Exit polls for ARD and ZDF public television showed support for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats at 14%, below the 15.8% they managed in 2019 and far below their showing in Germany’s last national election in 2021.
  • CompostMaterial@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 months ago

    It would seem the entire world is in a fascist death spiral. I’m not going to to be so grandiose as to say we are all completely fucked, but I will say this wave of fascism is going to likely stunt human progress for the next one-hundred years.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Since it always seems to go along with corporatism and a refusal to admit climate change is a problem, it will set us back much more than that. It’s shocking how easily people are turned to fascism.

    • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      Old people become more conservative, the largest generation is now old…

      Yup we’re fucked.

      • ahornsirup@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        10·
        5 months ago

        The 70+ age group was the one the AfD performed worst in. It’s young people voting fascist here in Germany, the old folks vote CDU because that’s what they’ve always done.

        • muppeth@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
          6·
          5 months ago

          And this is the most scary part of it. Specially that it isn’t just France or Germany but pretty much across the board young people voted for biggest populists out there.

        • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          5 months ago

          I just want to quickly add it isn’t just “young people”, it’s young men. Women are still heavily left but 20-something men want to give the 1930s a try again.

      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        They actually don’t, on average they actually become slightly more progressive. However, rich people are conservative and rich people live longer.