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.

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.

For the first time in modern history, far-right and populist parties are simultaneously topping the polls in Europe’s three main economies of Germany, France and Britain.

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.

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Here’s the problem with your conclusion, who then decides who gets to vote? By what criteria? Say 100 percent of people outside of some some group X or above some minimum attribute Y believe that those in X or those who are lesser than Y should not get to vote and thus they should hold dominion over them… what stops them from doing the same to an arbitrary group that you belong to? What if they say that only land owners should vote? Only those who trace their ancestry back to original colonizers? Only those who meet a certain level of capitalistic investment in the economy? Only those who wish to preserve the existing way of life? Only those who believe in defending that way of life through force? Only those who hold a certain viewpoint about a specific religion and belive it has a role in the governance of the nation? Only those that support their one party leader? Only those who literally worship this leaders dynasty as divine? Each step can be fully justified and will have the precedent set that all they need is the consensus of those who would usurp power from those who would be excluded by the new rules in order to strip them of their vote and any other rights they see fit.

    You see how your position is pretty problematic and opens a giant can of worms of abuse and autocracy?