Its leader is a former supermarket manager who created his political party on YouTube in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic and campaigned on the Trumpian message “Japanese First.”
Now Japan’s burgeoning right-wing populist party Sanseito has emerged an unlikely winner in parliamentary elections this weekend.
Inspired by other populist right-wing groups that have sprung up in recent years, Sanseito bagged 14 seats in Japan’s upper house, according to public broadcaster NHK – a dramatic increase from the single seat it had occupied previously.
“Now ______’s burgeoning right-wing populist party…”
Is a sentence I’m REALLY fucking tired of seeing over and over and over and over… The future is depressing enough ffs.
i genuinely think what we have to do is start speaking in terms of the future we desire. fascism presents no hopeful vision of the future and only offers a return to an imagined past. i think the best way to dislodge people from the right wing beast is to offer them hope. the lower classes are suffering currently, and the right wing is saying to them “it used to be easier, didn’t it? back when the police beat rodney king to within an inch of his life? we could go back to that”
but the reality is they want to take us back to when we were all property. never forget that black people were enslaved by europeans around the time european serfs demanded and won their freedom. backsliding on slavery will not make anyone freer, it will just get everyone closer to being enslaved. same goes for women’s rights, gay rights, trans rights, civil rights, everything.
the only way for any of us to be free is to work together towards a shared future where everyone is fed, everyone has shelter, and no one has hoards of what anyone else needs. for the record, i’m an anarchocommunist (and i coalition most closely with religious anarchists from my time learning from jewish and native american anarchocommunists). this is our vision for the future. and lest anyone from a post soviet country think i’m advocating for bolshevism, i am decidedly not. any system that requires gulags to sustain itself is not a system that any anarchist can agree with. i believe in freedom from structures of power. that includes fascism, authoritarian communism, capital holders, and organized crime. the power must belong to the people because we are the ultimate originators of all of it.
when the greedy parasites declare war, who do they draft? us. when the greedy parasites get hungry, who feeds them? us. when the greedy parasites needs their homes heated and connected to water, who do they call? us. it’s always us. we’re who runs all this machinery. we just need to awaken to the power that we have: the power we have always had
back when the police beat Rodney king to within an inch of his life?
Bad example, since this never stopped in any way.
oh i know. but that’s the promise the fascists make. “let us take away some rights and things will get easier for you” when what they’re really saying is “we will change nothing, you will get nothing”
I totally agree about hope. Hope and joy are revolutionary, especially when it seems like the world is falling apart. Cynicism is a trap - we need to dig deeper and come together.
Traditional parties are consistently failing their nations all over the world.
The only ones offering any kind of hope for the future are snake-oil salesmen like this.Snake oil salesmen backed by the most criminally corrupt oligarchs, corporations, and lobbyists; the same people who corrupted politics and caused it to fail their nations are now selling the snake oil cure to their snake oil disease.
Yeah, well, when people consistently elect the same morons and life gets steadily worse, no one should be surprised when people stop voting for the do-nothing party.
What hope? The opportunity to make a scapegoat suffer?
It’s almost like fascism is a reaction to capitalism in decay or something
An inevitable end result even.
Moscow money, like everywhere else?
Argentina was not Moscow money… not this time. I put my bets on isnotreal
I don’t see this going far in japan, idk what boogie man they’re going to point to. The guy likes to rant about immigration like all these other fascists, but japan just doesn’t have a large immigrant population to begin with. Even the people scared of foreigners who want them out probably recognize that the population is shrinking and aging and mass deportation will only make that worse.
Apparently he is also antisemitic but again not many jews in Japan to blame for its problems.
The appeal for these parties is to bring the country “back” to a homogenous ethnostate and that will magically fix all the problems, but japan already is one and still has a lot of issues.
Because it’s populist and people are stupid
Apparently it’s surprisingly hard to not vote for Asian Jim.
Russian money.
So what I’m hearing is that Japan, with its immigration hating and xenophobic culture was not already RW?
It is le capitalism transforming into le fascism! This is very le surprising! Also imagine a supermarket manager leading your country’s charge into fascism.
It’s honestly better than the movement being led by a demented TV “personality”
