• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    Most popular in most western nations even. I don’t understand why.

    All I know is that the more educated people tend to vote either liberal or left. Also many countries have a voting system that tend to disadvantage urban citizens over rural ones.

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      Have you not noticed that mainstream social media is full of fake accounts pushing thos narrative? There has to be a billion dollars or more poured into paid trolling on social media. Even small town facebook groups are full of fake right wing accounts. They even pretend to be leftwing and attack people for being “nazi appologists” or “tankies” there’s even some accounts on here that do it. Those people are getting paid to do it.

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      Populism.

      They managed to make low income people across the continent west vote directly against their own interests.

      Because “immigrants”. With such incredible promises as “banning illegal immigration”.

      Its a shitshow and I’m losing hope that we an recover in the next decade

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      It’s also the internet fully emerging as a propaganda medium, with the biggest sites controlled by rightwing billionaires.

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      the more educated people tend to vote either liberal or left

      And this might be the reason. More educated, middle-class, from large cities are ‘the elites’, but not a significant majority. Poor, less educated people, from rural areas feel excluded in the world made by and for ‘the elites’. So they are going to vote against what the elites want. And, on top of that, the opportunistic rich ‘1%’, with means to influence politics, abuse those feelings for their own gain.