Should we be worried about right-wing populism?

As I said on the other thread, politicians and left wingers find all sorts of ways and words to dismiss what many people think.

But things like Europe and mass immigration matter to ordinary people, and they vote at the ballot box.

The more that politicians and left wingers dont take notice, the more that ordinary people stand up for themselves.

It is happening in America too. See the rise of Donald Trump.

The most left-wing of left-wingers scapegoat certain groups too. It's a characteristic of the intolerance that makes far righters and far lefters veer away from moderateness. The opposite ends of the political spectrum have a lot in common with each other, the main things being intolerance and a liking for totalitariansim.

I'm afraid to say that there were plenty of warnings of this happening when Angela Mercal said to migrants welcome to Europe. Nobody asked their people what they thought. And now Austria have told them what they think.

They all have one thing in common though. They have a tendency to scapegoat certain groups in order to explain the apparent ills of society.

This often takes the form of anti-immigration with its racist undertones.

About racism, yes, but I'm not sure all those who are called right wing fascists are completely opposed to immigration. I think they (some or even many of them) are concerned about the current rate of immigration. The article I posted at the beginning of the Trump thread attempts to look at the reasons why there has been this upsurge of the right-wing. People seem to think that their valid concerns are just being used to call them racist when really they aren't (I know some are but I don't believe it's the majority who are viting for these right-wing politicians).