This is shaping up to be the thing right wing nuts get outraged about this upcoming week. I feel like this is a good litmus test… anyone who gets angry about this is probably way more of a white nationalist than they are letting on. You think these same people who be angry about a blue/white/orange tricolor, saying it’s too close to the Dutch flag?
Why do reactionaries get so damn mad about flags being changed? Are they just so reactionary that literally any change at all sends them into a frothing at the mouth rage? Do they go to Starbucks and order a coffee and just blow up at the cashier when they say "here's your change."?
What other culture do they have?
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I think you nailed it.
They've been whipped into a frenzy, believing that there is a plot against them where the evil people seek to literally kill them and everything they hold dear in life (meaning, a life like in a 1950s sitcom). Every change is seen as a means to that end and they keep getting angrier.
Especially since neoliberalism encourages many of the things they're deathly afraid of (for example "open borders [at least in the propaganda they use] and immigration are good because people are not getting enough children and we need people to come work for us" or "We need to make sure Ukraine wins for the sake of human rights. For that we must all suffer a bit economically, [as Russian trade is cut off and cheap workforce and companies from Ukraine flood the EU market]")
Meanwhile socialism is both discredited by propaganda (making it universally agreed on that it is bad for the nation - something both libs and Fascists hold dear), and appears eternally split on what the right considers the most important questions.
Those are horrible times. The libs either agree with the chuds with a "Yes, but you're bad people" (I saw a debate recently between a far-right politician and a former government minister from the 80s, and when the lib said the AfD wanted to deport immigrants - he replied that that's exactly what the Scholz government was supporting.) and only disagree on the basis of foreign policy. Meanwhile socialists are still dead, and by the natural attrition of time, we only get less each year.
Pretty much, yeah.