Thread with a few disturbing predictions/possibilities. Let me know what you think.
The disturbingly slow & botched roll-out of vaccines by EU member states could provide the next major political opening for anti-EU and extreme-right parties. 1/
The disturbingly slow & botched roll-out of vaccines by EU member states could provide the next major political opening for anti-EU and extreme-right parties. 1/
It’s not that the far-right parties would be any more competent, of course - they’d no doubt be worse - but they could easily make electoral gains off the deadly incompetence of current governing parties. 2/
Add to that the fact that the EU institutions & member states have proven themselves unwilling to rein in rightist authoritarians in Hungary & Poland, providing a model to others across the bloc. 3/
“Vaccine nationalism” will likely only grow in the media, too, thus amplifying the problem. It’s a click attractor that media outlets will keep milking as they did with nationalist fear-frames over refugees in 2015. 4/
As it was back then, mainstream politicians would likely shift hard to mimic the far right. Voters who resented even sensible measures to counter the virus could be joined by mask-wearers exhausted of their good will, seeing that their governments have messed up so badly. 5/
Anger will likely also get a boost from the EU’s promotion of vaccine scarcity and the bloc's support of a longer pandemic - and more deaths - to boost big pharma’s profits. (blocking #TRIPSwaiver) 6/
People will realise EU taxpayers subsidised companies to develop the vaccines & paid for the doses. Then they had to wait as deliberately fabricated scarcity kept vaccines out of their reach for months, maybe years (at current roll-out rates in EU). 7/
In short, the far-right parties in the EU would seem to be standing in front of an open goal right now.
Thoughts?
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Thoughts?
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