It is probably the same reason as to why young men in the US and the rest of the West is turning far right
Master_of_Rodentia on
When the old and the middle-aged consistently (and more enthusiastically) vote to screw over the young, it should not be a surprise that the politically-engaged young start to reject democracy.
This pattern would hold in any circumstance where a minority demographic is repeatedly screwed over by the majority. A dictatorship of the majority likely doesn’t feel all that different from how they *expect* a dictatorship would feel. The leopard would never eat *their* face, of course.
boardatwork1111 on
The last generation who remembers first hand what it’s like to get burned by extreme nationalism has died out. Once that living memory is gone, people start to wonder if grandpa was exaggerating just how hot that stove really is.
Imicrowavebananas on
!ping GER
Coneskater on
The saddest thing in the world of the past few years is that it became edgy/ rebellious to support right wing authoritarianism. It used to be punk to be an anarchist but now all the edgelords want to be fascists
WAGRAMWAGRAM on
Maximilian Krah being like : Don’t join the Greens or you’ll have to fuck hippies, join the AfD and you’ll fuck young men. What is your choice young man?”
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It is probably the same reason as to why young men in the US and the rest of the West is turning far right
When the old and the middle-aged consistently (and more enthusiastically) vote to screw over the young, it should not be a surprise that the politically-engaged young start to reject democracy.
This pattern would hold in any circumstance where a minority demographic is repeatedly screwed over by the majority. A dictatorship of the majority likely doesn’t feel all that different from how they *expect* a dictatorship would feel. The leopard would never eat *their* face, of course.
The last generation who remembers first hand what it’s like to get burned by extreme nationalism has died out. Once that living memory is gone, people start to wonder if grandpa was exaggerating just how hot that stove really is.
!ping GER
The saddest thing in the world of the past few years is that it became edgy/ rebellious to support right wing authoritarianism. It used to be punk to be an anarchist but now all the edgelords want to be fascists
Maximilian Krah being like : Don’t join the Greens or you’ll have to fuck hippies, join the AfD and you’ll fuck young men. What is your choice young man?”