I just wonder whether their hearts are (or have ever been) really in it.

It does seem to me that we hear again and again that poverty and lack of representation is the breeding ground of the far-right, of fundamentalist Islam, of terrorism.

And yet and still they do nothing about it, rather insist on policies that pauperise countries and then demonise the poor. This is accompanied by a concerted turning of a blind eye and a deaf ear to the demands for economic justice.

It seems highly cynical to call e.g Unidos Podemos in Spain, whose policies are basically social democratic, dangerous “extremists” when the far right is everywhere and tolerated.

This seems to imply a preference for channelling discontent into far-right parties. A preference for fascism at some level. When will we learn?