Why are there more fascist anti-imperialists than left anti-imperialists in the West ?

The alignment of anti-imperialists with the fascist far right now seems firmly established in European politics if not US politics as well.

No where is this better illustrated than in German politics, where BSW party nearly got a seat in federal government, whereas MERE25 is nowhere to be seen.*

The way the story is told in mainstream US media is that right wing parties (deplorable) propose abandoning NATO (outrageous!!!).  Never ever is it mentioned that there are left movements, parties, and histories that also opposed NATO from its beginning and still.

(*Germany should not even be considered a representative democracy because the one party that could maybe challenge capitalist rule has been banned since 1956.  The Communist Party was never banned as such in the USA, and ran candidates in US Presidential elections until 1988 after which it decided not to anymore.  Individual Communists, however, were often persecuted by federal and state governments until freedom of speech was clarified by Brandenburg v Ohio in 1969.)

 Melenchon was originally anti-NATO, but now a serious person (as in the rightfully elected) he's become pro-NATO.

Liberal and left leaning people are not permitted, if politically visible, to be anti-Imperialist.  Even though much of the public feels that way, on both counts, they are not allowed to express either sentiment purely (they must instead vote against impending fascist oligarchy and for a weak "liberal" candidate who will basically do nothing to change the status quo for the better) and especially both at once.

But what else should we expect from a fascist capitalist oligarchy?  They're fine with anti-Imperialism, or populism, but only if it's Fascist.

Left anti-Imperialism is in the kitchens, and on the streets, but it's never on TV, in the corporate press, or acknowledged much elsewhere.

Tale of Three Parking Lots

For two years, the San Antonio Philharmonic (formed by the musicians of the San Antonio Symphony after it imploded) played at the First Baptist Church.  The cheap seats started at $30 ($35 for the second year) with a $5 per order charge.  The more expensive seats were $65.  Parking across the street was $10, and you paid the friendly congregation members in cash (and they usually had change for a $20).  Nothing on the parking ticket indicated a limited amount of time.  I often thought of going downtown after a concert to have a snack (but never actually did).  The parking lot has 3 exits on a relatively unused stretch of McCullough Avenue and it never took more than 4 minutes to get out of the parking lot, and usually half that.

The next year the Philharmonic intended to play at 3 different venues, First Baptist (as before), the Majestic Theater (where the Symphony--a predecessor organization--played from 1993-2015) and the Scottish Rite Temple (the new "home").  As the year wore on, most of the Majestic and First Baptist concerts were cancelled.  The prices for the cheapest seats at the Majestic were usually way higher (as high as $78 for the cheapest seats) but often came down to $40 or so a week or so before the performance.* (I paid about $40 after two fees were added to the base price of $25 for a performance of Beethoven Symphony No. 9).  The "average" seats were $78 and the high priced seats were well over $100.    The prices at the Scottish Rite Temple were just a bit lower on all scores.  My all-inclusive price for the Mahler Resurrection two days before the concert was a bargain, just $34 ($25 plus fees).  *When I had checked the price two months before it was at least double that (what I've called price whiplash).  Price Whiplash made it hard for me to convince a budgeting friend to go, and by the time the price came down it was too late.  Things were so messed up in 2024-2025 that maybe it wasn't really that the prices were changing, but somehow they were not being reported properly on the website.  Or maybe the prices came down after the Executive Director observed that not enough tickets were selling at the higher prices.

Parking at the Majestic was in a city lot that charged $15 for "the evening" (stamped no overnight parking).  You typically pay a city employee on the way in or out.  It can easily take 10 or more minutes to get through the traffic to the exit.

The only large lot near the Scottish Rite Temple is the First Presbyterian Church parking lot.  To get a ticket, you must scan a posted QR code and enter your license plate number and credit card into a webpage on your phone.  The posted prices are $15 for the first 2 hours and $15 for each additional 2 hours.  However, a fee is added which raises the $15 minimum cost to $20.78.  The web page immediately starts counting down your remaining minutes with a helpful link to "add more time" at $15 a pop (fees probably adding more again).

Symphonic performances typically last approximately 2 hours, plus or minus 30 minutes.  On May 24 there was a performance of Mahler's Resurrection without intermission which lasted very close to 2 hours.  I arrived with only a minute to spare and when I got back to my car, I was about 3 minutes past the 2 hour time limit.  I then had to wait 22 minutes for the bumper-to-bumper congestion of cars leaving via the one and only exit onto Avenue E to clear so I could get out without being stuck in that.  I still had a short line of cars in front of me.

If I had wanted to be absolutely sure I did not go over the time limit, I would have paid $30 plus fees parking, probably over $40.  This would be especially true if I were coming even more than a few minutes early or staying some extra time afterwards for refreshments and mingling.  The Executive Director of the Philharmonic said we would be able to have refreshments after performances in the fall.  He and former mayor Henry Cisneros spent about 12 minutes talking before the performance.  (I worried that would set me past the 2 hour limit, and in fact, it did.)

The prices at the First Presbyterian parking lot are exorbitant, and limiting the time to 2 hours is antisocial.  It's also very inconvenient to use.