The most likely government to emerge - most analysts predict - will be a coalition including a hard-right nationalist party for the first time in Spain since the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.

More left-leaning Spaniards are frantically texting contacts, urging them to make sure to vote - despite the heat and it being holiday time for many - to “stop the fascists” in their tracks.The rhetoric this election season has been toxic, with voters becoming increasingly polarised.

It’s a fight over values, traditions and about what being Spanish should mean in 2023.

This kind of heated identity debate isn’t peculiar to Spain. Think of Italy, France, Brazil or the post-Trumpian debate in the US.

At EU HQ in Brussels, there are huge concerns about a resurgence of hard-right nationalist parties across Europe.

  • DieguiTux8623@feddit.it
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    It doesn’t take to be a political sociologist to understand that left wing parties failed to manage the situation in the latest years (inflation, pandemics, etc.) and that people are now looking for alternatives. Had they managed to really defend the interests and welfare of the working class, they would have won hands down. The future won’t be hard for most of the people in the beginning, except if you happen to be in one of the minorities they are targeting. That stinks, I know, but there are no alternatives…

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      That stinks, I know, but there are no alternatives…

      There’s always an alternative to fascism, and it’s always better.

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        When society takes collectively a direction, it’s like trying to swim upstream. You can only if you are strong enough.

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        If you means liberalism that is becoming fascism too, I don’t think it’s a alternative…

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      Except if you happen to be in one of the minorities they are targeting.

      Here is a quote that will probably go over your head, but I’ll post it regardless in the hopes that you’re better than the rest of the far-right voters:

      First they came for the Communists
      And I did not speak out
      Because I was not a Communist
      
      Then they came for the Socialists
      And I did not speak out
      Because I was not a Socialist
      
      Then they came for the trade unionists
      And I did not speak out
      Because I was not a trade unionist
      
      Then they came for the Jews
      And I did not speak out
      Because I was not a Jew
      
      Then they came for me
      And there was no one left
      To speak out for me
      
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        Where did I say that I agree with this kind of policies? I think this is leveraging people discontent to gain power (and giving them fake enemies like minorities won’t solve the real problems). But I’m getting downvoted anyway, God knows why.

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      I don’t know the specifics of Spain politics much, just that there are specifics like Catalonia and Gibraltar on top of the rest.

      Meanwhile everywhere in the world the left parties are failling at the same time media are taken by hard right activist. Propaganda works at full force, and liberals (in south Europe that’s center right) are siding hard with the fascists to decrease the influence of the left.

      Left is not without its own failings. Ironically the fights for societal freedom and ecology are quite liberal in their execution and not very inclusive. Many people are left behind with climate change and the fight for women and sexual rights is frontal and basically tell people to agree or gtfo. Well, they do gtfo then to the other side that talk to poor people: fascists.

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      that left wing parties failed to manage the situation in the latest years (inflation, pandemics, etc.)

      I can’t say much about Spanish politics. But tbh, I’m not sure how to compare. But the pandemic and the inflation are world phenomena. Not saying they couldn’t have been better managed in Spain ( or elsewhere), but here they say the same about our Gvement and they were right- centre.

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        The measures the government took during COVID were just inefficient, delayed and too strict at the same time, he formed a coalition government with separatists and former terrorists after explicitly stating he wouldn’t and he has tried to increase control over the judicial power, weakening even more the separation of powers (which is very weak in my country).

        It’s expectable to think a sizeable amount of people would vote the opposition