You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the right.

liberal initiatives such as advocating for the climate, considering women's experience in society, multiculturalism, conversations about identity and so on.

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the downplaying of educated and experienced voices on various topics

Essentially the whole thing can be summed up as “respect your betters” 😏

Well, you could have just said that instead of trying to demonise anyone who doesn’t share your opinions on many topics as being hoodwinked by idiots who are the equivalent of your political opposites to exactly the same degree -

In political science and popular discourse, the horseshoe theory asserts that the far-left and the far-right, rather than being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, closely resemble one another, analogous to the way that the opposite ends of a horseshoe are close together.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

This whole left/right paradigm is nonsense. The pietistic-progressive movement that coalesced in the United States during the 19th century and dominated the 20th century has reached its apogee in the 21st century.  It is the neo-conservatives who are at home in both American political parties, who have pushed the United States into disastrous wars in the Middle East to spread liberal democracy, are the heirs of the simplistic thinking of those who once dreamed of turning government into a representative of God’s will on earth. It is also the ideology behind Samantha Powers responsibility to protect (R2P) that bought down Libya with secretary of state Mrs. Clinton and US president Obama in power.

The current conflict in Ukraine is caused by politicians who have not stuck to the terms of Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances (1994) and instead of disbanding NATO having served its cold war function, pushed it into middle East wars and edged closer to Russian borders in the late 90s. It is the April 2008 NATO Bucharest declaration that opened the way for the accession of Georgia and Ukraine that finally triggered the Russians to put their foot down which they did in Georgia in August 2008. There is a lot more going on leading to the events of 2012-2014 in Ukraine that is probably covered in the other thread and I'm not writing a history lesson. I believe had politicians actually stuck to their agreements made after the collapse of the Soviet Union that we would not be involved in this war I am quite content with a policy of Finlandisation as regards Ukraine.

What has surprised me so far is the lack of a peacemaker in this conflict, I had expected President Macron of France to take the initiative and stop this before it started, the inclusion and gaffs of US vice-president Harris indicate the Americans were not serious about stopping this and just convinced me that they had already taken the decision to let it happen having known Putins intentions since October 2021. Now everyone has dug their heels in this conflict will probably drag for the next 2 years dragging more people in more countries in and ultimately will result in defeat for Ukraine. Remember the Finns fought successfully for a while, they were ultimately defeated, what saved them was the Russians wanted a neutral buffer between them and Sweden (historical battle in Poltava, in todays Ukraine)

There is another factor to consider, that of Klaus Schwab and his great reset that practically all Western leaders have bought into ("build back better") or more realistically Communism 2.0, the return of command and control under the auspices of the Green new deal. Part of its aims were to try and exercise control over Russia and China through the Carbon market, not going to happen - President Putin of Russia pressed his own reset button.

Getting back to the progressives, they have been the dominant ideology in Western countries in the aftermath of World war II. It is the arrogance of the American hegemon and those that pull its strings with the expansion of their manifest destiny that has now reached its limits, both China and Russia strongly object to American encroachment, however, have been quite happy to engage in global trade which is probably the major factor that has kept world peace for so long. When you start cutting off trade on both sides, you are wiping out the global economy and once you have undermined this, you have removed the benefits and then it really does expand the war.

The reality is that all Western governments and many large corporations have massive debt loads, with ageing populations and huge welfare dependency both public and corporate (offense industry, education are wholly government entities). The reset for this debt load was coming anyway events have moved it along, the current crop of politicians are the most stupid I've seen in a long time and as a consequence we are now caught in a war economy and must navigate a world of civil unrest, shortages of food, energy and other goods , high unemployment, and rampant inflation (25%+).

Great post.

Russia certainly support the radical right. Undermine the status quo

They also support the radical and woke left, undermine society, undermine social cohesion, undermine national solidarity.

You are in the same camp and the majority view ye as one.

I've seen a lot of radical left posters on social media decree the nationalist impulse driving the Ukrainian forces.

It's a firm Nyet from me to your world view and those influencing you and funding it. Same answer as ye have heard for decades no pasaran.

So you can diagnose the problem but do you have the answer?

There is a bad stench of incel off most on the right

the right do tend to have a more dichotomous view of the world, but the political left has been atrocious to

First it was The Rothschilds. Then George Soros. Now Klaus Schwab.

I'm sure I'll wake up one day and someone will link Joe Costello to being the latest scapegoat to people's own failures.

What?

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They are going after the Census now..