It is well known that the rise of fascism is allowed when the left start to show unrest. This then permeates through into mainstream politics so that they can put the left back in to its box.
We are witnessing this very thing happen here in the UK, with groups such as the EDL springing up and the more recent example of the Ukip result in Eastleigh where they leapfrogged the Tory party into second place behind the Lib Dems in the recent by election there. Across
Europe too we see this occurring with Greece's Golden Dawn party, Le Pen's Front National and Italy's Northern League all taking prominent steps of influence in the political sphere.
The fragmentation of the left does not help the situation. The scenes across social networking sites last year regarding Julian Assange and the allegations of sexual assault proving a timely boost for the right. Add to this the damage done by a decade of spin, lies, war and the political positioning of the flag ship party in this country, Labour, of being centre left trying to win influence over the centre right, which Mo Ansar has recently described as being "ever further right" and it leaves us all with very real problems and should deeply concern us all.
The bush fires we are now seeing around the world, with recession and war, are no different to that of the situation pre-1914.
The perpetual fuelling of hatred and mistrust amongst the people by the media is allowing these policy makers to attack the very core values of freedom and democracy (or the illusion of it at least) that we believe in and leaves us all living in very dangerous times, which will affect this and future generations for decades to come.
If we are to face these issues as a society then we need to start taking individual ownership of the problem and work as a collective. We need to challenge the rhetoric of the establishment and media and not wait for the work to be done by a select minority of well intended people.
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