Politics Thread 3.0

[Duuring]

Agreed.

[Dainyel]

It's weird that while people become less and less interested in politics, they start voting for more radical parties. Well, at one point it's understandable that they vote for radical parties because they're fend up with 'the establishments', but at the same time you'd think that only people really involved in politics and the affairds of the world would vote for a radical party. At least, from an ideological point of view.

Here the Socialist Party, which is not really that radical, got a few more seats in the polls but nothing out of the ordinary. The populist party is gaining support though. In all the polls it's big and in some it's even the biggest. Still, with 30 seats at the most they'd still need at least 2 other parties to form a government, so...we'll see how that works out. Of course, the Netherlands has a history of not voting radical.

Populism is disgusting.

It's used to piggy-back votes from the under-informed or the generally ignorant populace. Another reason they might become tired with 'normal' parties is because of a wide gulf of consensus policies that makes the 'normal' parties look similar or the same. If they took 5 minutes to find out the policies of the radical parties I doubt they would remain voters for very long.

It's like cheating votes from otherwise regular voters.

[Colonel Howe]

Here's a new topic: the future of fascism and the far right in world politics.

Greece, the Ukraine, Spain, France and many other nations across Europe are battling between radicalism on both sides. And with the recent issues with Muslim immigration and Putin being portrayed as an international bogey man. Will this xenophobia, fear, and economic difficulties open up opportunities for fascism and far right groups to seize control of European governments?