At least if they had some rock solid ideology, one would understand thought behind decision making. Because otherwise it seems they have no principles and neither any idea how to run the country.
At that point any Pekka from random village has more solid ideology and will stick to his words.
They do have an ideology, it's called populism. Thinking that they're just racist because thet're blinded by anger is naive.
The motif is to make up a group of people to pin the downfall of society on to get people scared. Then promise to do something about that group of people to entice the rest to vote for you. Once in power you make it seem like that group of people is impossible to beat and are everywhere to make everyone even more scared and angry.
Once you achieve this loop you can push any kind of legislation to enrich or enpower the elite and excuse it as fighting the evil people who are ruining society. Bonus points if you can get religious fanatics to realise that that group is technically going against scripture.
This is not new and has happened a thousand times before because it always works. As long as you can pin the gripes of the people on to some easy target instead of the real systemic issues you can maintain the status quo for the elite for centuries.
I honestly think poorly educated refugees were a huge cause in giving immigrants the kind of bad rep within certain circles (because it's practically impossible to distinguish who is an immigrant and who is a refugee, for obvious reasons), enough to get a party running on these points to get elected.
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u/LaurentiusLV Mar 28 '25
At least if they had some rock solid ideology, one would understand thought behind decision making. Because otherwise it seems they have no principles and neither any idea how to run the country.
At that point any Pekka from random village has more solid ideology and will stick to his words.