In Spain, what once seemed impossible is now widespread: the young are turning to the far right

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1. This has to be a joke, right?

   >Migration is barely mentioned – instead, failed policies on housing, wages and employment

   What possible force could drive the cost of housing up, drive the wages down and make employment harder?

   Supposing if a lot of people were to suddenly appear by magic, and they all needed housing and job, and were willing to work for less, could that in theory do it? Hmm, probably totally unrelated to migration.

2. >It seems that the younger you are in Spain at the moment, the more likely you are to vote for a party that advocates, among other things, the mass expulsion of immigrants in order to preserve “Spanish identity”, the restriction of abortion, end-of-life and trans rights, the dismantling of the European Union’s institutions and the rejection of policies to tackle the climate crisis. Older generations continue to back the two largest parties, the centre-left Socialist party (PSOE) and the centre-right Popular party (PP). Women aged 60 and over make up the largest group rejecting the far right. Catalonia is the exception: support for the nationalist far right is spread across older generations, too.

   They will vote for and do anything except for actually put in the work to have and raise kids to preserve that “Spanish” identity.

   I used to think women aren’t stupid enough to vote for such strict abortion measures. Back when I was in America I’d heard of a particularly harrowing case but found sympathy difficult once I realized the woman’s views. I believe she’s changed now but what was so surprising when professionals wasted their time warning these people again and again?

3. Imagine living in a dictatorship until *1975* and living to see your grandkids cheer on the next one.

4. Why did it seem impossible? The country spent far longer under fascist control than Nazi Germany and had no real national reckoning with that afterwards, so plenty of families still revere Franco. 

5. >Data on the new young voters is limited, but 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. But the perception of politicians themselves as a problem, which was the other big issue for Vox voters in 2023, is widespread across generations. 

   This is the key part of the article. They’re done with the ruling duopoly and don’t think reform is possible.

6. I don’t understand why Europeans leftists keep refusing on implanting strict immigration system like Denmark.

7. these billionaires really are just going all in on brainwashing the younger generations into far right ideology huh, anything to not pay a living wage

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