What we seem to be seeing is yet another case of the socialdemocratic center-left getting tarred with being part of a corrupt socialism supported by intellectuals and permanent bureaucrats, and the radical ultraright claiming the ground of standing for the ways of earn-it-if-you-want-it righteousness. And, getting the support of what we used to see as “normal” conservatives, who have come to accept radical hardcore action as the way so that the left policies can be crushed and not then be easily restored.
As I alluded earlier in the thread, part of it also looks from out here like a kind of Peronism Derangement Syndrome. They want that legacy dead and if they can’t make you stop crediting Peronism for all social justice policies, then they’ll nuke the policies themselves so there’s nothing to “owe”. (And like I said then, to think, it was already in this century when people were thinking that nationalist populist LEFT ideology (Chavez, Evo) was the rising wave in LatAm. How things turn…)
You are really on point with this!
“Anti-Peronism” has an ancient name in Argentina : “Gorilismo” (“Gorillism”).
Most non-peronists have it but it can be healthy (for example if you dislike certain ways of doing things proper of peronism or having it rubbed on your face all the time).
Then you have the ones who have the really bad form of it, we could name it as you said “Peronism Derangement Syndrome” where they prefer to burn the country down to admit that Peronism is here, it’s proud and it’s never going away.
We are currently having the presidential debate, Massa is being his normal restrained self, Milei is screaming all over the place. Or so they tell me, I’m so nervous I can’t even watch.
Vargas Llosa went crazy some time ago, he was, I think always right leaning but he endorsed Bolsonaro(!!!) in Brazil in the last election, he’s gone cuckoo for cocoa pufs.
On the bright side all the candidates he’s endorsed (or the last 6 or so at least) have lost, he’s yeta as fuck, mufa, jinxer, bad juju…
Ok, Milei just said that we lost 4-0 against Germany in the 1974 world cup with goals by Cruyff (It was against Holland, which is clear when you know Cruyff’s nationality) this is a far greater misstep than it seems, we can abide madmen here but being ignorant about futbol? I’m not so sure
If Diego Maradona was still alive Milei would not be in a position to aspire to the presidency I can guarantee you, He would’ve talked with the press and reduced the idiot to a blubbering mass with a couple of acute observations and a derogatory nickname.
Well, even right wing media are saying that Massa won the debate, Milei’s dedicated followers of course say that it’s the other way around.
How much will this affect the election is anybody’s guess, there’s a climate of hope among the forces of rationality, I hope it’s warranted.
In a cosy corner of Bag End, a pretty hobbit lady sits perched on the edge of comfortable squishy sofa, enormous headphones covering her ears. Off to the side, nervously hopping from one leg to the other, is Frodo Baggins. The large TV screen shows an angry-looking man waving a chainsaw. At the sight of him, the hobbit lady furiously shakes her fist at the screen. “What? What did he say?” asks Frodo with an anguished look. The hobbit lady turns towards Frodo, moving one side of the headphones off her ear as she opens her mouth to respond. “No! Don’t!” Frodo groans, “I can’t bear it.” He starts pacing up and down Bag End, muttering and gesticulating in agitation.
This was the scene in my head. I’m glad you have someone to watch it with, at least.
I believe you’re right, and it’s a phenomenon that accompanies fear. When people feel like things are getting out of control and nothing can be done, they are very susceptible to right wing hard line propaganda. The human condition planet wide is deteriorating at an alarming rate for the many reasons that have been discussed here in many threads.
I feel like it started with the 2008 Great Recession, but now it’s taken a life of it’s own and it’s become self-sustaining.
Climate Change and the end of the US unipolar hegemony (whether or not that was a good thing is irrelevant, it represents change and people fear change) are also important parts of it.
It fuels the fear. Master manipulators (and magicians) have long realized that the perception of reality that one can create has a far greater effect than the actual reality itself.
