Alt-right swing in politics


The election of Bolsonaro marks next milestone in sad chapter of world’s swing to the political right. This trend worldwide has very different reasons, but I do believe that one of the key ones might be mass-media induced misinformation and spread of fake news, which fuel the rising tensions between native inhabitants of countries and the immigrants to those countries - no matter of what background. We’ve seen this before Trump’s election, before Polish general election 3 years ago, before Brexit referendum, before French presidential election (luckily lost by Marine Le Pen’s National Front), and I wouldn’t be surprised if it also was a case before Brasilian elections. These misleading campaigns, teamed up with micro targeting on social networks resulted in many people being convinced slyly that the central-liberal/cosmopolitan views can only lead to chaos, ,devastation and despair. Now those people often regret voting for alt-right options as it can be seen during demonstrations in UK, USA, Poland, but sadly it’s all too late now. Next chance for most of them to right their wrongs, if they perceive them so, are next elections, so now we are standing before a decisive moment - will the world swing now to the very opposite, alt-left as a protest against alt-right politicians’ overuses? That we shall see quite soon.



Copyrights: Washington Post

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  1. englishdiary7 listopada 2018 10:13

    Left-wing populism is as bad as its right-wing counterpart, I think.
    I am not so sure people regret voting as they did. Look at he American mid-term elections, where Republicans have won even more seats in the Senate and candidates who are worryingly emulating Trump have won governorships of Florida and a few other states. So Trump and his lies don't seem to put people off as much as we would hope.

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  2. Unknown11 listopada 2018 12:21

    It is sad that the society is so easily influenced and manipulated. But why then is the 'right-wing manipulation' better or more effective?

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  3. Maciej13 listopada 2018 14:43

    Orange man bad. Right-wing more like NAZI amirightguys ? Cuz I mean rightwingpoliticiansaren'trisingbecausetheyareis,likedemandforthemorsomething, right ?

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