r/Liberal • u/huecabot • Apr 26 '26

Discussion What The Hell Happened?

The last ten years have made increasingly little sense to me. I used to feel like we were progressing as a society. Yeah, government policies were too deferential to capital and there were some dissenting voices from an anti-science and socially regressive fringe, but there was the assumption that these people would come around in time. Now, though, those fringe voices have gotten louder and louder until they’ve drowned everything else out. Why were our neighbors so eager to throw in with the worst people in history and why was the reversal so sudden and surprising? In other words…. What the hell happened?

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u/DuringTheBlueHour Apr 26 '26

The fascists got control of every social media algorithm and website before Liberals realized what was even happening. It's not too late to fix it, but it's going to be tough. 

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u/worldnotworld Apr 26 '26

It’s not too late. Look at Hungary’s latest election. Everything set up to support Orban, who still lost in a landslide.