Colonial Empires entire economic growth relied on colonial resources and manpower to enrich their dominant classes. In post colonial times, their tactics changed to attract immigrants from their ex-colonies, without legalizing their status as residents or citizens, so these people would work without any social protections. Far right politics are based on this black market profit driven economy. By pushing the panic button of voters, about foreigners taking jobs, increasing insecurity, and threatening a ‘pure identity’, they make sure to get the cheapest work force giving the maximal results.This allows them two hit two birds with one stone. On one hand they can shut down the social mobility of their own working class, and not have to pay any attention to its grievances, All the while making untold profit from the immigrant workers who are put in a position they can barely refuse. Far right parties have always been the guard dogs of the rich and powerful empathy challenged people. The immigration issue is a cash cow. In Western Europe it has become the ascending ladder of far right political factions, unheard of since WW2. In the USA as well, the more anti-Mexican rhetoric you will hear, the cheaper Mexican work gets, the cheaper US workers salaries get, creating a vicious circle that increases poverty levels for the lower income classes to that of a third world country. In such context, religion without social consciousness, a baffling oxymoron, is on the rise. Helping the poor, the sick, the widow, the orphan, the elderly and the stranger overcome suffering is no longer a priority. Spirituality becomes a self serving tool, a way to inflate the ego instead of healing from it. This is the strange marriage between far right and religious sounding argumentation, where Holy Writing can be quoted to justify selfishness, racism, and violence. In our times, the political spectrum includes these pathological tendencies in almost all western democracies. The poor are blamed for their poverty. The refugees are blamed for having to escape persecution. The elderly who worked all their lives to save for retirement are robbed of their savings by political recanting on previous guarantees. Widows are left destitute. Orphans are not protected. The ones hired to make sure this happens are the far right political parties.
Actually the rise of far right ideology is based on the success of these blame games.
Racism is the name of evil in our generation. Its promotion is a for-profit strategy. The more one can hit on Blacks, Jews, Moslems or Gypsies, the more unaccounted under the table profit can be made, from the stateless workforce, as well as from the hypnotized public. Once a significant electorate is acquired, far right politics can be made acceptable, as is now the case in much of Western Europe. The grave danger, of giving the keys to power to the watchdogs of the rich and powerful empathy challenged egomaniacs, has been proven catastrophic for everyone. Hate speech is manipulative. It is the beginning of social psychosis, which can turn unpredictable and take enormous tolls on a civilization. From the times of the crusades, the world should have learnt these lessons. But it seems that even the horrors of WW2 did not suffice to awaken the world to the dangers of dehumanizing others. We Africans have been systematically targeted by this profit driven madness that pits man against man. Our great leaders warned us that the battle for human dignity was not over. As Emperor Haile Selassie I Of Ethiopia said “Until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation; until men will learn to see each other as they are in God’s eyes…”