Post #95766
2025-12-25 17:52 UTC
"In [the Unaccountability Machine], I diagnosed the problem of populism as being that people had got tired of not being listened to by the systems that governed them, and responded by using the only remaining communication channel they had. To take the title of my post on the US elections, the gap between governance and governed had got so big that the only signal that channel could carry was a scream. This was (and is) my theory of Trump, Farage, Meloni, etc etc."
https://backofmind.substack.com/p/what-is-once-sprung-cannot-necessarily
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@vaurora@mstdn.social 2025-12-27 11:49
Small hint here: this analysis only applies to people who, in living memory, did feel listened to by the government. Marginalized groups tend not to go fascist for many reasons, including that there is no recent Glorious Past to return to. (To a first approximation; thanks to intersectionality, oppression is fractal all the way down, and there are always people who choose to believe lies about the past, e.g. tradwives.)