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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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[-] Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It isn’t rocket science, people become uneasy when they see or at least perceive there to be an influx of newcomers, they don’t even need necessarily to be from a different race or culture. It’s simply a fact that isn’t going to change any time soon. And more and more people globally are going to be on the move as the climate breakdown and more wars break out. If you don’t want to see populists thriving then you need to put in the leg work to slow the pace of change that people see and reassure them.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago
[-] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

Canada got the message. Why don't you?

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[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The US is a huge cautionary tale that other countries would do well to heed. I see "Why don't the Americans do something??" all the time, but meanwhile, your country is creeping towards the same conclusion. "We'll do something to stop it if it gets too bad!" Yeah, that's what we said while the far-right continued to gather support.

[-] CircaV@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Far right parties are a product of stupidity and foreign money. The stupidity of the establishment parties in Europe ignoring the people's will on immigration enabled the far right, and Putin's Russia gave them the means to run with it.

These parties are here to stay unless the establishment parties take the Denmark approach and become more anti immigration.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A Brit told me

I vote for whomever says they will get rid of the boat people

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[-] lack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks Elon, for your financial support of Hitler acolytes worldwide. Also, get fucked you Boer-reject piece of shit

[-] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Honestly, this is way past that point now.

I know an otherwise perfectly normal middle-aged woman who has booked herself train tickets to a pro-Tommy Robinson protest march in London next month.

It's not National Front skinheads with dog whistle tattoos any more. It's hit the normies. If they want the normies back, the ruling parties are going to have to stop putting asylum seekers in local hotels in shithole towns like mine, because it's just going to take a spark to set this whole country ablaze right now. They need to get processing people to an insane level, build actual accommodation to house them (because this isn't stopping any time soon).

The whole asylum process needs a radical overhaul, like being able to apply for it without having to trek across the world (go to an embassy for example, and then get distributed to countries according to their means). If they carry on with this "we have to take them in because they made it to our country and it's the law" routine, the whole continent will fall to fascism. If sane rulers do not listen to the people, they will turn to monsters to fix their perceived problems.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

It seems that democracy is beyond saving in the age of social media and all the misinformation that circulates there. I mean, you can't be that incredibly stupid if you live even halfway in reality.

You only have to look at the US to see very clearly how corrupt the goddamn neo-Nazis are and that the promises they make to their ignorant voters are nothing but lies. It's more than obvious that the US fascists are pursuing policies that are by no means in the interests of the people, but rather the work of a criminal syndicate, which is what they truly are. There is no difference between these barbarians and those in Europe – they are all agents of the power hungry billionaires and do nothing but pursue their interests, which is of course at the expense of the citizens.

Anyone who still doesn't understand this is living entirely in the imaginary parallel world that the Nazis have built together with their financial backers.

Since this obviously affects so many people and these people cannot be convinced with rational arguments, it is probably hopeless.

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