@glitterbag,
glitterbag wrote:
Why do you call the extreme right emerging in France, Hungary, Italy, Germany and Brazil "progressive"? The AFD in Germany wants to have school children inform on their teachers political leanings, that's a clarion call to the bad old days. I'm aware of the strife in Hungary, Italy and France, but why would you call these totalitarian-leaning political efforts to be 'progressive'? Brazil, that's a whole different situation and a different continent, so no need to define that. Also, the rest of the world uses terms that don't necessarily equate to the American definition so I'm really just interested in why you are using it in that way.
You have misread my post. I did not call the emerging populist governments and political movements of various EU and other nations populist at all. In nearly all of these cases it is their establishment opponents (Both in government and in other cases opposition) which are largely Progressive.
My essential point was that contemporary progressive political movements and governments are becoming increasingly involved in the direction of all aspects of people's lives (i.e. totalitarian), and that is what is inspiring the emergence of new populist movements from Hungary to France, the USA, and Brazil.
Oliver chooses to label these emerging political movements as necessarily Fascist. That however is a rather vague term, having little in the way of consistent, concrete meaning.
