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Alternative for Germany has joined France's National Rally and Reform U.K. in becoming the most popular party in its country, according to polls.

A poll Tuesday showed Alternative for Germany — which is under surveillance by the country’s intelligence services over suspected extremism — is now the most favored by voters. The survey by broadcaster RTL put the AfD at 26%, ahead of the ruling Christian Democrats at 24%.

This is a high watermark for the European far right, a once fringe movement whose virulently anti-immigration, anti-Islam and culture-war politics were shunned by the mainstream just a decade ago.

Today, these parties have developed deep ties with President Donald Trump and his Republican allies, who openly cite nationalists such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as inspirations on policy and tactics.

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[–] knowone@slrpnk.net 33 points 4 days ago (20 children)

So glad the liberals, both in government and voters, that always lead us to fascism are so invested in shit like "respectability politics", politics "being boring" and being on their supposed intellectual high horse because "emotions are bad, you should never raise your voice when people are starving and being genocided, you're just the same as the far right." But then while saying this just doing mostly what the far right want, pretending it's somehow their idea. It's really working so well to stop them.

But then the liberals would happily throw us into fascism if it meant there was an "I told you so" they could somehow twist out of it to say to the left

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is because our empires declined, since which we’ve hidden behind Uncle Sam’s skirts, and now US hegemony is also beginning to fade. People go to reactionary populism when they’re afraid.

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago
[–] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 days ago (10 children)

It's easy to blame Russia and China, but it's not really that. It's clear that this is a symptom that something is wrong, and that is stagnating or worsening living conditions, unhappiness with how society operates and people hearing that turn to reaction.

Left doesn't have an answer given how marginalized they are, all you get are center-lib parties that pretend everything is okay or that focus on liberal middle class issues. It's no surprise

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Cause the far right did so well for the UK (Thatcher, Brexit, Boris, Liz Truss) - they want more????

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[–] TheWeirdo@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

Thanks Liberalism, preciate it! /s

[–] Aetherion@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, but I'm about to go the escapism route.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I would like to escape (physically) but where to?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ooof. That’s 50% of people who are CDU or AfD voters. As an immigrant in Germany, that’s terrifying.

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Not really surprising, social networks are dividing people up and rather than recognize it, people on all political isles are following up with more barriers, essentially demolishing the need for an objective truth for democracies to work in. Social networks as of now are social slaughterhouses designed to lull in people like cattle and turn enough of them into pawns for those with pockets.

You identify issues that certain groups will crowd around divisively, you foster them into ridiculously zealotry, and you break them up into small bubbles you can politically manipulate. Take Reddit - before they used to think they would have more power by focusing on centralized communities that got legitimacy from rigorous contributions, now they are perfectly ok with each community being taken up by whatever brigade is interested in them and whereas communities like T_D were banned before, now they are actively encouraged for each international, localized domain of users.

[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago

So it appears that ~30% of people in any given population are evil. That tracks.

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

My fellow Europeans, fight! Keep fighting until we drive them back to their basements!

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