It’s been reported that in the German elections, a far right party has made ‘significant gains’.

In the UK (at least before the scandals) Reform UK seems to have had a significant boost and has even surpassed the right-wing Conservative Party in some polls/predictions.

Even France, one or two years ago, was threatened with a far-right government due to the French far right party gaining a lot of support.

It feels like in the last few years, the far-right has exceeded itself and had a surge in popularity. Is this the case? And if so, wtf is fuelling it?

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
    64·
    3 days ago

    So we’ve got:

    • Trump winning seemingly out of nowhere so people trying to emulate that
    • just good ol racism
    • “white erasure”
    • conservative backlash against progress feeling like it’s “their turn”
    • the Christian doomsday evangelicalist people who want to jump start the rapture by manipulating the wars and politics in the middle East while also controlling everyone in their own country
    • the tech bros who think a different apocalypse is going to happen, partially because of a fandom for a Harry Potter fan fic, who are trying to either make real AI as soon as possible or just ditch the rest of humanity to live in a bunker
    • good ol sexism
    • good ol homophobia n transphobia
    • capitalism
    • dude deciding to get a sandwich, which led to Nazis.
    • Leftists not being able to get their shit together/following through with things, especially in the US which led to point 1.
    • social media trying to make money off of what should be free using algorithms that oopsie radicalize people and not oopsie on purpose radicalize people.
    • did I mention the Nazis?

    That’s just off the top of my head, and from what little I know in the States. Also I wasn’t kidding about any of these.