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Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Can confirm.
By the way my country has an actual Communist Party with some representatives in government (not enough for anything really).
And FYI EU politicians are learning from the US: the EU, either at top level or at countries' governments, is veering right as of late, towards the same fascism we now see in the US.
So perhaps we shouldn't be so smug, not right now at least.
Fascism is extremely well-funded and these assholes band together just look at the bailout of Argentina.
Your countries (I mean France at least) will burn themselves to the ground before they let that happen. Something I wish the Americans would do. I don’t want to be caught in a house fire, but if Temu Hitler is at my door setting it and my options are limited I’d drag him into the flames with me without a second thought.
Are EU politicians really learning from the US? Or are they just paid off pawns? Probably a mix of both, but I think it's safe to assume that the majority is caused by American meddling, until confirmed to be otherwise.
Oligarch meddling, they don't see flags (and neither should we).
They're all puppets and traitors.
They are veering right because of the blatant Russian propaganda that is trying to break up NATO and the EU by trying to make everyone more xenophobic.
Too bad for them EU countries have a much more robust political system that cuts out extremist views most of the time. We don't have a "winner takes all" system. And plenty of political parties, even right-wing ones, want nothing to do with the fascists.
I'm hopeful, but I wouldn't let my guard down.
Far-right parties are winning in Europe because the European Central Bank forces countries to adopt 'austerity' policies. These policies destroy jobs and reduce people's quality of life. So people vote for whoever promises to fix this - either the left or the far-right. But the ECB can't permit an anti-austerity government, so they crack down on the left. The far-right is tolerated as long as it only targets random Syrian refugees.
Russia is bad but blaming everything on russia is ridiculous. Xenophobia is growing everywhere with or without russian influence
It's the other way around. It's NATO propaganda that led us to the war with Russia.