It’s their enablers, though. And those are just as bad as the real thing.
If you look at the rise of the most infamous fascist regime to date, the 3rd Reich, you’ll find that there, the fascists only could get into power, because they were constantly aided and enabled by self proclaimed “conservatives”.
Thanks to incessant propaganda, and spineless “democrats” engaging in false “tolerance” towards the intolerant, the entire political spectrum has shifted towards the right a fair bit.
The overall decline of journalism
Facts are a thing of the past, everything is treated as an opinion. Instead of researching and reporting on facts, it’s way easier to simply parrot opposing “opinions” and pretend it’s balanced reporting.
Engagement and attentionOutrage driven, mostly ad funded “journalism” where the most outrageous piece generates the most clicks and therefore revenue
Shallow click bait journalism will regurgitate every piece of shit that comes out of “social” media, which pioneered outrage driven (and driving) algorithms
Corporate media owned by people who think they will profit from and therefore support fascists with outright propaganda
The success of the fascists and media circus inducing spineless “democrats” to cater to the extreme right, in order to (typically unsuccessfully, because why vote for a cheap copy if you can have the real deal) fish for votes in the fascist cesspool of hatred shifting the political spectrum even further.
The right shift is a self accelerating feedback loop, it normalises views, which were unthinkable to civilised people only a short time ago.
This unfortunately is a phenomenon that’s pretty global. This time, there is little chance of any outside help against fascists gaining power, because barely any country will be spared from that fate.
But it’s not the fascists publishing obituaries in the main newspapers.
Maybe things are different across the pond but fascists own all media over here
It’s their enablers, though. And those are just as bad as the real thing.
If you look at the rise of the most infamous fascist regime to date, the 3rd Reich, you’ll find that there, the fascists only could get into power, because they were constantly aided and enabled by self proclaimed “conservatives”.
Still, I don’t understand why the (Dutch) liberal media feels it has to treat this like it’s incredibly important.
Multiple factors.
Engagement and attentionOutrage driven, mostly ad funded “journalism” where the most outrageous piece generates the most clicks and therefore revenueThis unfortunately is a phenomenon that’s pretty global. This time, there is little chance of any outside help against fascists gaining power, because barely any country will be spared from that fate.