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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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[–] -3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Where? All of your claims are still wrong when you consider the entire world not just your neighborhood.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    A country where the alt right is on the rise.

    A country where everything is better than 30 years ago I would assume the alt right would have probably not growth that much.

    Housing cost increase, for instance, is happening in all Europe, which is one of the places of the world where the alt right is skyrocketing their electoral results.

    For instance Germany, where latest elections have shown a worrying rise of AfD has this chart of house prices.

    https://econtribute.de/wp-content/uploads/abbildung_4_en.jpg

    The graph shows a blimp down in 2024, but in recent data the prices are already rising again in 2026.

    Also my country is not a neighborhood, it's a 50 million people place, and one of the biggest countries of the EU who might fall to an alt right government as soon as 2027. And live being much better in other countries is not something people who vote here take into consideration, they value how their own lives have been getting better or worse. Saying that "spme other country in the world" is going better have zero relevance when talking about alt right rising in specific countries.

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