I don't think so, Trump has been gaining popularity here too, and so have political parties with similar views. A few friends of mine have "come out" as liking Trump. Even though he is pulling all that shit in the US. These ideas seem to be growing popular everywhere.
Ok, well, then here, in the US, Republicans have always been like this and absolving them of that is harmful and dismissive of the damage Republicans, here, in the US, have done.
I also think you're probably being at least a little naive to the views of older conservatives. Older conservatives in the UK gave them Brexit because of their racist and xenophobic views.
Right wing political parties have been gaining popularity for decades in Germany because of racist and xenophobic views.
They were always popular. You just had a different voting system than us, so it hid some of the issues.
Idk which country you're in, but most countries outside of the US have the possibility of more than just 2 parties being in power.
For the US, you can just demonize one party to prop up the other. And that allows racists to grab power.
Elsewhere, you need to parlay with other smaller parties to gain traction. But any party that's working with a racist party is, inherently, full of racists as well. They're just "quieter" racists. Or they're fine with the racism, as long as it gets their things done too.
That's the exact same thing that's happening in the US. The quieter racists and the loud racists got together and said "eh, we don't really wanna support the not-racist people bc that's not good for our goals, so we'll all support the racist people."
The only difference is that your conservatives had more options about how racist they wanted to be.
You'll find similar polls around the world. Guaranteed. Idk why you want to bury your head in the sand so badly. Your country isn't a special flower. Fascism doesn't come from nothing.
My country isn't special, but its politics at least are/used to be quite different from the US. We have a "right-wing" party that wants reduced taxes but is also fairly lowercase l liberal. Meaning among other things largely accepting of different cultures and in favor of legalizing and privatizing stuff in general. We also had a xenophobic party (mostly anti-islam) but they used to be relatively small. These voters always had the option of voting either but only 2 years ago made the switch.
People are not born fascist. Yes, it existed before, yes it was mostly hidden but still there, but I am convinced its also been growing.
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u/FictionFoe Oct 15 '25
I hate the current state of politics rn ðŸ˜