It's getting uglier by the day

[abaris]

I guess I'm speaking from the American perspective. The refusal of the two wings to work together usually results in the bird falling to earth.

The European problem is, there are no longer two wings. Conservatives and Social Democrats are pretty much the same. The extreme right plays in it's own ugly league. Since they are the ones promising the easy solutions, they are also attracting the one being disenfranchised by the global economy. I mean the ones buying their narrative, which usually takes some serious lack of education. Which, sadly, isn't hard to come by in this day and age.

In our last elections, you got a pretty good picture. The larger hubs voted moderate, the rural areas voted extremist. And within the hubs, the known problem zones also voted extremist. What really gives me reason for concern is the fact that there are housing complexes for cops. These districts have voted rightwing populist in their vast majority.