Re: Dorvish News Service (DNS)
Posted: Sun May 06, 2018 8:12 pm
Election 4389: Can Extremism Sweep The Nation? // DNS
April 2nd, 4389
Above: Petra Menager, leader of the NPU, thinks extremism is all too much.
One key question this year is 'how angry are people?'. Anger is a key determiner in whether people start to look to extreme solutions for their problems. The rate of poverty in Dorvik is one of the world's lowest, and incomes are at an all-time high, but there is a large amount of the population that does not feel like it lives in the world's fourth most powerful economy, and it's second greatest military. These people fall into three groups: highly-educated young people, filled with a sense of moral outrage at the injustices of the world; extremely religious rural people, mainly elderly but generally of all ages; the poorest parts of society, poverty-stricken or otherwise downtrodden. The first group seems to be drifting towards communism, to fix the blinding inequalities of Terra, the second drifts to fascism as their culture seems to fade away to globalism, the third is increasingly anarchistic and resentful of a government who have failed them.
It's fair to say Dorvik is a place of astounding wealthy and international connections. Many of the world's most powerful companies call it their home, and Dundorfian has become a world prestige language through Dorvik, not through Dundorf. However, this open approach has caused a great number of reactionaries - the Schwartz family, the history of right-wing parties - to emerge and to set up base camp in Dorvik. This is of direct result to the increasingly out-looking nature of Dorvik, meaning many traditionalists are feeling increasingly like they're having to give up their culture to make way for somebody's else's. This is leading to the rise in far-right politics, particularly fascism, in Dorvik today. Similarly, the government's increasing power and control over state economics and internal policy have led to another extreme solution: anarchism. 'The government is too much', they say - too much as in it exists!
Despite all of the fracas on the authoritarian right and libertarian wing, the authoritarian left is already peaking at a massive point. 274 members of the Federal Assembly are avowedly communist. Yes, many of their voters are leftists who think communism is better than the right, but they still have fanatical supporters. Young, multicultural people - the very opposite to the far-right - are developing a unique sense of social justice. They see the world as inherently unfair under capitalism, and are seeking to uproot the current system and lead the world to a socialist revolution. It all starts in the bastion of the free-market, Dorvik herself, one of the most clear examples of a working economy that institutes regulatory capitalism. This is not far enough, though, to the communists, who are seeking to have government ownership of industry and complete equality. Critics from the NPU in particular have said this kind of politics 'will lead to suppression of rights'. Will we see that warning born-out?
Written by Ida von Schleizwig, DNS politics correspondent