It happens more and more often that the ballot boxes explode in our faces. And we don't understand anything, of course. Javier Milei appears in Argentina and Geert Wilderts in the Netherlands and we run, as we did when Trump or Brexit, to find an explanation to reassure us. We need the anxiolytic of the quick response to protect us from the anxiety caused by knowing we are unable to explain to ourselves what is happening.
A rather effective, albeit false, pacifier is the one that attributes the success of the far-right's political offer to the very effective and monopolistic use of social networks to seduce through deception. This argument starts from an admittedly uncomfortable presupposition, as classist as it is funny. Since it goes without saying that only one type of citizen is imbecile and that only the ultra-right is weaving the web of balls. They, the fools; we, the ready ones. Both are false. He lies from all sides and with the same techniques. And there are victims of the barroeria across the ideological spectrum.
There are answers, all of them partial, more solid. One is of exclusively materialist extraction. The economic deterioration of the middle classes, with the social elevator circulating only towards the lower floors, would explain the pessimism curdled in anger that ends up directing the vote towards extremist formations and candidates. At first glance, this argument would serve to explain, for example, what has happened in Argentina.
In Europe, we should add mass emigration that has already changed the cultural and ethnic landscape of many of the continent's countries. A mutation that will continue to be accentuated by the reluctance, almost stubbornness, of Europeans to have children. In the coming years, the shock that always accompanies the process of radical mutation of a culture will increase. And we can add more arguments. This is the case of the increasingly accentuated urban-rural dichotomy. With the big cities and metropolises turned into places shielded from the ultra phenomenon, as opposed to rural areas and small and medium-sized cities expelled from the global circuit. An expulsion that means the inaccessibility to the advantages of globalism, but also the impossibility of escaping its disadvantages.
The kaleidoscope of reasons is multiple and does not end here. It seems even, if one gives up, that too many circumstances coincide in time to escape what seems inevitable in the future. Like when an idea, no matter how bad it turns out, its time is coming. Because there is more. Deeper and harder to notice, but essential to explain to us the charm of the ultra in times of tribulation. And while the classic right and left try to support and guarantee small individual dreams - each citizen's own -, from the extreme positions, even from Miley's libertarianism, even if it seems paradoxical, a dream is invited bigger that aspires to be of masses.
The ultras offer a great life adventure of a group nature. A journey that can only be experienced through the collective. It demands to be integrated into the phalanx, to breathe and walk with it. That is why flags, religion, skin color, place of birth and other signs of group distinction play such a prominent role. Identitarianism yes, but oversized and outside the self. Not focused on small groups, individuality or very particular identitarianism. In fact, these are the projects I fight. Loneliness, a sign of our time and not only among the elderly, the technicalization of our societies, which places us in an already unmanageable uncertainty for many, life hijacked between screens that always reflect oneself, extreme individualism , the forgetfulness of more and more generations to whom the past is already completely unknown, the fragility of the individual when everything becomes changeable - family, work, home, etc. - all this is fertile ground for planting projects served as the great adventure that comes to satisfy the human need to know that it is part of something great and immutable.
It's not just poverty, immigrants, networks. It is that we are short of a collective vital project, something we have always needed like the air we breathe. And this Barataria peninsula today is only offered by the ultras. This is why this defective and dangerous material is increasingly being released. It is the only one in the dream market. Disguising his condition as a nightmare due to the non-appearance of others.
