Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store's Labor-led coalition narrowly held its majority in Norway's parliamentary elections on Monday, even as the anti-immigration Progress Party scored a record result to become the country's main opposition force.
I’m worried it may also be short sightedednes (is that a word?)
Had a conversation with a friend the other day who voted for that block, but not that party, and it’s a bit frightening how otherwise intelligent people fall into the simplistic arguments made by this populist party.
We’re spending too much money on X, we need to cut it to the bone. Without ever asking a follow-up question as to what will happen if you do that. Maybe it is as you say, you get served something on social media that seems like an easy fix and people eat it up without question before jumping to the next tik tok or whatever.
A big thing in this election has also been the wealth tax, which I agree is not working as it should. However a lot of people seem to believe that this tax originated in a vacuum by a greedy government, and not an attempt to have the multi millioners pay some god damned tax.
Emotions also play a big role in this. Lots of political parties aim to maintain the status quo. If the status quo isn’t working anymore for a lot of people, they start looking for answers. In comes the right, making people angry about the situation, and angry people stop thinking. Instead they start parroting talking points, and the right is ready to feed people points and solutions that are easy, quick and wrong. By now the angry mass gobbles it up and integrates it in their belief system. Any rational argument against the slogans henceforth becomes a personal attack. Radicalization is now complete.
Probably the same thing that happens all over Europe: right wing parties are favored by social media.
It’s easy to just claim things and spread hate in short form content. It’s hard to set things straight and share a more nuanced opinion.
I’m worried it may also be short sightedednes (is that a word?)
Had a conversation with a friend the other day who voted for that block, but not that party, and it’s a bit frightening how otherwise intelligent people fall into the simplistic arguments made by this populist party.
We’re spending too much money on X, we need to cut it to the bone. Without ever asking a follow-up question as to what will happen if you do that. Maybe it is as you say, you get served something on social media that seems like an easy fix and people eat it up without question before jumping to the next tik tok or whatever.
A big thing in this election has also been the wealth tax, which I agree is not working as it should. However a lot of people seem to believe that this tax originated in a vacuum by a greedy government, and not an attempt to have the multi millioners pay some god damned tax.
Emotions also play a big role in this. Lots of political parties aim to maintain the status quo. If the status quo isn’t working anymore for a lot of people, they start looking for answers. In comes the right, making people angry about the situation, and angry people stop thinking. Instead they start parroting talking points, and the right is ready to feed people points and solutions that are easy, quick and wrong. By now the angry mass gobbles it up and integrates it in their belief system. Any rational argument against the slogans henceforth becomes a personal attack. Radicalization is now complete.
Shortsightedness is a word, yes.