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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sindarina@ngmx.com ("Sindarina, Edge Case Detective") wrote:
This is your regularly scheduled reminder that susceptibility to authoritarian, fascist and/or populist rhetoric isn't determined by 'intelligence', or education.
There are plenty of university-educated assholes out there who, despite being perfectly capable of reaching the logical conclusion based on the data available, reject that truth because it is inconvenient to them and their underlying convictions.
That is how a hate preacher with a Hungarian wife campaigns on closing the borders and a 'This is YOUR land' slogan, a Turkish refugee who came to this country as a child tries to outcompete him as the leader of the VVD, framing the party she once worked for as 'the radical left', and a gay man with an Argentine partner decided to move to the right for this campaign, and start waving Dutch flags at a time when they are very much a symbol of nationalist fervour, and hate.
People aren't being snookered into this. It is not because people aren't being 'heard'. It is a CHOICE, plain and simple, and one they keep making, over and over.