The truth is also what you do not tell
You rarely see right wing populists focus on important issues that would need careful investigation, planning, cooperation and great efforts, like:
- References to research and science in general.
- Climate change and environmental policies
- Rather than engaging with complex macro-political issues, right-wing populism tends to dismiss them with simple non-argumentative denials. This is most evident in its rejection of established science on global warming.
- Women’s rights and women’s rights to control their own body
- Science-based approaches to major disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires, and the COVID-19 pandemic
- Unequal distribution of resources
- Tax cuts for the rich
- Labour rights and unionisation, economic redistribution
- The importance of a free independent press in safeguarding freedom of speech, in informing voters, countering disinformation and providing political criticism
- How to control online disinformation and protect democracy against it
- To protect the constitutional separation of powers among three branches in most democracies-judiciary, legislature, and executive
- Support for international cooperation such as the United Nations, WHO, the Paris Climate Accords, The International Court of Justice, The International Criminal Court or other multilateral bodies and international conventions and treaties
- Public healthcare expansion
- Progressive eduction reforms with emphasis on inclusivity, critical thinking or teaching about systemic inequalities
- Positive effects of immigration
- Telling the undramatic stories of the vaste majority of refugees and immigrants who live peacefully and get up early every morning to go to work
- Racism and ethnical discrimination
- Sexual exploitation committed by individuals in positions of power
- Support for Pride
- Discrimination of sexual minorities
- Militarism
- Peace building
- War and conflict forcing refugees to flee their home countries.
- Refugee rights, as formulated by the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.
- Mass shootings and gun accessibility
- Police violence
- Right wing violence and terrorism
- Religious extremism by other than muslims
- Conspiracy theories
- Fascism and neofascism