#right-wing-politics

#right-wing-politics

Hello, I'm Rayne, and I'm a lapsed Catholic. I fell away from the Church over a period of time, beginning roughly with the Reagan years and the uptick in Christian fundamentalism's influence on politics. It didn't happen all at once but I finally had enough when the Church became little more than a crypto-fascist mouthpiece for right-wing ideology, focusing almost exclusively on anti-abortion efforts instead of what I was taught were Christ's teachings.

There is a part of the right that is extraordinarily conspiratorial and sees Jews as a conspiratorial force. It is rising because social media rewards it. On X and TikTok, you often get more clicks if you push anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric. Shapiro said young people are drawn to the conspiracy theories because of the message that the problems in their own lives are not their fault, and they can be solved by externalizing those problems onto a different group.

"They understand that what they're doing is devastating, and they're doing it anyway," says Astra Taylor, emphasizing the danger posed by right-wing movements.

Despite some right-wing figures attempting to falsely link the Minnesota shootings to Democrats, evidence suggests the suspect was a supporter of Donald Trump.

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Musk stated that he plans to significantly reduce his political spending in the future, indicating he's had enough of financial contributions to campaigns.