Comment by johnnyanmac
Comment by johnnyanmac 4 hours ago
>Somebody who puts the interest of their nation and the citizens of that nation first isn't a "fascist."
No, but nationalism is a very common channel to rile up fascist behavior. Make the overly proud, then dehumanize whoever you want them to attack. Once they no longer see that other as a human, all ethics goes out the window.
>is just driving everybody who was kind of in the middle more and more away from the 'name callers.'
Don't act fascist if you don't want to be called one:
>Another issue grabbing national attention is rising numbers of foreign residents and visitors, which has fueled widespread anti-foreigner sentiment that sometimes turns outright xenophobic. Many argue that Japan is at risk of losing its way of life, or that Japanese workers are being edged out of jobs.
Uh huh. A familiar trend the far right takes advantage of. Blame the foreigners than take hostile action towards them.
My only surprise is that the job market in Japan is this impacted. I guess seven a bad economy can dwarf the under-population crisis.
> think you can see this in the US where polls show independents increasingly leaning right on most issues, whereas not that long ago they tended to lean left.
In January, yes. By now, independents in the US have already soured. Maybe they are still right wing, but they realize Far-Right actions aren't it.
I don't understand how you can say things like this when we live in a time where you have people trying to imprison their political opponents (and nearly succeeding), assassinate their political opponents (and again nearly succeeding), and even murdering people who just want to publicly debate, which you then had their base either apathetic if not outright supportive of. And it's the exact people calling everybody else fascists.