It's just not understandable to me how farmer's protests could lead to gains for the political extreme right.
Isn't it obvious that farmers and food systems struggle because of the practices of supermarkets, big business, wrecked government ability to provide policies to prevent toxification of the environment by industry.
The interests of farmers are aligned with the interests of the people, which means their interests are to call a halt to capital's extortion of the planet.
Let farmers reap the rewards rather than ridiculous margins in supermarkets (they'll complain: what margins? we're not turning a profit! have you seen our rents? our energy costs?
Those are arguments that could tempt uniformed liberals to think "ok fair enough, it's just inflation"
but let's remember one important thing: The tiny majority of capitalist shareholders owns the supermarket and the energy company and the landlording real-estate conglomerate. All these "expenses" are, as we say in Holland, "breast pocket - pants pocket - transactions", whose main purpose is to obscure the wealth transfer happening between farm and supermarket shelf - From the farmers and the public, to the wealthy owners of capital & everything else.
And then, those same capitalists own the media which funnels the anxiety, mental health stress, and anger this arrangement causes, into gains for the far-right politicians they bankroll.
fascism is good for business.
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