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The cause for more fascist is that overall for more people it is worse.. Why is it worse? Cost of living is up, no one can buy a house, press is telling that its the fault of Immigrants or the people that cant work.. meanwhile it is because of the few rich that hoard everything. You saying that being friends with someone being gay makes you gay is absurd. I dont mind anyone being gay i mind being friends with someone that Wants to kill foreigners.. One is smth you cant choose (the being gay) one is choosing to be scum.. Afd Wants to deport anyone that even has parents that are not White.. It is not about people that contribute but about skin color..
Or, maybe, the parties in power do not understand anymore what people need/want.
Just an example, last week in Italy we had a strike, organized by the Left wing parties and the biggest labor unions, against the war in Palestine. Now, for how bad the situation in Palestine can be, do you really think that a family in Italy that are living on the edge of poverty because of the low salary and few jobs (which lower the salary because there is always someone who are willing to work for less if the alternative is no job and eventually you can pay under the table an illegal immigrant) with the problem of putting 3 meals a day on the table for his children really care about it ?
It is true that more people vote for Right and fascist and that happen because it is worse for more people and the point is that all the other parties do not understand it and they continue to do the same things that make it worse for more people.
It is not a coincidence that AfD begin to grow after the illegal immigrant became too much. It is not a coincidence that Fratelli D'Italia won the elections after the PD+M5S focused only on the illegal immigrant and other questions concerning a very little number of people.