Thread by @SteB777

The modern right are not believers in democracy, unless it puts them in power. The modern populist right are totally intolerant of any other perspective but their own. They even attack, moderate Conservatives. By the left, they mean everyone but them.
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I must make it very clear that I am not ideological and that I am not conventionally left wing, even if I have similar principles of social justice and equality. My guiding principle is ecological sustainability i.e. avoiding the ecological collapse of our societies.
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My reason for attack the right is most are now climate change deniers, attacking the natural systems that sustain us. I am a lot more sympathetic to the left, because their policy is more in line with sustainability, but not totally.
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There's still a tendency for those on the left, to fetishize industrialism and to talk about things like a green industrial revolution, green growth, and other unrealistic policy. This is why I'm not conventionally left wing and not ideological.
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I oppose all ideology, because it always, quite wrongly assumes that it knows exactly what the problem is, and what the solutions are. This is extremely unhelpful in the context of the climate and ecological crisis, where we must remain open-minded to address serious problems.
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With such a complex situation and crisis, no one can possibly know the challenges we will face in advance, and what all the solutions need to be.

Many people mistakenly think environmentalism is an ideology.
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Often sustainability, climate solutions is seen in terms of a transition to renewable energy, EVs, and climate tecno-fixes. This is the policies of conventional politics, it is unrealistic for long term sustainability and just a means to carry on with BaU.
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Seen correctly, climate and ecological activism, is not a collection of pre-ordained solutions. It is about adapting to reality as it is, not an ideological view of it. This is the problem with ideology. Ecology is far too complex to knew everything in advance.
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I only mention all of this, to overcome the misunderstanding of why I attack the modern populist right. There never used to be a left right divide on climate change and the ecological crisis. This has only emerged in the last 20 years.
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Concern about the climate and ecological crisis, is not a left wing thing, it only mistakenly be, because the modern right has slid into climate change denial, and denial of our reliance on natural systems.
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Go back to the time of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, a good marker, and there was no left right divide on the perception of the climate and ecological crisis. It was not a left wing thing, the US HW Bush regime was a full participant.
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In 1989 Margaret Thatcher gave her detailed address to the UN General Assembly about the future dangers of climate change. The modern populist right, lies when they present this as a left wing concern.

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The reason the right got into active climate change denial, and denial of the need for ecological sustainability, is because the fossil fuel industry, and other vested interests, sought to avoid regulation of their industry.
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They sought to fund right wing and neoliberal politics, because they thought it was the best vehicle to promote climate change denial, to avoid attempts to phase out fossil fuels, and other industry damaging the natural world.
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Modern right wing politics is fake. It falsely presents itself as Conservative, because conservatism is a natural tendency, and it uses that lens, to sell itself to gullible voters. But it is really the agenda of billionaires, oligarchs and big corporations.
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Protect billionaires, help them to pay less tax, make it easier for them to exploit ordinary people, isn't something that can be sold to the public. So they need a fake political vehicle to sell this to enough people to get elected.
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Hence, drumming up natural fears and prejudices about immigrants taking over, other cultures and religions supplanting traditional cultural traditions in the West, and just plain old White Supremacy, and fear porn.
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There's nothing like drumming up fear about outsiders taking over, and people's cultural identity being threatened, to draw people in, when they are in fear of imaginary enemies. The real enemy of humanity is the ballooning wealth of the super rich.

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Billionaires don't care about you. They're all planning to fly off to Mars or to retreat to their bunkers and enclaves, when humanity starts starving because they've destroyed the Earth's natural systems, to get rich.

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Billionaires are not financing extreme right policy, because they believe in all those Conservative values. It is simply the most practical means to sell their anti-human policy, to what they see as the most gullible, most likely to buy into it.
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As I say, help billionaires to get even richer, even though it will destroy the habitable world, and lead to mass starvation, isn't an effective marketing strategy. So they need a fake Conservative sugar-coating, to sell their agenda to the public.
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I am not fearful of these extreme right wing fantasies succeeding, because they are stupid and unrealistic. Their dreams of fascist like authoritarian regimes, will soon collapse, when people see there's an attempt to enslave them.
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The sort of propaganda being spread by the likes of the late Charlie Kirk, extreme right wing influencers and right wing politicians, is because it pays very handsomely, to promote the agenda of billionaires, as they have all the money. Pure, naked corruption.
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Again, their attraction to US evangelical Christianity, is not because they are believers themselves, but because it offers the type of powerful cult, necessary to get popular support, for their agenda. Trump is a fake Christian, and immoral man.
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They are trying to crush, in a violent way, any opposition to this cod, fake politics, as they fear other political viewpoints, might tax billionaires and curb their control of our societies. Modern populist right politics, is fake, and hides what it is really about.
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“There are now no non-radical futures. The choice is between immediate and profound social change or waiting a little longer for chaotic and violent social change. In 2023 the window for this choice is rapidly closing.”
@KevinClimate

The future.

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@KevinClimate No one has to take my word for it, because it is an unfolding future, that is there and happening for everyone to see. Sure, the fanatically minded can carry on denying the huge increase in extreme weather, collapsing biodiversity, increasing pollution, for a bit longer.
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@KevinClimate But denying this reality, is going to get increasingly difficult, with increasing impacts on our societies, increasing food prices due to climate related extreme weather, and eventually food shortages, and food hyperinflation.
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@KevinClimate Once food starts getting too expensive to afford, or in short supply, any right wing authoritarian regimes, denying climate change, are going to collapse pretty quickly. Right wing populism, will become about as popular as a dose in a brothel.
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@KevinClimate However, as the Professor Kevin Anderson @KevinClimate explains, we have a very limited window of opportunity, to stop the climate crisis, crushing and collapsing our civilization. These food related events are not far off in the future, they are happening now.
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@KevinClimate I can point you to the studies about climate related events pushing up food prices, but you really don't have to take my word for it, just look at increasing prices of the food you buy. It is not some theory, it is empirical reality.

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@KevinClimate Where do you think all that extra money you are paying for food is going? In the pockets and bank accounts of the very rich.

Why do you think Bill Gates is the biggest owner of farmland in the US. Food inflation, is a money spinner for billionaires.

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@KevinClimate This is very cynical. The very rich know what was going to happen with climate change and food prices, and they want to cash in.

Trump campaigned on food inflation, egg prices to get into office. Now he doesn't want to talk about it, like the Epstein files.
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@KevinClimate As I say, modern right wing populism, is fake and deceitful politics, to sell the agenda of billionaires. I can't blame people caught up in this political movement. They can see society and politics is corrupt, but they can't see that they are voting for the worst option.
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@KevinClimate I only mentioned the Epstein files to illustrate just how deceitful and manipulative, right wing populism is. They promoted conspiracy theories about Epstein and his links to Democrats like Bill Clinton, to smear the Democrats and to get elected.
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@KevinClimate However, once in office, Trump no longer wants to speak about the Epstein files, because he's in them. Just like he no longer wants to talk about food inflation and egg prices. The whole of the populist right, is a flimflam. They are not about the issues they campaign on.
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@KevinClimate They are about spreading propaganda for billionaires, because they pay people a lot of money to spread lies, to facilitate their agenda of enslaving humanity for profit, to avoid paying tax, and to facilitate their AI scam, which will put people out of work.
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@KevinClimate It's all, look over there at the immigrants, the Muslims, the left, but don't look at the skyrocketing wealth of billionaires, created and made by ripping you off.

That money billionaires are rapidly accumulating is your money.

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@KevinClimate Billionaires are not your friends and benefactors. They don't give a damn about you or your concerns. They just pretend to, to get you to buy into their politics, which is really just about protecting their increasing wealth. They are fake Conservatives. Fake religious.
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@KevinClimate Really, it is a very old scam. Billionaires are nothing but confidence tricksters, and right wing populism is their flimflam. The way conmen work, is by pretending to be your best friend, wanting to help you get rich. But as we know, it's always fake, a flimflam.
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@KevinClimate Of course some smart arses will claim I wrote too much, TLDR. But really, I have not said half as much as those gobshites on Fox News, other channels, and right wing influencers, and everything they say is BS. Don't take my word for it, watch what happens.
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