In Spanien schien das, was einst unmöglich schien, jetzt weit verbreitet: Die Jungen wenden sich ganz rechts zu
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/07/spain-young-voters-far-right-migration-housing-wages-employment-vox
Von StGuthlac2025
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The times are giving them plenty of reasons.
Let’s call them all racist and ignore the underlying problems causing people to vote far right
With no perspective and seemingly no hope (the internet is full of doom posting) it’s sadly very easy to sell them a fantasy
It’s interesting that as a response to the damage caused by 45 years of practically global right-wing economic policy the youth are turning to …the right-wing …to fix them. Very, very poor analytical skills and frankly shocking level of economic literacy.
italian left found in a ditch after reading this news
Because they know shit about fascism and populism
Its the same here in Sweden. Very worrying when 20% of our voters support a political far right party that for 8 years ago was considered so racist and far right, none of our other parties even considered working with them. Today they have a large influence on our goverment and the future honestly feels very hopeless.
>how do we explain Vox’s growing appeal among a new generation of younger Spanish voters? There are several contributory factors, but two particular crises, badly mishandled by the biggest parties, …: the deadly floods in Valencia last year and this summer’s wildfires
>The last Spanish general election was in 2023 and the biggest concerns identified by Vox voters at the time were migration and “government and political parties”.
>polling shows that housing is the top concern for the population in general and even more so for anyone under 35. Wages, employment and the cost of living are mentioned too. Migration barely registers as an issue for younger voters.
Gosh this article is some AI-slop
The irony of thinking that VOX is going to solve any of your problems.
are there any studies on why (mostly) young males turn to the right so substantially in recent years?
I think there needs to be a distinction between young women and young men when discussing where that age group is leaning politically
I wonder why?
There are many things to blame for this not only in Spain but in the entire western world: Rising income and wealth inequality, skyrocketing housing costs, wage stagnation, ever higher taxes, cost of living crisis/inflation, social media, loneliness, a lack of meaning to life, austerity, immigration and a world that is changing at an exorbitant pace while many feel left behind.
There aren’t many options for us to do anything about it since the people profiting from this system (the wealthy) have done everything to prevent systemic change from ever happening.
How will all of this develop in the future? I don’t know but it looks like the moment we elect right wing extremists to positions of power, things will go south very quickly. We will just see a change like in Orban‘s Hungary: A right wing populist cleptocracy that controls everything while maintaining a thinly veiled charade they call democracy and keep their power by polarizing society and deflecting the blame to irrelevant topics
Consequences of not deplatforming the far-right.
edit: the replies showing ignorance about social contracts and the paradox of intolerance, unsurprisingly.
Creeping Islamism exists.
Media outlets: „A mysterious unexplainable phenomenon! Must be racism!“
Letting millions of people with a literal Stone Age mentality into Europe, and then calling anyone who questions it a racist, really helped the right gain support among reasonable people.
I love everyone here asking “why” when the reason is right in front of your faces. Y’all refused to address the immigration issue. Intentionally made it worse. Now here you are.
So they wanna be like Hungary who is the poorest country in the EU? Lol
Believe it or not, discontent frequently leads to extremism
As much as I’d like to avoid seeing Europe steer that way, I can’t help but blame the current governments for it
Consequence of:
– doing nothing about the illegal immigrations problems;
– weak left parties;
– weak EU;
– economic uncertainty, war, house and job crisis;
– unchecked mainstream far right;
– main western power pressing toward far right;
I mean can you blame them? Have you walk a round the towns and cities? Crime has gone up so much in such a short time is dangerous to go out at night now and Spain socializing it’s such huge part of the identity
I always laugh at myself when I read European eastern countries saying that they don’t have real left parties because “communism”. Ok, I can understand. And then how in Earth spanish young people are willing to vote for this? Do they have parents? Grandparents? Do they know how life was with a fascist regime that didn’t let women get out of the kitchen? Where people couldn’t speak their own mother tongue? Where people were shot until the very last day of the regime in military trials for having different ideas? My father used to tell me that he shared ONE egg between all the siblings some days in the late 40s.
Democracy isn’t perfect, but man, understanding this is beyond my comprehension.
You don’t want to solve the problems caused by mass immigration?
That’s why people are voting for the far right.
It’s only „what once seemed impossible“ if your understanding of age-based political alignment is welded so firmly to the Anglosphere that you struggle seeing outside of the US and UK.
The youth vote for the hard right has been increasing in France, Germany, and Italy among others for quite a long time, why is it such a huge shock that Spain would see the same effect?
….Spain?
The one that had a fascist autocrat who peaceably ceded power to a king in late 70s?
Easier to blame immigrants for no jobs and expensive cost of living (rent especially) than blame the rich for causing it…
I mean we might all be super 1% rich one day so can’t blame them right….
No shit the right are growing, they make it easy to blame those below you than those above you…
Sad times ahead folks.
Yes immigration is a problem and needs dealing with but capitalism on this scale and greed is the real issue
This is a global phenomena, and I don’t believe it’s just natural. I think global authoritarian powers are pushing this. They all see themselves as better off if western democracy, and the regulations that keep corruption and abuse in check, fall.
Young people in two years:
„Face eating leopards that i voted for eat my face…“:
It´s going to be fun seen them crushed by the far right and then turning to communism.
A lot of young are turning to the right because things aren’t good and the right gives you ppl to blame it on. Having a common enemy, especially one that doesn’t look like you, makes ppl come together. It always has
With a housing crisis and low wages turning right is for sure the correct call here I think, I cannot see a single issue
The leopard that’s here with me would say the same thing if it weren’t busy eating my face
These far right people open up shop in neighborhoods where the young people hang about. Sometimes the older parties and the more academic left have a bit of an ivory tower syndrome and entirely forget the grassroots.
I wonder why? I mean after 30 plus years of giving zero hope to young people, with huge unemployment numbers among young people, ridiculous salaries, increasing cost of living and shrinking social safety nets, and nobody with a real plan to do anything.
Add to that a few Billionaires running all the media and you can see exactly why they are looking for something different… not good, but I totally understand why
It’s helped that „far-right“ has been broadened to mean „opposes being colonized via mass migration.“ I’ve see Euro-skeptic & pro-EU parties both labeled „far-right“ by various corporate media outlets; same with parties who are very pro-welfare (for the indigenous) & parties who are almost libertarian leaning in their desire to slash budgets; same with parties who are socially-conservative & those who openly embrace all forms of socially-libertine lifestyles.
The youth are, quite simply, less isolated from the deleterious effects of migrant violence, disunity, & wage deflation than the aging Boomers or Gen X. Just look at the demographics of the youth population, specifically, & how many kids are born to foreign parents rather compared to native European stock. Add in a few manufactured economic crises & nationalist populism makes all the sense in the world.
Yesterday I saw a fuckwit with a hitler t shirt proudly wearing it, history repeats itself slowly but surely, I hate everything
So instead of holding politicians accountable or electing ones that will do a better job they want to elect even worse ones that will absolutely not ever give them what they are wanting? This makes zero sense to me. Electing far right politicians doesn’t lead to a better quality of life, it leads to fascism and further erosion of *everything*. But of course, I forget, critical thinking and an understanding of history is a rare quality to have nowadays.
Thank fuck I don’t share the same stupidity that other young people my age do.
Radicalized by their own vanity.
Right wing knew exactly where all the pressure points were.
I dont know why the fuck the guardian has been giving so much light to right wing sympathizers all across the world. They were trying to ratchet up similar situation happening in japan.m w/ Sanseito. The thing about these right wing idiots is that they starve for attention and runs on bating rage. And still, they’re still a small portion of the population, and we dont know a major news outlet to try to provide them with more headlines. Do better, “The Guardian”
Like many countries in the EU. Propaganda working hard and the media platforms are just allowing all kinds of propaganda to be spread
Among other things mentioned in other comments, that’s what happens when you let fascism get old and die instead of squashing it directly.
As someone who is fleeing the US for Spain, I humbly suggest you all take what is happening in America very seriously, and do whatever you can to stop it happening in Spain.
The far right gives easy answers for questions that more responsible politicians know there are no easy answers for.
If we can create a compelling message for ensuring things like housing and a living wage, we can yet turn the tide back.
The middle class in Europe is strong and hasn’t allowed for much new thinking when it comes to taxation.
Who would’ve known
Spain is also the only country who has not reported any funding to NATOs cyber security budget. The people are financially exploited with a history of corruption and a terrible housing market. It’s a great place to geopolitical drama as they share a boarder with africa.
Whole world seems to leaning towards right
These nerds need to get off the internet
Say thanks to Tik Tok and its army of bots.
I was under the impression it was relatively easy to build new housing in Spain? I know from speaking with friends in business that they thought it was incredibly difficult to open businesses in Spain due to bureaucracy so maybe some deregulation in that area could be helpful but don’t know enough.
Can someone ELI5 what actual policies need to be implemented?
Sadly even i was during years defending the far right, all i consumed as a teen was lauren southern, sargon of akkas and local right wing influencers, nowadays the algorithm promotes them and opinions like „if your woman doesnt want to cooke you should teach her to respect youby force“ , „women are bitches nowadays and they were better during the dictatorship“
Add to that the onslaught of fake news from news like OkDiario about migrants, aconomy and gender.
And add the normal frustration of younger generations seeing they have no future, no housing no motivation wich as a milenial feels weird as we had waaay more unemployment, but its a valid feeling.
Social media has destroyed normal relationships
Then it comes the far right woth all their propaganda and easy solutions that does not include having to deal with a dificult situation but blaming other (not the rich of course) but women and blacks.
We are the safer now than even 20 years ago, with migration being high, but if anyone of you watched our newr or read our newspapers you would never know.
A third of the voters of the far eight are young people that do kot care about facts or the dangers of the far eight, and actually glorify the fascist dictatorship, while only a tenth of their voters are old generations who have a more recent memory of it.
It sares me is how kormal it has become to say things pro fascism, and extremely hatefull of women while claiming they are defending them from islam
Vox candidate beat a periodist, another candidate is a wife abuser and they didnt fire him, the party is corrupt AF acording even to far right media, they side with trump against spain, actively try to rewrite history, spread fascist propaganda (like actual fascist one from decades ago) they are against working rights, but ey blaming , the wokes, migrants and women is how we are going to fix the problems it seems.
Oh and by the way VOX IS THE ONLY PARTY AGAINST INVESTIGATING PEDOS IN THE CHURCH