"Will we ignore other warning signs of another possible impending global conflict? The second world war was caused in major part by aggressive rightwing populist politicians bearing nationalist grievances who rose to power by widening and exploiting racial hatred and economic discontent. Their crude rhetoric spread hatred, mass violence and widespread murder."
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Dennis Glover
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"We are entering a new age of savagery and organised lying that would have been almost unthinkable in western democracies just a generation ago. As in the 1930s, our society is becoming increasingly irrational, frightening and violent. And this is mirrored in the coarsening of our political language and the daily workings of our political system, where populists routinely lie, peddle conspiracy theories, and stoke racial, cultural, gender and class divisions...
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"...as they attempt (with increasing success) to create a voting base for themselves. Cultural elites were declared enemies of the people in fascist and communist countries in the 1930s and are regularly denounced as such today. Our culture wars are nothing new."
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"The conclusion is clear: in many easily recognisable ways, the history of the 1920s and 30s is already repeating. It’s all happening before our very eyes and yet few see it because we have stopped thinking of our situation in historical terms. Will the global conflict that the savagery of those times led to also repeat? It’s time to look in the mirror."