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I had read an article, a while ago

that basically explored the idea that nowadays, the youth doesn't have much "ideologies" and "utopias" anymore

I mean we're witnessing how the world goes bad

and that because of that, they pick more nihilistic ideologies

and that's how we get kids who understand nothing about islam start jihad

That does sound like what's happening

or those men

in the far right

that go into camps

and believe in a great replacement of the white race

etc

Because honestly the majority of the people who end up as islamist terrorists were people who weren't involved in their local communities etc and where in trouble with police anyway

people who lost their way

The great replacement

Urghh

First time I heard of it was today

Don't they realise they sound just like nazis?

I had heard it before, but I guess that's because the guy who theorized it is a Frenchman

I don't think they care

or they'd tell it's different

hell, some of them might even embrace nazism

So sick

Sick in the head

The problem with populism is that they choose a point in history, and defend their "culture" or "ethnicity" from that point in time, defending the idea that people don't mix, and that a culture can be destroyed by another one. Many just go to the extent of retelling history and culture.

Exactly

People, cultures have been mixing for centuries, but that would hurt them to admit it

I dont think you could find anyone that was 100% one ethnicity

impossible lol

that's why they change history

make up narratives

to defend a "culture" and a "nation"

even though nations are a fairly recent principles

before people didn't identify as "french" or "German"

but more from the city they were from etc

We all have a need for belonging, but we also live in an extremely connected world, that feeds us fear, populism works on that

because of the news outlets

we can see all the bad things happening in the world

And it falls into the narrative of "protecting our borders"

so people gather in communities against something they don't know, something they identify as a threat

and "needing to be nationalistic"

hm

Guess who else was "nationalistic"

?

My only hint is that they have a weird mustache

Brb

lol, as said earlier, those people don't care to be identified as nazis, some would even greatly accept it

While also never denying thaat they're not either

i'm studying this, but apprently populism is a quite feeble "ideology"/"movement" though