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Alternative for Germany has joined France's National Rally and Reform U.K. in becoming the most popular party in its country, according to polls.

A poll Tuesday showed Alternative for Germany — which is under surveillance by the country’s intelligence services over suspected extremism — is now the most favored by voters. The survey by broadcaster RTL put the AfD at 26%, ahead of the ruling Christian Democrats at 24%.

This is a high watermark for the European far right, a once fringe movement whose virulently anti-immigration, anti-Islam and culture-war politics were shunned by the mainstream just a decade ago.

Today, these parties have developed deep ties with President Donald Trump and his Republican allies, who openly cite nationalists such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as inspirations on policy and tactics.

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[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 73 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Are people not paying attention to how destructive these parties are to democracy?

[–] Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 72 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Nope and by design from the media to keep them distracted from it. Get people riled up about trans people in toilets and asylum seekers in small boats rather than the rich destroying the planet and causing horrendous inequality in basic living.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Tyrants are also usually to blame for the asylum seekers in small boats. The irony knifes me. They're often seeking asylum because they're fleeing a tyrant, and the response of the countries they try to find safe harbor in is to turn themselves into the very type of tyranny they were fleeing.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 31 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

People want change, they promise change, no matter how bad of a change. That, coupled with a massive propaganda network made up of a few billionaires, and there you have it.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 23 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

No, they promise the world and then shit in your mouth. These people are being duped.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 8 points 10 hours ago

People are getting shit on ny the current parties as well. Prisoners don't riot because they think they will get out of jail, they riot to get even with their keeps that have been fucking them over. All the status quo parties in Europe/the West are responsible for the current mess we are in and people know it.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 15 points 14 hours ago

They definitely are, "strangely enough", it follows trends of cost cutting measures on education that have been happening in the last few decades.

[–] finix_the_psyker@sopuli.xyz 6 points 14 hours ago

That's the whole point. Look to the now infamous Jubilee video of the man proudly claiming that he is indeed a fascist and he wants an authoritarian ethnostate.