The rise of the Radical Right

[Swagman]

There has been a world-wide shift to the political Right, beginning about 1980 and since then becoming progressively more extreme. This Rightward drift may have been interrupted in the recent elections in the United States, but it may well accelerate in Australia if the Coalition wins in September. Already there has been serious damage to our social fabric, our democratic institutions and our legal and human rights, with rather less economic benefit than is usually claimed. The prospect of a conflicted, authoritarian, and regressive Australia therefore threatens.

The radical Right’s policies have clearly failed, politically and economically. It remains powerful, but only through its entrenched cultural position and its alliances with the media, the wealthy and fearful reactionaries.

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/politics/the-rise-of-the-radical-right/#comment-125323

Comments : "If Dwight Eisenhower were alive and gave the same speeches he did when he was President he would be labelled a raving left wing radical loony who is out to impose communism upon the USA"

[awoke_in_2003]

1. This is being driven...

by the uberwealthy. This is why it is happening trans-nationally.