That’s nothing. He missed the Canadian election results by two years.
To be fair, the election count wasn’t complete until Monday, and early (and clearly flawed) exit polls had the ruling Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (“Law & Justice”) party maintaining control; it actually won a plurality of votes at 35.4% of the vote, so there is clearly strong popular support for an openly illiberal conservative party, even though a coalition of opposition parties will have ostensible control if they can avoid factionalizing one another to pieces. Still, the constantly shifting goalposts and skewed politics of @Sam_Stone are evident as always, but he isn’t entirely wrong that many European nations (particularly Central and Eastern) are hewing toward more autocratic and in some cases proto-fascistic leadership.
I still don’t understand what any of this has to do with The Eagles, “living large”, and golf carts but I am but a simple man who enjoys bowling, driving around, and the occasional acid flashback, as well as a carpet that really ties the room together.
Stranger
You get the hell out of here with that kind of talk!
This is what makes you a treasure of a poster. (I hasten to add we have many!) I’m still laughing so hard!
This is a very complicated case, @Miller . You know, a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-you’s. And, uh, a lotta strands to keep in my head, man.
Stranger
How do you feel about lava lamps?
I can speak Lava Lamp!
BLOOP
The Dude abides, man.
To be fair to Sam here, this election was notable not because Poland dramatically surged left, but because this election signaled a pause in Poland’s long-running rightward slide. Not a reversal: just a pause. And it’s not just Poland either. Hungary, Turkey, Slovakia, Italy, the UK, the US, India, Brazil (yes I will include Brazil, their democracy just narrowly escaped a near-death experience). I could go on.
Although I will say that there’s a vile odor coming from Sam celebrating the decline of hated (by him) left-wing power by as evidenced by the rise of ethno-nationalist fascist autocrats (who are most definitely not just free-market-limited-government enthusiasts)… if you’re pretending this global pro-fascist trend doesn’t exist because of a couple of high-profile near-misses, you’re whistling past the graveyard. It’s happening and it’s not good.
I do somewhat resonate with the conspiracy theory that someone’s trying to recreate 1979 vibes, with oil shocks and mideast unrest to distract and weaken the US, but to me it seems more like a hybrid of 1914 and 1932.
Fun times were had by all!
Didn’t that already happen for a while, with the Gulf and Iraq Wars, rise of Al Qaeda and ISIS, etc.? I remember gas prices getting really bad in the late 90s and early ‘00s.
Yep. Happens every few years. But for the fear-mongers, it’s always new and extra-scary. Nothing scares a RW adherent like high gasoline proices.
Ever since oil supply became entwined with Middle East conflict, gas prices have been folded into every wackadoodle’s biblical prophecy.
Normal people who want to go to work, raise their families, and live in peace with their neighbors, who probably voted for Obama and Clinton and Biden and have absolutely no beliefs that would have been called “right-wing” in 1980, definitely don’t like being accused of being far-right racists by irritating activists who are stuck in campus politics mode forever, for holding such crazy notions as “Jews shouldn’t be exterminated” or “the job of the DA should not be to make it easier to be a criminal.” There definitely will continue to be some sort of electoral consequence for this phenomenon. If anything, Trump’s obnoxiousness has only delayed it because decent people are willing to put up with a lot of bullshit from Democrats rather than vote for him. The next Mitt Romney type to present an image of sanity to the general public (after somehow figuring out how to make his way out of the Republican primaries and their crazy voters) stands to gain a lot.
How happy for those normal people, then, that this is nothing more than a right-wing fantasy! How sad for those normal people, then, that there’s such a wealthy and competent industry dedicated to convincing them that this idiotic fantasy ever happens.
You gotta make sure you anchor that strawman solidly before it falls over, but it’s a bit late.
What you’re describing isn’t happening. That’s as much bullshit as rampant election fraud and Democrats draining the blood of abducted kids.
Cool story Bro.
What were the literal examples of “crazy right-wing beliefs” in the OP of this thread, again?
It sounds like people were commenting on what you posted.
The three examples given of a massive far-right shift in the culture were:
- A dumb country song that was being pushed by right-wing podcasters for about a week two months ago, which almost immediately fell completely out of everyone’s consciousness.
- A rabbi saying that he supports efforts to prevent Jews from being exterminated.
- The recall of the San Francisco DA, an overt communist whose stated platform was that crime should not be prosecuted, following the descent of San Francisco into a hellhole.
This is the subject of this thread - the assertion that America is heading to a massive political shift to the far right because the poster observed those three things.
Someone is shifting somewhere, but it’s the people in the bubble here who need to understand that “it shouldn’t be legal to shit on the street and smash store windows for a living” and “terrorists shouldn’t be allowed to massacre Jews with impunity” are not irrational, dangerous, or “far-right” beliefs. You are in a war on being normal and declaring that you forbid anyone to notice or to create electoral consequences for this isn’t working anymore.