It is not a coincidence that far right is rising in France after decades of school underfunding…

The left was never fully in power anywhere. You are talking about the liberal centrists

The left has never been in power and the left never has the backing of the billionaires.

The far right can grow because huge sums of money are being invested into them, with the expectation that the rich will benefit.

If the left got power they would go after billionaires and as such all efforts are made to discredit them and ensure they cannot get power.

You cannot reform the system and save it. It will simply do the same thing where the rich amass power and influence to undo the reforms over time as people get complacent. The only real solution is revolution.

"people just want to be less tired, have more money, and that’s PRECISELY what Le Pen and the rest of these fuckers promise."

Le Pen will deliver none of that. I don't buy it that so many voters are outright stupid, when we are talking about self interest. It is much more likely that most of her voters know what they will actually get with her, they are satisfied by her persecuting immigrants and ready to pay the price for that.

Socialism isn't that hard to market to the working class.

"We will bring democracy to the workplace, which is where you spend the majority of your waking life." (Marketing the idea of transforming all businesses into worker cooperatives in a way that's relatable and easy to understand for the layman)

"The government will have a universal safety net available for all who wish to use it, and that will include taking care of all basic necessities, including a universal basic income, shelter, utilities, education, and food."

"It's not your neighbor who has no money and no power who has been causing all of your life's issues, but the wealthy elite, who hide behind their piles of money and their propaganda machines and try to tell you how to think and who to blame for the issues that they caused."

The issue with socialism in the past has been that the wealthy elite are very good at coopting social and political movements across the globe, and often times they go unnoticed. The "left" in modern day, western countries are still inherently capitalists who don't truly believe in the above idiology, at least not in full, which is why they continue to fail to deliver the necessary solutions to prevent fascist uprisings.

Fascism comes as a direct result of three things: a top-down divide and conquer strategy, mass financial hardship, and lack of a proper education system that extends equally to all of society.

It used to be the Soviet union during left wing groups, now they support the right wing and are successful at it.

Russia is leading the way in a genocidal purge of the uneducated, just like the world did nearly 100 years ago. The survivors will value education or they'll participate in slaughter round two, and after that the uneducated male population will be culled enough for civil rights movements. Again. Just like last time.

But hey soon we'll be holding all European voters individually responsible for the heinous shit their far right governments are about to do, no matter who they voted for. Right?

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Apparently not… or they don’t want to see. Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a thing

We didn't even have a landslide. The GOP barely won control of the house and Senate and still managed to destroy our country.

They really don't :( Local TV news always tone down (and professional translation helps a lot with this too) the degenerate things said by authoritarian figures, heck they basically give them a platform everyday. Report by copy-pasting, no critique whatsoever. They don't report acts of violence by police or erosion of citizen rights, they just repeat what's said on media panels, twitter, truth social

Some of them probably saw our shit show over here and said "Gimme some of that!"

No, Italy is not the same, say what you will about Meloni, but she is not bought by Russia like AfD and Le Pen, she is also not trying to destroy the EU.

There is always a fly in the ointment and he was not a stellar Artoisian, but the French executed him for excesses while those that came later and to the north did not judge their own.