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Far-right populists top polls in Germany, France and Britain for the first time (www.nbcnews.com)

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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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[–] tinyhammers@feddit.uk 11 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah. I naively thought that finally there might be some change now the fucking Tories have imploded, but no.

What a monumental turdpile.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Same thing is happening in Australia. It's controlled opposition. The real leftists have been progressively out-capitaled from the center-left parties. Now their majority are corporate whore "centrist" neoliberals that continue to screw the workers, just slower than the center-right party, which is now a borderline fascist party.

I'm still waiting for people to realise that we live in corporate dictatorships with the illusion of democracy; you can vote for whoever you want, but the oligarch-financed candidates are statistically guaranteed to win a majority 90+% of the time, coz capitalism. The major difference is how much lube they apply before they fuck you.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I'm still waiting for people to realise that we live in corporate dictatorships with the illusion of democracy; you can vote for whoever you want, but the oligarch-financed candidates are statistically guaranteed to win a majority 90+% of the time, coz capitalism.

People having this realization and solidarity amongst the common folk are the only way to we have a hope of fighting this pile of shit back.

It's still nowhere near a guarantee of a win, and it's made monumentally more difficult by the oligarchs plotting to divide us up (using the politicians and social media platforms they own) but it's the only chance we have.

[–] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

Spot on

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 0 points 10 hours ago

Labour has been a joke of a party for the past 3 decades. The only reason they are in power right now is that the Tories actually managed to completely destroy the UK. Labour and the Tories are going to go the way of the Whigs the nezt election and will be replaced by Reform UK and Corbyn's new leftist party.