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During the latest speeches of the representatives of the right fair parties, the idea is the same in the different countries, we still keep repeating the same patterns, and, it seems, the same mistakes. Are we really giving all this support to far-right parties?

Yesterday, I was reading newspapers about political changes in Spain and how many recent actions are changing the structure of the parties as well. It seems, as I wrote before, that migrants are being used to creating more instability in governments, as in Spain with the migratory problems in Ceuta and Melilla.
Besides, am I the only one noticing how all the far-right parties are basing their political campaigns on immigration? I can understand that it might be part of the problem, but it is not *the* problem.
Let’s take a brief aside here: the ones who created instability in the vast majority of countries where these immigrants come from were the developed nations, always in a desperate search for cheap raw materials. We now even exploit cheap labor to handle our waste disposal, but that is the least of it; it was the developed nations that sold arms to struggling countries and fueled instability and ethnic conflict. Yet, these same nations now refuse to accept immigrants or use the media to spread misinformation, turning the narrative against unfortunate people whose only "crime" was being born in countries rich in resources.
But the average European certainly doesn't want to dwell on the fact that the root problems aren't the Moroccan or African person dying during the crossing to Europe. Instead, the strategy is to put them through hell to convince them it is better to stay home, working for a company from a developed nation while watching their loved ones die from diseases caused by waste or uncontrolled resource exploitation, and then we just slap on a Band-Aid, tell them everything will be fine, and warn them: "Don't you dare come to our home."
You'll have to cross the ocean, or if I catch you, you’ll end up in concentration camps, or maybe even have to cross the desert. Why not? And if, while waiting those four or five years for documents, you misbehave or act the way you do in your underdeveloped countries, we’ll send you back to where you were first registered, like Italy, and there, the dear Italians will be ready to take you to a concentration camp in Albania.
Of course, everything works perfectly here, after all. Meanwhile, there are political parties treating these migration flows as an absolute evil, something to be fought with even more controls and walls. And why not add more camps to house them, too?
Naturally, nobody cares about the climate crisis or the fact that temperatures have been stuck at 40 degrees for four months; we’ll just solve that with electric cars. We certainly won’t make it a central political issue, because it doesn’t sell as well as attacking the weak or defenseless. Let’s look at public health: rates of mental health issues keep rising, yet the healthcare system isn't part of a winning campaign strategy, let’s give free rein to anger instead, because that sells.
We are seeing the trend loud and clear, confirmed by events in Germany and the rise of the AfD, a nationalist, far-right party. So much for the idea that we’ve learned from the last century; clearly, our collective memory is no better than a goldfish's. Yet, the propaganda from these parties continues to garner increasing support. We see it in Spain, where right-wing parties are gaining momentum following the Ceuta crisis, and in Italy, where far-right rallies are gradually drawing larger crowds, all driven by the same tired, baseless rhetoric that exploits anger to win votes. I stand back and wonder if we’ve truly learned anything at all. Sadly, I am increasingly convinced that our collective memory is worthless; furthermore, it takes very little to destabilize a country, or even an entire continent. Certain nations are experts at this, we know which ones, leveraging the high demand for oil and control over key straits.
I really want to come back to this point.
