You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the right.

So, you're completely dismissing my opinions, claiming it's just an American view, about American topics, expressed with American phrases, while being adamant I should listen to others.

GB News specifically launched itself saying it was going to be non-Woke and their current poster child uses the term frequently so maybe you insisting that it is an American thing only, and me being able to give examples that that is clearly not the case should tell you that what I am talking about is indeed more than just of US relevance.

I'm confident in expressing my opinion, I've given detailed examples in my posts on this thread of what I am referring to. I'm not going to stop just because you want to ignore that and try to make this in to something just about me.

Well, they would argue that they are being shut down and use examples of Trump or others being kicked off Twitter as evidence of this . They misrepresent 2 factors in relation to this. One, there have always been limitations on speech which is hateful or likely going to cause harm, and that is what blatant misinformation about the election and Covid is and was. And two, Twitter is a private company and doesn't have to host anyone it doesn't want to.

And meanwhile, the right leaning administrations are implying severe restrictions on anyone who is teaching history in a particular way, even though it is true. And in Florida they have brought in regulations prohibiting disclosing and discussing of sexual identity in schools.

Kicking Trump or Marjorie Taylor Greene off Twitter because they are spreading lies, is not hateful, stopping people discussing their sexual identity or learning of an accurate representation of what their ancestors experienced, is.

Hi welcome to Boards, you'll fit right in.

And to clarify, you are the one who used the words Nazis, not me. But you do have a point. They felt emboldened enough to fly the flag in Florida recently didn't they.

How are they my buddies? Sorry to disappoint but I don't know enough about them to be a fan.

But let me ask you this, if you had to express support for either an anti-facist organisation, or a white supremacist one, which one would you give your vote to?

Except you did, you choose to post a picture of what I presume is people being identified as one of those groups.

Irish government parties have ways to improve, but I wouldn't put them in the same category as others who I am referring to here in terms of how they have been influenced, and how they are focused. I personally see Irish government parties as central as they come.

And what I am referring to in the OP, I am not specifically saying that all of it or the people involved are 'far right' in the conventional sense. Though some of them definitely are and all of them are far right as to be problematic.

I don't agree with a lot of right leaning philosophies, but I can understand the basic principle amongst those who up to and including the region of centre right. The state I live in has a Republican Governor and I have little issue with their policies. But they specifically and expressly went against the narrative that many others adopted after taking Trumps lead. And that is some of the danger I am talking about.

This is the type of dangerous narrative right wing mouthpieces push.

While the Ukraine is under attack from Russia, Candace identifies their President as being the dangerous one. And the text above her tweet, is what she previously said about Hitler.

Candace is one of the Conservative mouthpieces who appears regularly on Fox News pushing narratives such as these. This is nothing new, Ann Coulter did it before her and there are others like her. And of course there are Liberal mouthpieces as well of course, but the difference is that they are generally talking about advocacy in some form whereas this angle is empowering dictators and fascists.

And while Trump and his inner circle have spent years pushing a false narrative about being concerned about election integrity, aside from what is going on in electoral boards in GOP controlled disctricts across the country, this is what is happening in reality.

Who doesn't want election integrity? It's one of those things that it's a no-brainer position to have but where it gets dangerous is when your actions behind the scenes show how little you really care about it but the key players are fairly confident they'll get away with it because of their PR channels and individuals and the influence they hold. This is the Chief of Staff of the President who incited an insurrection on the basis of claims about the election having been stolen. You would think that if they really were concerned, or even half concerned about election integrity, there would be zero questions about their own vote integrity, and yet, we have this, or Trump begging official to find only enough votes to allow him to win. And they've been getting away with it because some people don't look closely enough to see what is really happening and too many either don't care or actually think the end justifies the means and so they don't complain about it.

So it's the left's fault because the right have behaved in a particular way? That makes no sense.

What has gained momentum in the last 10/20 years which has influenced the crapness that has happened in recent years and is happening now?

Social media. It has been the biggest gamechanger in the last 20 years as it has given bad faith actors a conduit to individual people that has never before been seen. And this conduit has been filled with fake news, and propaganda that has influenced the understanding of and perception of the actions of significant individuals in the political space and entire voting groups.

Here's what went on around Brexit

And as we have seen, the reality of Brexit is very different from that which was promised and in the same way, the reality of Britain in the EU was very different from what those who wanted them to leave said it was.

And here from one of the people involved in setting up Cambridge Analytica which was heavily implicated in the above and goings on around the 2016 US election.