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Ahead of the European election, striking data shows where Gen Z and millennials’ allegiances lie.

Far-right parties are surging across Europe — and young voters are buying in. 

Many parties with anti-immigrant agendas are even seeing support from first-time young voters in the upcoming June 6-9 European Parliament election.

In Belgium, France, Portugal, Germany and Finland, younger voters are backing anti-immigration and anti-establishment parties in numbers equal to and even exceeding older voters, analyses of recent elections and research of young people’s political preferences suggest.

In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration far-right Freedom Party won the 2023 election on a campaign that tied affordable housing to restrictions on immigration — a focus that struck a chord with young voters. In Portugal, too, the far-right party Chega, which means “enough” in Portuguese, drew on young people’s frustration with the housing crisis, among other quality-of-life concerns. 

The analysis also points to a split: While young women often reported support for the Greens and other left-leaning parties, anti-migration parties did particularly well among young men. (Though there are some exceptions. See France, below, for example.)

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[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How else would you describe it? because part of the problem is that it is absolutely true that white men gave us Trump so hatred to us is kind of justified. Hell, i grew up in a hick town and I have seen how hopeless it is for change in those groups its almost inherent. And all though they are way more reasonable then conservatives liberals still want to ignore that women and minorities vote republican too, in fact two of the most talked about GOP candidates in the primary was a woman and the son of an Indian immigrant. which is a problem, but its still nothing compared to the views of most republicans who think school shootings happen because some dude in a dress read a book to some kids. So yeah, suicide is easier.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don’t you view some trouble in writing out

white men gave us Trump so hatred to us is kind of justified

Followed by

liberals still want to ignore that women and minorities vote republican too

So yeah, suicide is easier.

Clearly it’s not going to change the outcome, just those who get to play

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am talking about numbers though. If white men did not vote we would never see another GOP president. Becuase yeah women and minorities vote for them too, but its still a vast majority of white men.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

You would have non-white conservatives running the GOP

Like those two you just mentioned

Substitute the token minority that they target for someone else if you want but it doesn’t make anything better

We can replace Christian nationalism with Hindu nationalism

Canada’s Conservative Party has promised mass immigration from India/fast tracking any that want to come here because they know they will vote for them. The same would happen with Republicans

Meanwhile our Liberal Party gets booed when they go to mosques because they are pro-gay. We had nationwide protests against gay/trans last summer organized by mosques. Even though the majority participating were your rural white people just because of our demographics

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thats why I said it sometimes felt reasonable. But it also feels like I am making a straw man argument in my mind when I think about it so its hard to talk about. And I just don't see how we can turn that trend around anyway.

And honestly, I think liberal circles have what I see as hidden fascists would love to turn progressivism into a new religion and use it to justify some fucked up shit. But for the sake of solidarity we just have to accept them because at least they might care about the planet and are willing to let gay people marry and don't believe in literal magic.

But social media is filled with so many bots and news sites are written by AI now that I don't even know what's true anymore, so maybe fascism will win no mater what we do and the entire thing is pointless.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

But for the sake of solidarity we just have to accept them because at least they might care about the planet and are willing to let gay people marry and don’t believe in literal magic.

Well, usually at least one of the three

so maybe fascism will win no mater what we do and the entire thing is pointless.

Life is always pointless, just have fun with it

If you don’t want to live in a fascist world then yeah there’s suicide but that just makes it harder for others to not live in it. If you really don’t want a fascist world for yourself then do what you can to allow others to experience a non-fascist world for as long as you can

[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

It's like listening to a carnival mirror talk.