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| Dante9 said: The left has been running the show for so long in Europe that they are shocked to find out there are other ways of looking at issues. Not saying everything is necessarily great on the far right, but there clearly is a need and a call for new perspectives. |
...Where exactly? Germany was run for the longest time by a party that's to the right. France has had exactly one leftist presidential term since 1995. The UK had a long run of rightist governments, which led to a landslide win for the kind of leftist party - which turned out to actually be quite centrist. Poland had a long rightist run. Italy had a long run of centre-right rule, followed by a fairly chaotic period of various governments, most of which seem either leftist or center. Since 1996, Spain has alternated between leftist and rightist governments, but currently there's a 8-year period of leftist rule with a high but improving unemployment rate and decent GDP growth, if I'm not mistaken.
It seems we're both Finnish, and starting from 2003, we've had two leftist governments, one of which couldn't even pull off proper leftist politics due to the pandemic and war in Ukraine. In general, the trend's been right-leaning or straight up rightist.
I don't know what the situation looks like in other countries, but I think that covers a lot already, and I bet it's not too dissimilar in other countries either. To me, saying the left has run the show seems like cherry-picking at best. If it's social issues, immigration etc. you're actually referring to, it seems the issue is that even the right has been running similar enough policies regarding them, in which case you can hardly blame the left.
Last edited by Zkuq - on 08 September 2026
