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Extremely high budget for ads and posters, social media campaigns, etc., all paid from foreign countries under dubious circumstances by straw men. It's all copy
by 13415 11d ago
Extremely high budget for ads and posters, social media campaigns, etc., all paid from foreign countries under dubious circumstances by straw men. It's all copy & paste across EU countries, far-right parties even copy the slogans they put on their posters, they just exchange the country name.
- fatcatsbestcats 11d agoYep. Like they say, follow the (foreign) money.
- ballon_monkey 11d agoIs this what you truly believe?
- 13415 11d agoI know it. "Salvar Portugal" "Deutschland retten" ROTFL
- pas 11d agoyes, but also there's a real obvious unserved/underserved voting bloc https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-boring-theory-of-the-populist-right https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-boring-theory-of-the-populist... without convincing the people (winning their hearts and minds, and so on) it'll continue to be a profitable political strategy, unfortunately
- dewey 11d agoThat's kinda implying that they only got elected because they had money and a good campaign instead of addressing issues that are not addresses in an effective way by the other parties. This is probably the case of both things being true at the same time.
- cyanydeez 11d agoI mean, they also get elected because hate motivates.
- XorNot 11d agoThey lie loudly and often and face no punishment for it because a lie is halfway round the world before the truth gets its pants on. "They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats."
- vkou 11d agoDid the Brexit campaign address the issues of the people who voted for it? Are all those people now better off because of it? Did Trump and his 'no new wars' and '$1.99 gas' and 'Drain the swamp' and 'Balance the budget' address the issues of the people who voted for him? Or did they just lie out of their ass and leave everyone worse off?
- dewey 11d ago> Or did they just lie out of their ass and leave everyone worse off? This, but I guess I should've been more clear in my parent comment in saying that by "addressing" should come in heavy quotation marks.
- gopher_space 11d agoThis says more about the electorate than the candidates. You can’t have a segment of your population that refuses to connect ideas and expect a working society to come out the other end.
- pas 11d agothey connect ideas all day. xenophobia is that, making fast and loose connections. unfortunately we are deep into the TikTok times, and simple, but catchy ideas dominate. it's flat Earth, QAnon, anti-vax, anti-economics but now in 4K.
- nicce 11d agoIt is not just the money but social media is controlled by right wing ideologist. Musk has openly supported right wing parties in Europe.
- 13415 11d agoI don't disagree but I see this more psychologically by now. Certain mechanisms are just tried and tested, what worked for Mussolini works just as well today, and it's always the same kind of people who are attracted to it. Of course, it's not just the support by various enemies of Europe and Germany, there are many factors like always. In this particular case there are also historical reasons for the rise of Neonazism in parts of the former GDR and many other former East Bloc countries. I don't want to go into the details, everybody knows that story, but it's worth noting the Skinnheads Sächsische Schweiz of the 90s are now the fathers of young voters and particularly few things had been done against this trend in Saxony. When you allow Neonazi movements to become a major youth culture, you're bound to get serious problems. Since the AfD has absorbed the NPD, it's just the political arm of a vast movement there.