interolivary

interolivary, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Not after >10 years of conservatives gutting education funding and blaming leftists for the inevitable decline of the system. Ditto with public healthcare, we have a legitimate healthcare crisis going on but they’re still going to cut more. Naturally with tax cuts for the rich that are going to be offset by decimating welfare, selling government property & state-owned stock of course.

The previous all-leftist government had to take 10bn€ in loans to help deal with COVID, and at the time the right was even calling for it so they could give money to businesses.

Now they’re claiming our current economic problems are purely the left’s fault and the spending was irresponsible (despite having previously wanted to take on more loans), and after less than half a year they’ve already confirmed they’ll be taking more than 10bn€ loans, just so they can give tax cuts to the rich and literally destroy the welfare system. So where leftists spent 10bn over 4 years to keep the country operational during a pandemic, the reich-wingers spent 10bn in half a year to make rich people even richer.

Conservatives are fucking evil.

interolivary, 8 months ago

They are not.

Conservatives are currently an existential threat to humanity, and they’re winning because they’re literal psychopaths

interolivary, 8 months ago

Check out the poll, it’s linked in the article. You might be surprised; here’s the percentages for “IMPORTANCE OF LIVING IN A DEMOCRACY Percentage of respondents per country who say it is important to them to live in a country that is democratically governed”

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/37a1ca69-0229-4eb5-af5e-ee07db1d85c5.webp

interolivary, 8 months ago

You’re essentially just dismissing the result because you don’t like it. Check out the poll, it’s linked in the article; here’s the percentages for “IMPORTANCE OF LIVING IN A DEMOCRACY Percentage of respondents per country who say it is important to them to live in a country that is democratically governed”

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/37a1ca69-0229-4eb5-af5e-ee07db1d85c5.webp

interolivary, 8 months ago

Eh, I don’t know; eg. there were lots of unrepentant Nazis around right after WW II.

Some people are just, well, terrible. Right-wing authoritarians don’t really care about much except being able to hurt others in some way

interolivary, 8 months ago

Great question, that’d really would be pretty interesting to know. The actual study results are linked in the article so you can check it out of you have the energy. I read parts of it but I can’t remember what the question set was

interolivary, 8 months ago

And unfortunately that’s going to probably lead to a whole lot of deaths in the near future