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This episode isn't comfortable. It doesn't intend to be. Today I open pages that many would like to close: dictatorships that crushed voices, crimes hidden under flags, and silences that still scream. You will hear fragments of memory and analysis that are unsettling. Because to remember is to resist. Because forgetting is also violence.
As fate would have it, Portugal, our neighbour, which suffered a dictatorship, has also decided to allow the far right to return.
Researching the topic, I wondered if this is due to some sociological phenomenon.
The sociological keys:
The breaking of the generational taboo: For young people, 1974 is distant history. They don't vote out of fear of the past but out of frustration with the future.
The housing problem and low wages in Portugal have pushed a precarious generation towards radical solutions. The protest vote against the elites: There is a deep-seated weariness with corruption and the traditional two-party system. Many sociologists see this vote not as ideological support for fascism, but as a "cry for help" from rural and peripheral areas that feel forgotten by Lisbon.
System fatigue: When public services (healthcare, transportation) fail for years, the "clean up the system" discourse resonates deeply. The far right has been better at channelling this anger than anyone else on social media.
"TikTok Politics": Both Vox and Chega have understood that in the age of fragmented attention, nuance doesn't sell. Both use:
Hyper-simplified messages.
Shocking external culprits (immigration or Brussels elites).
Direct channels that circumvent the control of traditional journalists.
If this story moved you, share it. If you think there's something that shouldn't be kept quiet, write to me. We'll talk in the next episode.
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