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What’s fuelling the rise of the far right? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Information warfare is almost entirely responsible for this.

May be true. The US based conservatives keep posting about "immigrant problems" in Europe, and how immigrant criminals seem to get off with light or no sentences. So bad that one person I know in real life thought they were going to run into literal rape gangs when they visited the UK for work.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago*

    To be fair those people are scared to death of American cities too: that’s like a major factor of the culture war. Big scary city versus Noble country boys. Communist lawless Europe versus, lawful meth ridden, yet free, America!!

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