The Second Rise of Fascism?

Disclaimer: I am no historian, I am no sociologist and no expert in politics. I am just an outspoken engineer who is fed up of this shit. For anyone who might feel offended, vulgar language is used in this article.

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"Go home, you immigrant." 

"Get off the tram, we voted leave." 

"Send them home." 

"Get off the bus and get packing."

"How come you're so cheerful? You're going home."

These are just a few of the harsh words that some people in Britain have been having to face since last the Brexit vote results were announced last Friday. Yes. It is 2016, and still there is a solid number of cunts out there, in what is supposed to be the civilised western world, who decide to disrespect fellow humans trying to go on with their life in peace and quiet. Yes, this is England, and after living here for almost two years, I would have never imagined that rampant xenophobia, racism and nationalistic egoism still existed in our society.

"I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up."

"I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet."

These are the words of Nigel Farage, the man who for seventeen years worked hard, so fucking hard, to destroy the institution that was founded to ensure that no other war would tear the European continent apart, as the second world war had done a few years earlier. We're talking about an institution that won the Nobel peace prize in 2012 for fuck's sake. I am not saying that it is perfect. I am not saying that reforms are not needed, but why would one want to destroy an institution that was founded with the sole purpose was peace? 

But okay, lets say he has a fetish for chaos. Who am I to judge? Or it may be that he genuinely believes that it is the wrong institution for the job. Fair enough, lets give him the benefit of the doubt. So he started off seventeen years ago with the dream to break apart the European Union, or at least, get the United Kingdom out of it. But he instantly realised that by making arguments about how the economy would be so much better without it, he would not get anywhere, even though he refuses to admit that his arguments regarding the economy were absolute nonsense, as in fact was proven by markets in the first few days after the Brexit vote. So, the instigation of fear started. The word "immigration" over the years quickly became a buzz word used all over the fucking place by politicians, and the effort that had been made to remove the idea of barriers, of "us and them", the ideas that some of us are better than others, or that we have a certain claim to a country just because we were lucky enough to be born there instead of elsewhere, was all flush down the toilet. Doubts were planted, referenda were promised for some idiots to win an election, lies were spread to the general public, experts were ignored ... and a referendum, four days and three-fucking-trillion-pounds-wiped-off-the-markets later Britain finds itself in a political shit storm, no leader, with several jackasses running around harassing foreigners and with no fucking clue about what to do next.

But this is not the case where this has been occurring. The civil war in Syria has caused millions of people to flee their own country. With Europe as a prosperous neighbour, they quickly tried to make their way over, with the hopes of starting a new life for themselves. And repeat. Several egoistic idiots from all over Europe starting spouting the same bullshit that Nigel Farage had been spouting for a solid number of years already. With Salvini in Italy, Le Pen in France, Wilders in the Netherlands and Petry in Germany amongst others, Nigel Farage's words were echoed to the rest of the masses in Europe, and slowly and steadily, they have been gaining momentum.

The aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis definitely did not help with the situation. As austerity measures were imposed by the political class, the people who didn't really understand what the fuck was going on had no other choice but to start rebelling against them in their own simple ways. 

What is easiest to do when one is faced with a problem? 

1. Admit fault, and try to fix the problem.

2. Blame someone else and let them be the scapegoat.

And who would have guessed it! Apparently it is the second option, and with a mix of anti-political sentiment together with frustration being blamed on foreigners - because lets be honest, these politicians are obviously too proud to admit any fault in the matter - that made the words of the far-right parties echo around Europe. But let me pause my rant about far-right ideologies taking over Europe for a second.

"We're gonna build a wall."

 "Make America great again!"

If you do not recognise those slogans, I am sorry to bear the news for you, but you are a moron. On the other side of the pond, we have the climate-change denying Donald Trump, another dumb ass who is making use of foreigners as scapegoats for the country's problems. But once again, the symptoms are the same. George W. Bush managed to lead the US into two very expensive wars, which together with the 2008 financial crises, put the country into serious economic problems. The people once again, angry at the austerity measures imposed on them, and the lack of jobs and so on, wanted to blame someone, and instead of blaming who is really at fault ... Asswipe Trump comes along blaming the Mexicans - calling them all sorts of insults and proposing to build a fucking wall along the border with Mexico - Muslims - essentially calling every Muslim out there a terrorist, and a bunch of other innocent groups of people, to prey on the nationalistic sense of the idiot rednecks in his own country to make it to power.

So, please tell me, is it just me who is noticing certain similarities with the past here? In the 1930s, the world had just emerged from a serious economic crises with the name "the Great Depression". Nationalistic movements were gaining popularity in Germany and Italy, in the same manner that Wanker Farage, Asswipe Trump, Cunt Le Pen and the others are gaining popularity right now. And for those who do not know what happened back in the 1930's after all of this ... bibbidy bobbidy fucking boo ... behold the rise of fascism, ladies and gentlemen.

And by the way, if you think that this blaming of innocent populations as a scapegoat is happening for the first time, I hope that you do remember some people called the Jews and the Holocaust.

Well, you all know what the proverb says, "History repeats itself". And I genuinely believe that thanks to the European Union, which provided 70 years of peace in the continental Europe, people forgot - actually those who forgot are fucking morons but then again, common sense is not so common in this world - what the atrocities of xenophobia, racism and fascism have led to, and that it is only out of ignorance that they are falling into the same pitfalls that our great-grandparents and grandparents fell into before us.

I am not sure what to say at this stage. I hope I am wrong. I really do. 

Please, for fuck's sake, do not let history repeat itself.

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P.S. : Nigel Farage schooldays letter reveals concerns over fascism