| Ryuu96 said: Austria's far-right winning, Hungary already having a far-right government and the far-right increasing in Germany.
Joking |
But it is a bit worrying, from an individual countries perspective, doesn't help that they all suck up to Russia too.For the german elections it is an interesting statistical information, that the age group 70+ is the only one with lower than average voting share for the AfD (our far-right). Meaning they are pushing the average down. That in Brandenburg already 16+ could vote (instead the more usual 18+) was probably helpful to the AfD.
Maybe it is too long since people experienced the results of war (ven 70+ are mostly post-war kids, but even post-war times was still strongly influenced by the results of war).
The other thing is, that the "normal" parties are getting more and more corrupt over time, sucking up to big companies. People are fed up with it for good reason, but voting far-right will not help in that regard (well, a big war would reset politics, as it would reset mostly everything, but this is not a good thing). In my opinion only a strong left - which means anti-capitalist - politics will help. Only that is supported by less than 5% of people, the liberal propaganda of how the markets will save us all has worked.
I also would add: a result of about 30% maybe a bit more is in line with historical voting share of the NSDAP (the party which was shortened to Nazi). As far as I know also other european countries had such voting shares for fascist parties. Here in germany many tell that propaganda turned peoples heads and made them vote NSDAP, in reality most germans were innocent, it was all Hitler and his honeyed tongue. The more I look into it, the more it seems Hitler and the NSDAP were pretty clear about what they wanted, about a third of people just is fine with it. And if non-Nazi politics has corrupted the system enough to piss everyone off, then these far-right will find their ground. The longer I live and see stuff, the more I think that about a third of people are just naturally far-right. They just need an excuse and an opportunity to show their colors.
