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This from the country that was the first to legalise weed and prostitution, with strong socialist healthcare and which has been traditionally liberal on immigration etc.

https://time.com/6339173/dutch-election-results-geert-wilders-far-right-netherlands-europe/

Wilders wants zero asylum and wants Islam banned (though he has now softened that position). Even the centre-right came second, so if you add the far-right and centre-right votes it's huge. You also have Trump forecast to defeat Biden according to the latest polls. So why this backlash against left/liberal parties, to the extent that even the far-right is preferable to the centre-right? What's going on? Anger at unemployment and inflation? An ideological rejection of socialism in favour of capitalism? Or a culture war backlash against left/liberal parties because they have been co-opted by woke factions?
BJP is doing freebie and rewrie politics too in full force before the election. Does that make Modi a freeloader?
Guessing people are tired of migrants from radically different and regressive cultures flooding their countries. Atleast that's what the narrative is.
Except of course Palestinians who get to cry about colonisation from Jews ?

The woke left is so inconsistent! Pull yourself together.
Colonisation is about trying to force your will over others as if you own the place. The bhakt right is so uneducated! Pull your knowledge together!
Did you just use a racist term on a fellow Indian? Lol you aunties are such sad cases, would go to the PS for a report on "N" word but come to LI and spew this.
for the last time

JAVIER MILEI IS NOT FAR RIGHT

HE'S A LIBERTARIAN, read up on what libertarianism actually is
Well, most Europeans are pissed with the migrant crisis that was sparked due to Arab spring, it has brought millions of migrants all throughout Europe, a large number of whom are radical Islamists which has led to an increase in crime and made ethnic Europeans feel unsafe within their own homes. The radical nature of a large number of these migrants is clearly visible in massive pro Hamas protests happening across Europe, several terrorist attacks which have happened in Europe in last decade and riots in several European nations France being an example. Check the massive increase in rapes across Europe particularly in scandinavia which was most welcoming to migrants.

It is understandable why European citizens are standing for hardcore right wing nationalists since they are afraid of radical Islam invading their society. I know this is politically incorrect for most folks, but it is the truth.
On the contrary, The Netherlands is not France or Italy. Most of their recent migrants are white Christian Ukrainians.
I think the right have finally found some moral courage and harped on wedge issues that will make them seem reasonable in comparison to woke leftists. Trangenderism, tolerating intolerant faith systems, radical policy changes to drugs and prostitution,open borders and unfettered immigration - these are all policy problems on which the woke left is unreasonable and has no cogent argument to make except to shout down the other side as bigoted ( a childish act which only convinces everyone involved that they are right!)

What’s more - feminists and women have traditionally been a voting block for the left. Once you tell women that they don’t exist as a sex class - that womanhood is an idea in a man’s head, that they should be good little girls and share their restrooms and changing rooms and political struggles with males because of one pseudo philosophers garbage theory - those women will stay at home and not vote - or they will vote the other way. When you tell them sex work is just work and they should consider it when they don’t get employed - you will lose their vote.Jews traditionally vote on the left by and large - but when you start telling them that they are colonialists in the only

Homeland Jewish people have ever known- when you tell them the rape and murder of women and children is acceptable resistance - they will not vote for you anymore.

The working class is traditionally left wing - but when you condescend to them and shame them because they won’t play pronoun games or because they object to their daughters being pushed into prostitution, and tell them they should be happy their jobs are now going to an immigrant - you’re gonna lose that vote. When you support boycotts and strikes over the issues of the petty bourgeoisie instead of recognising that the guy who drives cars and does deliveries needs the job to feed himself- you’re gonna lose that vote. The unions are going to turn slowly but surely. The left use to be the home of the working class - but no more.

By getting drawn into woke cultural politics because they are terrified of being cancelled on twitter by gen z woke idiots- the left has abandoned its traditional supporters and has gone from being a party that supported womens rights , supported secularism, supported workers - to a party of college educated elite young people. It’s a bad trade.
Excellent comment and spot on. Unless leftists abandon their alliance with woke-ists and Islamists they will lose legitimacy.
Of course you had to drag in bigotry against trans people in your "analysis"
its not bigotry for people to disagree with you about whether trans rights should eclipse womens rights.
It is when you are creating strawman arguments about how according trans rights takes away women rights.
At a time when Islamic Terrorists are wrecking havoc across the globe, you will see a lot more Right Wing folks winning elections across the globe.
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