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Until a war, famine or plague was terrible enough to make people realize that most of their social differences weren’t as important as they thought and they had to rally round an ideal to survive.

It ended with guillotines.

Evil always gets ahead because it's willing to do anything to "win." Good? Not so much. (Well actual good, anyway - not that fake shit that does things claiming their "Good Book" backs them up on it, for example.)

The only reason Good gets control every so often is because Evil is too focused on "winning" & ultimately inadvertently destroys its own foundations in order to do so. Once it figures out how to avoid that, we're really screwed.

The closest example of that I can think of is China's current leader. I'll grant many will somewhat rightly claim he's done a lot of good over there, but he's definitely accomplished a fair bit of it through some significant evils.

It lasted most of history. It seems like every time society shifts to the left, it only lasts for a few generations before it dies under autocratic control.

Yes, in 1930s. Lasted till 1945.

Humans being awful is most of our entire written history. Bill Wurst has the cliff notes:

https://youtu.be/xuCn8ux2gbs

The powerful made themselves divine deities directly or made up religions where the deity gave them power over others. Conquest, war, rape, tribalism, raids, corruption, oppression, suppression, slavery, spice trade, disease, volancoes causing crop failures and wiping out empires, or causing starving pirate raids who did the same, ice ages causing genetic bottle necks where we almost go extinct, whatever.

You could read David Mitchell's recent book "Unruly" about the ~1600 years of violent dumb misery following the fall of Rome just in the land whuch became the U.K. if you like. Pretty dry material but he does his best as a comedian to get through it all. It's a very long list of short lived Kings (and a couple Queens) murdering each other and peasants while the Northerners did the same and eventually settled and interbred and continued murdering each other and living short violent dumb lives. A lot of them aspired to be like a fictional King Arthur. There's your yearning for past glories. A little like today. It's not real, it's fantasy.

Until the printing press and the renaissance, sort of. Temporarily destabilised the powerful. Kinda like the internet. Or radio broadcast I suppose. The old guard didn't know how to exploit it at first. Printing press fucked up the massively corrupt Catholics at the time, fresh off their crusades and coming up with the idea of paying money to get into heaven. They really hated the idea of peasants learning how to read too. Martin Luther had a bunch of reasons they sucked. One was a complaint about how many little boys each priest kept. Nothing new under the Sun.

Relating any of it to the "right wing" becomes incoherent in a hurry when trying to compare things to modernity. Conservatives are what Royalists became after people kept cutting Royal heads off. Suffice to say though, it was shit fucking awful almost all the time humans have existed.

Looking to the future with climate change in a few hundred years and I expect way more extremism and a lot of death fighting and starving over the dwindling habitable land near the poles.

Eventually the Sun gets too hot even if we were perfect and peaceful and the oceans boil into space. Long before the Red Giant phase swallows the scorched Earth entirely. The end.

Anyways, I've deliberately sterilised myself.

The fascist times throughout Europe. It was at a different time in each country.

Before, there weren't what we would call democracies, but some were democracies at an early stage. Later, people learned to get along with people who voted for other parties.

I'd say all of history until 1968?

Look for the grift in every single country you mentioned, because ultimately, that's the goal. They want the power and control of money. A narcissist is probably behind every one too. They think they can do it.

It constantly goes in cycles, three steps forwards, two steps backward.

I think the best thing to do is just find our own alternative communities. Make our own hangouts. Our own clubs. We can still live life and be happy even if the rest of society is shit. Depending on how this upcoming elections goes. I might go underground. Just disconnect from society. Stop talking to normies outside of business. I will have put in my 35 years of fighting. I don't want to be miserable my entire life. I don't want to argue with people my entire life. Maybe it's just impossible to connect with people who arent like us. That doesn't mean we have to be sad. It doesn't mean we have to be alone. We can make our own spaces. Stay off the grid and under the radar. Have fun and have our own culture with people who like us.