For me, many variation of direct democracy could be great.

As briefly as I can: instead of voting every few years for someone to represent the interests of your area in a national parliament, we would vote on a local level for our local maters, more often. When I say matters imagine the questions asked to be more like the ones at referendums.

I think it’s capitalism in crisis specifically, because during crisis common people may turn to leftist ideas, so in order to prevent that, capitalists promote nationalim and fascism as better alternatives to leftist ones. Of course, I could not pretend to be able to resume all parameters in one sentence.

Apart from that, and if I got you right, I am surprised you mention that for Germany it’s the lack of education. I was under the impression that since WW2 there was a lot of effort through education to avoid specifically the rise of fascism again. Did I get this wrong?

I wanted to have a conversation with you, this is why I asked your opinion specifically. I believe it’s important for people with different point of views to be able to talk about them. For me, it’s a pity that you don’t want to have one but at least I tried.

I understand that you see things differently, so I would like to ask you a couple of things to get your point of view.

For you why did fascism emerge in the first place and why did it re-emerge nowadays.

I just wrote a comment to a person that said we should kick out fascists. Copy-pasting it here:

I would like to add that we should also kick out capitalism and representative democracy out of the way because fascism is a byproduct of both of them.

Capitalism, when in crises uses fascists to restore its status quo and this is how they get elected in parliaments. We can now tell with certainty, that all the worldwide measures/reforms that took place after WW2 were not effective. If they had been, fascists would not be on the rise everywhere.

There are plenty of alternative systems of organising societies for the benefit of the people, they are just not promoted by the media, this is why we don’t hear about them as solution. I often use the example of kings to illustrate my point. During their era, everybody thought that this system could never change, but it did. So we can do this change as well. Actually we have to.

I would like to add that we should also kick out capitalism and representative democracy out of the way because fascism is a byproduct of both of them.

Capitalism, when in crises uses fascists to restore its status quo and this is how they get elected in parliaments. We can now tell with certainty, that all the worldwide measures/reforms that took place after WW2 were not effective. If they had been, fascists would not be on the rise everywhere.

There are plenty of alternative systems of organising societies for the benefit of the people, they are just not promoted by the media, this is why we don’t hear about them as solution. I often use the example of kings to illustrate my point. During their era, everybody thought that this system could never change, but it did. So we can do this change as well. Actually we have to.

You are totally right. This article is related to Europe, like all the others that are related somehow to China as well. Some were interesting, some borderline (?) conspiratorial but the point I wanted to make is that I lost count! This is why I asked the OP for mercy.

Please, have mercy.

This is a Europe community and almost all of your numerous posts today are somehow about China. And just to be clear, I don’t support China.

That’s a very interesting site. Thanks for sharing!

Archived link of the article

I have the impression that this could be the press release of this EU draft/document:

EU Preparedness Union Strategy to prevent and react to emerging threats and crises

Le Pen has also been given a €100,000 (£82,635) fine.

Only? I thought that the European parliament estimated the embezzled funds amounted to about €7m.

Or according to this article:

saw the embezzlement of €2.9m worth of European funds.

what can we influence?

Everything and I think it’s a process. We influence what we can in all scales, large, small, etc. The more we do this, the more we evolve and the better we get at it. And there is room for all sort of approaches. I mean, we get better at it regardless of a specific approach. Something like that.

This article a typical example of how mainstream media normalises contemporary fascist leaders.

Now that you mentioned it, here is a link for the book and the audiobook

I don’t think far-right parties appeal to logic. I think they create a narrative that is based on feelings of fear, and then present themselves as the only solution to their imaginary problem. Something like that.