Walp (growing worldwide fascism)

[cilla4progress]

https://wapo.st/3ENIWbv -- no paywall

Leaders of democracies increasingly echo Putin in authoritarian tilt

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In a flurry of elections, some of the world’s major democracies have been leaning toward or outright embracing far-right authoritarian leaders, who have echoed one another by promising to crack down on loose morals, open borders and power-hungry elites.


Voters in Italy last month elected a nationalist leader whose party proposes a U-turn from the effects of globalization. In Brazil, right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro injected doubt into the results of his reelection bid by speculating that the vote would be rigged against him in a conspiracy driven by the country’s elites. In the Philippines this year, voters chose the son of their former dictator Ferdinand Marcos as president, electing to stick with strongman politics.
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[Irish_Dem]

1. Russia, China, Iran, Saudi are waging information warfare against democracies.

And they are winning.

[cilla4progress]

2. Yep.

I fully foresaw this happening as the climate collapse accelerated.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes global events are not coincidental.

[Dysfunctional]

4. The worse climate change gets the fewer democracies there will be.

[cilla4progress]

5. Definitely

Just what we need, right?

SMDH

It already seems like no one cares about anything, no enthusiasm.... except the youth.

I am staying engaged for them.