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The throughline of fascism thatâs been most resilient through modern day is the idea of class struggle being replaced by âworkers should comply with owners against a common enemyâ, and then that enemy is pretty replacable with the scare of the day.
Pit-in-the-stomach feeling reading the news today as the brownshirts in Sweden are gearing up to delay climate solutions even harder, through outright denial. This is a horror show since the other parties are already bad and insufficient at climate stuff. We definitiviely canât afford to add a big old stinking Overton magnet in the opposite direction.
Politically, it makes perfect sense that theyâre doing this: create a common enemy in âpeople who know climate change is realâ and they can pretty directly link woes to that enemy.
Their rural politics spokesperson said: âPeople think that the fees and tariffs weâve put on our backs break their lives to a too great extentâ (lit "MĂ€nniskor tycker att pĂ„lagorna som vi tagit pĂ„ oss slĂ„r sönder deras tillvaro i allt för hög utstrĂ€ckning").
No shit!
But that doesnât make climate change less real đ€Šđ»ââïž
Thatâs why this is so fucked up. It would make perfect sense, this strategy, if it werenât for the small little problem that thereâs a climate crisis thatâs killing everyone.
And lives do need to change.
Climate change is caused by unaccounted-for transaction externalities. Thatâs just facts. (Some of those tariffs properly would need to be infinite since there are singularities in the equation.)
Things are already subsidized. Weâve built all weâve got on the false economy of fossils.
That also explains why the fascists never select climate threat itself as the scare of the day, why we see gasoline populist fascism to a much greater extent than eco-fascism: because fascism is about preserving the owner classâs wealth, and thatâs incompatible with addressing climate change.
Which weâve got to do.
Our past selves borrowed from our future selves but now we canât figure out a way to kick the can down the road even if we wanted to.
And I know that for some of us all weâve got is crumbs and cardboard. We have an ever-increasing wealth gap, a wealth gap that this partyâs policies has widened. Lives at the top should be changing even more. We canât have burgers and cars and we sure as heckfire canât have no private jets.
This same party wants to rapidly increase military spending by 54%, by the way.