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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

If people are hurting, some of them will listen to the arguments of the Far Right - "the blame is those other guys who don't look the same as you" is quit an appealing argument for many.

There are two solutions for that:

  • You try to get most people to really think deeply their politics, in a well informed way which puts aside tribalisms, thus reducing the take of far-right arguments.
  • You remove the causes of the hurt, which at the moment it's mostly end-stage Neoliberalism (basically the wealth people produce is incredibly ill distributed).

I reckon the first one is pretty much impossible (I mean, it would be great, but it doesn't work for actual human beings, with all their tribalism and ignorant self-evaluations as not at all ignorant), whilst the second absolutelly is possible (and probably required, if only to stop the Environmental destruction of our planet and guaranteed the survival of our civilization).