Right Wing Tendencies

there is a worrying growth of the right, especially the extreme right in europe right now (the date is mid 2014). i think this ties in, a lot, to what i said elsewhere, the growing chasm of people following ideals, and those who do not. as there is also a second thing to this tendency, to this chasm. which is the all-out assault against the mind, the intellect, the capability to think, to reason, to imagine, that is going on now, that become total somewhen around the year 2000. how does this tie in to the rise of the right? because, in the end, all their positions, all their moving, comes down to this. don't think, don't reason, don't criticise, don't questions. it is seen in their stance about gender issues, homosexuality and such, for example. to them, a man is a man, a woman is a woman, a man "dates" only a woman, and so in. so is it to them, so was it always to them. now what freaks them out that people have started to think about this. and started to question, to debate, to talk. about gender, about sexuality. and this scares them beyond belief. that people use their mind about the question of gender now. or rather, that people use their mind at all, to this extent. so they want that gender is accepted "as it was" and is not debated, not intellectually addressed, not thought about.
the same, in a different way, is about the concept of "races", ethnics and such. for them it is like this: "whites" were always superior, the others lesser. do not question this! do not think about it! do not *think*. keep it this way. also, this anti-intellectualism ties in in another way with racism. which is that there has been a 180 degree change in racist ideology, which obviously has not been noticed by many yet. the racism of the past was build around the idea that the "other races" were of inferior intellect, the white of superior intellect. "dumb niggers", "not good for anything". now it is the total opposite: they are afraid of "arabs", of "gypsies", of "blacks", because they think that they hide something that the "liberals" don't see; that they are cunning, sticking together, developing secret plans, to undermine society, moral, ethics. essentially, what the racists are now implying, but not saying or realising, is that "whites" are dumber than the other "races". it is always portrayed in a way that there is a society of "whites", who are simple-minded but honest in intentions, who do not realise the too-clever plan of the "arabs" or the "jews" or the "blacks" yet to undermine everything yet. (in regard of jews this was actually part of the "old fashioned" racism too; but it is new for different "ethnics"). it's obvious that this is part of a wider anti-intellectualism - the "arab" who has a too clever plan and is therefore to be feared but fought against.
we have covered, sexuality and "ethnicity" yet; it should be easy to see how the other right wing tendencies are anti-intellectual in origin too.
and yes, this is the big thing, the big problem; the all-out war that is going on against intellectuality, against the mind and the ability to think, in almost every aspect of society in the moment; in art; in politics; in culture. it is a worrying, dangerous tendency. but it is time that those who find themselves at the other side of this conflict, to stand up and struggle for their cause too.