From Raiders & Enslavers To Right Wing Politics Today
There is a direct line through history from raiders and enslavers to right wing politics today. The fundamental belief underpinning all of these positions is that it is OK to enrich yourself at the expense of others. Further to that, the primary focus is always on your own desires and bugger the greater community around you. The Vikings are most famous as raiders, who came to other places to slaughter and pillage. They would enslave their most saleable surviving victims to enrich themselves, even more. This attitude to life and getting ahead still exists in a tempered form for right wing folk. The belief that it is a dog eat dog world and that only the strong will thrive flourishes in far right politics today.
Right Wing Politics in Trumpland
They combine this with a white supremacist view that only the pure race deserves to live in their country. We see this in Trumpland, where brown skinned Americans are being shot and killed under the guise of expelling them from the country. This in 2026, where we once thought civilisation prevailed under the rule of law. Violent thugs dressed up as masked stormtroopers are hunting down people in the streets and turning their guns upon them. Meanwhile, weak leaders in foreign nations like Australia turn a blind eye to state sponsored murder happening in their ally’s city streets. The US military has, also, illegally invaded Venezuela and been bombing Iran mercilessly for 5 months now. The bullying superpower knows no restraint.
Right Wing Sons & Daughters Of Settlers
Another invading force in history has been colonial settlers. If you asked Indigenous peoples around the world, who they fear the most, settlers would be high on their list. Australia and the Americas saw an invasion force of Europeans stealing homes and killing those who lived upon that land before them. These settlers told themselves they had God on their side and that the native people were less deserving than themselves of such a bountiful homeland. A century and more of years may have dimmed the memories of the victors, when it comes to the bloodshed and human suffering. However, the same thing goes on in Palestine today, as Israeli settlers and forces expand their apartheid state to take even more land from the original inhabitants. An extreme right wing government leads Israel and the blood price mounts every day. 70, 000 Palestinians died in Gaza from IDF bullets and bombs.
Billionaires & Right Wing Zionists
Advocates of Israel have established themselves in positions of influence in the UK, Australia and Trumpland. Zionist lawyers and billionaires both threaten and purchase favours to ensure smooth sailing for their narratives promoting the righteousness of Israel.
It has become a crime to criticise Israel in Australia and Britain, as they have cleverly conflated antisemitism with any criticism of the state of Israel.
This is a right wing political strategy, supported by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp via its many media platforms. Billionaires control the global media; and war mongering nations like Israel and Trumpland censor the news from their battlefields. Tens of thousands of Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli bombs but in white skinned states these hardly rate as human beings worthy of being counted. Right wing folk are more interested in the fortunes of their sporting teams.
Where Aristocrats Got Their Wealth From
The wealth of many aristocrats came originally from piracy and raiding. Walter Raleigh was a state sponsored pirate. Taking what you want by force. Later generations would cover up the true nature of the exploits of their ancestors. Many of these celebrated men were slavers. Christopher Columbus and the many Portuguese and Spanish colonial explorers and conquerors funded their expeditions via slavery. That these names were then written into histories and have garnered respect is more hypocrisy. Such is the world we have lived in for centuries. Right wing politicians like Trump and Hanson would have this hypocrisy perpetuated. Trump is a liar, cheat and convicted felon, but the hero of some right wing folk. These people have little interest in the truth, as they want to make up their own version of events. Their enriching end justifies the means.
The Roots Of Right Wing Politics
There is a direct line through history from raiders and enslavers to right wing politics today. The fundamental belief underpinning all of these positions is that it is OK to enrich yourself at the expense of others. Right wing folk reckon that their desires are more important than anybody elses. They have been encouraged by Republicans to see themselves as an enclave of more deserving types of Americans. They have been told that it is OK to revel in their prejudices against other different folk. That these ‘others’ are less deserving than themselves. Thus, we get hate speech flourishing online on the right wing platforms.
Rich people know that if you demonise a weaker target like refugees or immigrants it distracts from their own avarice and greed. The culture wars are all about that deflection.
Political strategists know that if you can get people to react emotively, rather than think things through, it is easier to manipulate them. Ultimately the game is all about power. It is based on a zero sum game, however, and as the circle of PLUs shrink, they will eventually come for you. 1984. The Nazis. Right wing fascists fall upon each other in the end. If you have no respect for the greater good, for diversity, then, everyone gets cannibalised in the end. Totalitarian states do not lend themselves to happy endings.
Pauline Hanson Supports Violent Far Right Thug
“All those Aussies voting One Nation and who claim they are not racists, your leader Pauline Hanson meets with far right thug, Tommy Robinson. White Australia policy aspirations are in the air, it seems. Blame all your woes upon the immigrant. The cost of living crisis has you looking around for convenient scapegoats. It is the same old story for a nation of dumb and craven folk. 30 years ago most of us knew that people like Pauline Hanson were fringe at best and nasty/dangerous at worst. That a third of some parts of Australia would vote for this racist and xenophobic political party is a sign of the times.”
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of The Stoic Golfer; The AI Heresy; What Price Life?; America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump; and other titles. NOW AVAILABLE AT APPLE BOOKS & GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS. Google Play Books AUDIOBOOK
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