youtube in a private browser window your stream is filled with alt right desinformation. Same with tiktok. Somehow social media stockholmed the population into blaming the left while right parties have been fucking up the Netherlands the last 20 year with their neo-liberal skullfuckery.
One has to wonder if we wouldn’t be better off without social media. Sure, it’s done a lot of good in helping people connect and exchange ideas, but some of those people aren’t acting in good faith, and some of those ideas are just plain terrible.
I don’t claim to have the full solution, but it would be a great first step if the equivalent of a fairness doctrine were to be introduced to the algorithms these platforms use to weed out rampant misinformation.