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It’s not just boomers, young people are voting far right too (www.politico.eu)

submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave to c/world

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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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[–] undergroundoverground 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Clearly you think yourself far smarter than you are. Especially considering you can't even see yourself fall foul of the fallacy you claim to see. As adorable as it is, I remember when I first found out about fallacies too, its a bit boring and it wouldn't make me wrong either. That is if you bothered learning any of the other fallacies.

Let me help you, as you're clearly struggling here: why is it that only the Europeans, in this instance, that have to own their crap? Why are we not allowed to consider any other contributing factors? How is me mentioning another factor, while not denying the problems at home, not owing it?

It doesn't make sense does it?

[–] afraid_of_zombies 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

[–] undergroundoverground 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Bless your little heat. Like I said, I remember when I first discovered fallacies too. So, I understand why you think they're news for other people. Ironically though, again, you forgot the fallacy fallacy.

As in, even if you weren't wildly wrong and falling foul of the very fallacy you claim to see, it still wouldn't make my position wrong.

So, rather than post things you clearly don't understand, why not engage the subject?

Lol jk, anyone reading this will know why you can't.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I gave you an infographic with a cute robot, wasn't that enough? I can't dumb it down further.

[–] undergroundoverground 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks but I didn't need it. Maybe try the explanations without pictures next time. Thats probably where you went wrong.

Your problem is that you presumed to be saying that to someone who didn't know anything about fallacies and not someone who knows them better than you. So, now you've gone and made a fool out of yourself. Even funnier that you've doubled down on your fallacy fallacy and had to resort to such pathetic deflections.

Please carry on though, you're hilarious.