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Europe’s rapidly rising right: Hard-right forces are gaining ground ahead of next month’s European Parliament election (www.politico.eu)

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The longstanding effort to keep extremist forces out of government in Europe is officially over.

For decades, political parties of all kinds joined forces to keep the hard-right far from the levers of power. Today, this strategy — known in France as a cordon sanitaire(or firewall) — is falling apart, as populist and nationalist parties grow in strength across the Continent.

Six EU countries — Italy, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia and the Czech Republic — have hard-right parties in government. In Sweden, the survival of the executive relies on a confidence and supply agreement with the nationalist Sweden Democrats, the second-largest force in parliament. In the Netherlands, the anti-Islamic firebrand Geert Wilders is on the verge of power, having sealed a historic dealto form the most right-wing government in recent Dutch history.

Meanwhile, hard-right parties are dominating the polls across much of Europe. In France, far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is cruising at over 30 percent, far ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, according to POLITICO’s Poll of Polls. Across the Rhine, Alternative for Germany, a party under police surveillance for its extremist views, is polling second, head-to-head with the Social Democrats.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I think more bureaucracy, more european funds giving money to their friends, more surveillance and more prohibitions should do the job.

If you want change, start by removing prohibitions, give back freedom of decision how people can live and die, start lowering cost of living by repairing existing infrastructure instead of only destroying it, start destroying monopolies, start promoting small businesses, stop all socialism, start respecting all people and their believes instead of promoting only one single source of truth - we are different, protect native culture, promote traditional family that is roots of europe. Stop promoting and spedning money only on new things and stop taking care of only of yourself.

But what I know. I'm nobody and the best I can hear is I'm under russian influence, I'm racist and I am underman because I dared to think by myself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Ok, let's see how your proposals are faring in the contemporary laboratory of the far right.

If you want change, start by removing prohibitions

Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat

give back freedom of decision how people can live and die

Italy's LGBTQ+ community decries government's attacks on same-sex parental rights

start lowering cost of living

Cost of living in Italy to rise again from September

And so on. Looks like the only things she's delivering is fucking over anyone who looks or lives differently. Keep deluding yourself thinking that screwing over others will solve your problems. You'll have time to relish in your triumph when Europe becomes a shithole and you realize that, after having removed the undesirables, your life is still shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stop socialism, but also stop taking care of only yourself!

So don't be socialist, but also be socialist.

And you wonder why people say you don't make any sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Because there is a difference between socialsim and national socialism that is growing. Those people who allow national socialism to grow are mostly media. I believe that most of people who support national socialism are manipulated because of misunderstanding what socialism and what nationalism is so they say hey you're wearing my country symbols I like you. But they should say hey you're wearing my country symbols and you're socialist so get out of my country you nazi scumbag.

Media today tend to simplify and put equal sign between nationalism and nazism (national socialism) and as a result they allow national socialism to grow instead of nationalism and patriotism to grow and strength the difference between nations but losen the difference between people.

So if you know who you are and where you belong to and you meet people different to you, you don't feel bad but respect both other people and yourself because you know where you're standing.

And that changed in media to become - everyone is equal (no we're not), everyone is capable to do anything (no we're not). They removed work as a way for success and replaced it with being popular and fancy so everyone right now want to be popular not working.

People forgot who they are, we are bombarded that we are citizens of the world, yet we still live as part of certain nation, certain country and certain land and we should start identify with it or we lose our identity and everything will become haos like you decribe it it doesn't make any sense to you because you're bombarded with messages that you belong to the world not bounded by anything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I... What?

If I were to plot all of your positions on the political compass, would that draw Rick Astley...?