This is not my personal opinion, I know Gen Z men who voted for Harris. But the voter demographics really speak for themselves, and maybe now people will look at the radicalization of young men as a serious (but solvable) issue.

  • Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zipEnglish
    194·
    17 days ago

    “Oh they didn’t actually mean that, it was all jokes”.

    Because those were jokes.

    The problem we have today is not that it was socially acceptable to be a psychopath online in 2014. The problems are, in my opinion:

    • Rapidly decreasing standards of living
    • Social media making people more stupid
    • Governments being too large and intransparent
    • Pointless governmental spending without explaining the why to the population

    The right-wing shift is part of a global failure of established governments.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      17 days ago

      The right-wing shift is part of a global failure of established governments.

      Yes! Thank you.

      Just as the next left-wing shift won’t be a result of humanity getting smarter somehow, it will be a result of right-wing policies failing. And that shift won’t lead to any improvement either.

      It’s a pendulum.

      People are willing to tolerate a failing system longer, when it aligns on surface with their own views. This is similar to people on the right defending Pinochet and death squadrons.

      And people on the left 20 years ago would defend a lot of things about USSR or Che Gevara or stuff like this, even not being tankies.

      Tribalism leads to degeneracy.