Far-Right WINS BIG In EU Elections
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An important thing, Vaush doesn't cover in regard to the rise of the AfD among young people, is that they are heavily invested on TikTok, up to 75% of all political content on TikTok in Germany is made by the AfD or their lickspittles. The tremendous influence they have on younger people due to TikTok should not be swept under the rug.
I think that they realized that the youth vote is critical to winning.
The other thing is that our established parties almost exclusively care for pensioners and unemployed.
There was no ernest effort made for young working people in a long time.
Younger people is easily influenced if one manage entertaining them.
@@jshwck4210 I agree completely. I'm not a youngster but it's clear to me that the powers that be in Germany do not take young people seriously and barely hide their disdain for them. At best, they do not understand young people at all.
He did cover that in this. They don't have influence due to TikTok, they have influence through TikTok. There's are underlying issues that are leading young people towards the right, not the ability to access a social media platform.
Some Europeans: "There are nazis in Ukraine"
The same Europeans: voting for far-right parties
Define “far right”
@@jimbob498shut up
@@jimbob498 Nazi
@@Dos_CaffeineDefine it if you can 😏
@@ShadowBlitz776 National Conservative political movements/manifestations rooted in claims of the specific identitary superiority of a group over others, often promoting values of authoritarianism, strength through unity, limitations of democracy and rights in favor of security and an idea of nationalism and determinism based around conquest/”protection” of the nation.
The only thing thats making me feel better about this is that in my country Finland the left alliance party did extremely well, getting over twice as many votes than last time and getting the second most votes in our elections.
Kiitos MestaLi ❤
How homogenous is it in Finland ?
@@darkbags39 I'd say it's about deez
@@darkbags39 ...homogenous in what manner?
Finland being constantly rated as the happiest country in the world makes a lot of sense now.....we need to protect finland at all costs
Can the Left please stop being terrible on current geopolitical issues?
It's not funny anymore
There is some good news. Second msot left wing party in Denmark became the biggest party, treating the social Democrats (who aren't social Democrats ideology anymore), in Sweden the far right lost a lot of votes, and in Finland the far left socialist Party gained 17% of the votes (and no they aren't cringe communists, they support the EU and Ukraine)
sd in sweden lost voters cuz of their troll factories
Right wing parties underperforms in EU elections.
@@user-lrg3glm6rhdyv which up to this point had been their strongest recruitment so SD loosing due to them is very, very good.
The Nordic nations in general bucked the trend and upped the left and greens and moved away from the nazis and neo-cons (I'm a Swede and contributed to the aforementioned) but unfortunately we Scandinavians are a minority and cannot cancel out the likes of France and Germany and although I am happy that my country and Nordic region did the right thing I am disappointed by the wider trend in the total EU.
As a cringe communist who supports the EU and Ukraine, I take offense to this.
An actually interesting thing, in Finland, the far-right party lost >10% of the votes while the LEFT-party gained +10%!
3/4 of Europe is not France & Germany. This is a European-wide election.
Centre-Left, Centre & Centre-Right MEPs have a super majority (3/5) in the EU Parliament.
If the Left votes against the Far-Right, that super majority turns into an absolute (4/5) majority.
propably because the right wing party was in power in finland and people saw, that they dont get shit done either. Funny thing is that if the afd would ever take power in germany, people would quickly realize how everything would turn from bad to absolutely f*cking shit. But of course you we can never allow that to happen, because they are actual f*cking nazis and if they ever came to power they could exploit a loophole in the german judicial system to establish a dictatorship. And this is not a joke or some conspiracy theory, one of germanys biggest leftleaning political shows ("die Anstalt") made a video about how the afd could achieve this trough legal means, they only need 50% of all votes.
why did my comment get deleted? :(
@@AB-zl4nh
Yeah exactly. What they call "far right" are just slightly to the left or to the right of center. Extremely far from the bat-shit, all-out, full-on craziness that goes on in the US.
Even the most far right parties over in Europe still gives people 100% healthcare, free education, workers rights, job security, childcare, abortion rights, all the things American right-wingers would destroy. There are no political parties in the world even CLOSE to as far right as even the best Democrats in the US.
@@FinianFhomhair
UA-cam now delets like 2/3 of any comment that their bots thinks are even remotely political. Its almost impossible to have meanings anymore. True story.
You just have to assume you get deleted these days.
Fun fact: even the far right in Europe isn't talking about privatizing healthcare.
I get that, but in some countries they just quietly gut it (like the UK) which is just as bad if not worse.
@@Khalkara they are losing pretty bad right now tho.
yeah, here in Italy with public healthcare you have to wait up to 2 YEARS for a visit. If you dont want (or cant) to wait you have to give a tangent to the doctor lmao.
…sorry to be a bearer of bad news, but the Finnish party NCP (Kokoomus in Finnish) is definitely pushing for that. they just don’t say it out loud.
edit: they’re hardly far right, though tbf, more like braindead liberals
@@Khalkarathat's precisely what Macron is doing in France.
They gained a handful of seats, it's irritating but hardly the end of the world. The 2 main far right groups gained 11 seats between them and among the independents there were a few more. But to put it in perspective there are *720* seats in the EU parliament.
Edit: I think people are misunderstanding the headlines because there was a massive loss for Macron's party specifically. But that does not mean there was a massive change in vote share between the far right seats and all the other seats.
Americans need to pretend that this shift of 1.5% of seats (lol) is the end of the world so they feel better about the state of their own country.
I feel Americans have a hard time keeping in mind we have more than, lets estimate, 10 parties of different shades per individual country that all can, and do, win seat in the governments.
Not too strange since they are used to just 2 parties.
I do think it would be better for the US if they had a few more parties to distribute power better, but I couldn't guess how that could be accomplished.
Yeah, in France, the medias played this european parlementary election as a conflict between the Government and the Far Right, in hope of getting more votes for the neo-liberals of the government, that are disliked by more and more people. This resulted mainly in (right wing and/or dumb) people opposed to the government voting far right...
true
sure, but doom and gloom sells new papers.
Actually there were minimal changes in the composition of the European Parliament, the most concerning outcome is the fall of moderate centrist/center left parties in France and Germany but it's hard to say what the consequences will be on a European level. Probably the same EPP+S&D+Renew EU, majority will form, maybe without the Greens
Shame that Die Linke is filled with morons.
Seems to be a trend of more extremism on both sides.
And a decrease of any center.
More division of opinion.
In the European Commission on the other hand a far right axis with Le Pen, Meloni etc. could be really bad
Yeah I see very scary headlines but then I look at the results and it's gonna be the same coalition. Like the german nazis are gaining power which scares me as a dutch person, but on an eu level its not much
It will be the same old stuff with the EPP in charge
Italian here. The majority of the votes for the right came from the South, in the North the leftwing coalition did pretty well. In fact, one of the parties in the coalition grew by 40% compared with the last elections. It is very disheartening, especially considering that the right has pushed a rhetoric that is extremely discriminatory towards the South for decades.
Not Meloni specifically, to be clear, but some of her buddies have said stuff like Sicilian farmers being dumb and ignorant, as well as a deadweight to the Italian economy.
The cultural divide between North and South is kinda difficult to explain, it's like mini-racism except not based on the colour of one's skin, but on their native region. There are even slurs that have been used to discriminate against people from the South, one of which has pretty much been reclaimed and nowadays is rarely used in a derogatory way.
But the main thing is that the South is poorer and has worse education across the board. It's also a lot more Catholic, which explains the abundant supply of conservative voters down there despite the fact that conservative politicians despise them and will do absolutely nothing to fix the economic and educational divide between North and South.
And yes, a big part of the blame is to be given to liberals, who were nothing if not weak and inadequate at facing a great deal of internal and external problems, as well as extremely rhetorically inept and ineffective.
The only regions in which PD won are: Campania, Tuscany, Liguria, Emilia Romagna, Puglia. Meloni got 11. You are making up your own fan fic and rolling with it.
PD is not the entire left AND it lost a lot of votes. BTW, fuck the PD
The italian left has an habit of alienating its audience and be terrible at communicating.
Meloni tends to go viral with her meme worthy outings.
This is verbatim the United States.
Very, very, very bold to say PD is left wing. In almost all issues, PD voted exactly as Meloni.
I have no idea why Vaush thinks that Poland turned slightly to the left because of the war in Ukraine. It came down to abortion and the church mingling with the state. PiS has always been known to be more opposed to cooperation with Russia and has frequently criticised NS2
Also it’s understandable why the left (as in the party in the European Parliament) is unpopular - ideas like demilitarisation and dissolving NATO when we have an ongoing war on the continent are not popular. Also Mick Wallace and Clare Daly
PiS, similarly to AfD has a history of russian meddling and spreads rhetoric that pops champaigns in Kremlin. Whether they like Russia is of 2nd relevance, they are the kind of party Kremlin wants to see in power in Europe.
Because he doesn't know anything about European politics to an almost comical level and he doesn't bother to ever do research. He had 3arrows on before to correct all the nonsense he said about a past German election.
No idea? Really? Like there was a time he didn't look at other regions through the US political lenses
My understanding is that Poland has one national opinion of Russia that is basically apolitical or nonpartisan
@@justinokraski3796 That's the theory. In practice, before the Ukraine war, quite a few far right politicians were admiring Russia for its' conservative stance and resistance to the "corruption" coming from the West. That's also not including highly suspicious actions concerning our military and military intelligence, which directly benefited Russia.
So yeah, officialy, everyone hates Putin. Unofficially... well, seems like there's good money to be had in saying one thing, while doing the other.
It’s getting really exhausting sitting through Vaush videos where all he does is yell at his own audience. It’s at least 5-10 minutes of every UA-cam video.
Vaush needs to understand his chat is a reflection of him, if he wants them to not be ignorant, rude and sexually weird he needs to change himself to not be those things, instead of getting mad at chat reflecting his own personality back at him with less confidence.
@@thijmstickman8349 what examples do you mean by sexually weird?
@@freniisammiihorse
@@thijmstickman8349 You articulated what I couldn't, thank you. Vaush doesn't want to do d*bates which is fine, but he clearly still craves confrontation because he's always fighting with his chat/subreddit
@@thijmstickman8349 this is facts
Here in Finland the far right (Perus Suomalaiset) lost all but one EU parliament seat while the left and green party gained seats. Their government broke all their promises, so people punished them.
The current coalition still has a majority
3/4 of Europe is not France & Germany. This is a European-wide election.
Centre-Left, Centre & Centre-Right MEPs have a super majority (3/5) in the EU Parliament.
If the Left votes against the Far-Right, that super majority turns into an absolute (4/5) majority.
In Sweden the left won! Our far- right parti went back for the first time since they came into our rule. Despite rest of Europe I feel sooo good😊
Do you also feel good living near the blacks and Arabs?
Yes :)
Sooo you want dead economy, rising crome rate, mosks on the streets and total state degradation))) ahhh leftist
@@hyperquantum3020 Yes, dark skinned people aren't scary. Hope you get the help you need to be less terrified of slightly different looking people.
@@davidballantyne4492 The Blonde Blue eyed Swedish girls that got gangraped by them disagree with you
God, someone please take away Vaush's internet access. I want him to stop talking about European politics. He understands zero about it!
Yes if he knew the policies of the danisch social democrats....--> The n word...
This is kinda true. EU parliament vote is not as important as it might seem. All the member countries are still like their own countries… 🤷♂️ it’s not like the US
he understands zero about and is very arrogant with the american shauvinism, very off-putting
Honestly the problem is most Europeans (me neither to a full extent) probably don't understand it either. Like it's a political system with probably a hundred different parties.
@@fluffynator6222most people don't understand the system in their own country. That's just how ot is. EU politics is not that complex.
This election was better then feared/expected. The grand coalition is still in power.
True, the troika of EPP, S&D and Renew is pretty much undisturbed.
@@ouwebrood497 only a matter of time?
I believe in American exceptionalism, in the way that we essentially paved the way for Europe to go through it's own 2016 and subsequent Trump years. We really are pioneers.
Can't believe Donald Trump ruined the whole world. This sucks
The far right gained like 20 seats in a 700 seat parliament. They are nowhere close to a majority. This was a slight shift towards the right, but it was nowhere near as scary as I and many others predicted it to be nor are the doomer headlines from the English speaking press justified. But then again, they always fear monger about European stuff cause of - as you said - American exceptionalism. To you guys we're just dirty and bad.
it always begins here in America and then it follows every where else.
@joca2903 hmmm I don't think this is actually true.
@@joca2903 authoritarians have more money and better propaganda skills than any other faction in the world and it makes sense they put all their effort into trying to make america as chaotically rightwing as they possibly could since America is the beacon of the world and usually sets the trends for the world....I have zero doubt that the whole "MAGA movement" had more money and man power thrown behind it than any psyop that has ever occured in human history because they recognized they were losing their iron grip and needed to throw everything including the kitchen sink behind the MAGA movement in order to influence the world population to be sympathetic to right wing initiatives which obviously are always aimed at benefitting the super rich and authoritarian leaders around the world...
basic consensus right now is: yes the right grew, but not enough to see drastic policy changes from the last decade. We still have a chance to get our shit together for the next election before too much damage is being done.
No drastic policy change can come out of the EU parliament, who is basically powerless and useless. Watch out for the potential changes in the executive branches of the member states, though.
Basic consensus was fascism is stupid and people in Europe would understand that being united is a good thing but look where it went, the liberals/center right/center left are completely useless (at least in Italy), either the left get it's shit together and convinces people with at least "some" populism or we will be pretty doomed
but be honest...will we get our shit together? Also what's even the time frame on that, till the next election?
let's hope the right parties save us from progressives and their bullshit concerning immigration and green terrorism
@@freniisammii The future is uncertain, and not within our control, but our actions still are. To give up now is to fail on purpose while there is still a reasonable chance. I'm not even an optimist, and yet even I realize it is important to not lose ourselves to doomerism.
We know what is right in this context, we know who is pushing this false ideology and why (generally). Fuck them, even if they win we should try to be the thorn in their side that gets badly infected.
Left won in Ireland
They won in the Nordics too, bucking the general trend, but we send so few MEPs to Parliament as it is. It feels like a drop in the ocean compared to the number of seats that are filled by MEPs from the large countries of the Union.
Sort of. The centre right did. I’ve noticed that Ireland is currently very stagnant. It’s a good thing in that it mostly keeps the far right out, but a bad thing in that it stops the left from actually winning.
If the last two years in the US or the last 5 in the UK are any indication of what rightoid rule looks like these days…
Europe is in for an interesting 5 years
With like 2 countries having a left victory, I'm not certain what this will do. Granted, despite being European, I am not certain what good this will do.
@@HippoEnjoyer that's been the main thing in Irish politics for ages. it seems like the only far right guy who won was in a local council in Dublin somewhere
Kinda of a pessimstic title, overall the far-right didn't grew that much.
Mostly a sensationalist click bait title
There is a far greater risk of seeing a rise of fascism in the USA than anywhere else in the West.
Does Vowsh know Merkel was the conservative leader? His knowledge of European politics really is nil.
She was, but by American standards "Liberal" would still apply to her. And it certainly does in the "manager of the status quo with zero direction or vision, standing by as the rich get richer and trust in democracy crumbles"- sense of the term, which is the Vaushian definition of the Liberal.
@@SignumInterriti I agree she would be considered a liberal by US standards, despite leading a conservative party. On most policies she would be identical to or more liberal/left than the US Democrats' platform. This goes against Vowsh's argument that the EU's left parties are to the right of the Democrats. She was bad on LGBTQ issues though, and had to be pushed towards things like gay marriage by her conservative CDU party.
@@SignumInterriti"vision" is overated. A competent leader guides the country through its issues and perspectives in the now.
And make the rich richer is a worldwide trend with regard to wealth accumulation but not really an active policy of the CDU.
@@brun4775 The whole liberal/conservative spectrum of American politcal analysis is really shallow. Liberal in european terms is far more meaning in terms of classical liberalism, belief in the market, while at the same time having somewhat progressive views on social issues.
@@FrenkieWest32 Vision is, among other things, how you win elections.
It's less bad than expected actually
cry louder, commies!
I am the only good leftist and therefore i am the left.
-Vaush 2024
Stop hyperventilating. They got 16%. That's, like, RFK polling figures. Not saying it is great, but panic and doomerism rarely helped anyone.
Conservatives do not have a higher turnout then progressives in EU elections. Being anti EU actually makes people less likely to vote in EU elections. We saw this in the Netherlands, turnout for PVV voters was WAY lower, while Volt, a progressive EU party got twice the share of the votes they usually do. I don't know how Vaush can say this so authoritatively.
That and leftists being uninterested in EU politics. Like the idea of The International is a major leftist heritage, why wouldn't leftists be interested in international or at least trans-national cooperation?
They have in Finland. The conservatives are often well-to-do people who are more likely to vote in elections that seem more obscure to people like Eu-elections.
@@SorbusAucubaria what? The most eurosceptic party in Finland is (True) Finns party and their voting base is hardly well-to-do. It's pretty safe to draw correlation between euroscepticism and lack of enthusiasm to show up at voting booths. The majority of wealthy people in Finland vote NCP(kokoomus) and they are pro-EU.
@@SorbusAucubariahey now, aren't all Finns supposed to be 'well to do'?? Hmmm
Is this just more Nordic propaganda being sold to us as fact lol
no, the anti eu crowd has switched to voting on EU elections with the goal of hurting the EU easily a decade ago.
My fellow Americans, remember where were your corporations regulated for antitrust behavior
Nowhere actually. Europe regulates them about as often as the US (rarely).
Vaush is wrong. 3/4 of Europe is not France & Germany. This is a European-wide election.
Centre-Left, Centre & Centre-Right MEPs have a super majority (3/5) in the EU Parliament.
If the Left votes against the Far-Right, that super majority turns into an absolute (4/5) majority.
The Far-Right went up by 9 MEPs.
@@JamieElli not true... Cases appear all the time.
this is the real failure of the left; they're absolutely toothless when it comes to reigning in big money and corporations. and i get it as it's the primary way to fund campaigns from donations from these individuals and corporations, but it really kneecaps any political message they have when they fold on green energy because it might hurt company's bottom line and fail to reframe immigration as what it really is, employers exploiting workers who are too fearful to speak up because it may threaten their immigration status which is why immigrants get hired over citizens in the first place.
Vaush is wrong. 3/4 of Europe is not France & Germany. This is a European-wide election.
Centre-Left, Centre & Centre-Right MEPs have a super majority (3/5) in the EU Parliament.
If the Left votes against the Far-Right, that super majority turns into an absolute (4/5) majority.
The Far-Right went up by 9 MEPs.
I think this would have been a good moment to do a classic "I have no idea about this topic, so let's dig in and find out about it together!" - segment. I always like those
Booooring. Just make funny jokes about Europe-America that'll get views and clicks
Vaush talking german politics is like a drunken baby trying to describe a complex painting. There is a lot of funny noises, and maybe some accidental correct takes, but just not enough detailed knowledge for any meaningful conversation to be had.
I know right. 'west Germany didn't invest in east Germany' fucks sake. I like Vaush but I lose so much respect when he just riffs nonsense confidently like that.
That's Vaush for you bro. I know he is eloquent but it is canon he mostly doesn't know what is talking about. Do you remember when he tried to remake the periodic table live, in 5 minutes. You know the only thing in history of humanity we are sure about.
Vaush thinks that he as an American understands everything political around the world.
He's wrong.
I think he is infected with gerrymanders.
The fact he said the Democrats are more leftwing than leftist groups in Europe💀
@@williamhenry8914East Germany is poor af though?
This is not as bad as it looks.
The far right parties only gained about 19 seats overall; and we know for a fact that the EPP (the biggest party in the parliament which is centre right) is not going to look to them for support.
The far right made gains, sure, but they’re still going to be on the opposition benches.
The "West" is not a complete monolith. Within the EU, some countries maintained progressive power and even went a bit more to the left. Also, Mexico just elected a somewhat progressive Jewish woman, so there's that, too.
Mexico is so far removed from the situation in Europe that I don't see the relevancy of that, It's not even clear that Mexico is part of the "West".
Why tf are you bringing up Mexico?
I think the argument that Mexico is not far removed from any western country is much more valid considering the amount of trade that goes through the continent and to the US.
Any progressive victory matters, in the same way that any unions are a threat to corporate greed. If you let one form, more tend to follow and then you get unions backing each other up.
He has a good point. Vaush seems like he was having a mood swing in this episode to be honest, though most of what he said still made sense. I say that having a background in psychology. He may have been withdrawing a little.
@@Dante3214 I meant that is far removed culturally speaking, economically speaking obviously is extremely close to the US, but the left in Mexico is very different and the victory of the left has nothing to do with Western conceptions of progressivism or anything like that, it's mostly a reaction to the failure of the PRI and the PAN when they were in power.
@@fafolaw in what way is Mexico culturally far removed from ''the West''? What is the culture of ''the West''?
In Portugal, two moderate parties got over twice the votes of the far-right party, and the liberals were nearly tied with them. Not terrible.
Thankfully chega voters are not very interested in European elections, wich is not surprising honestly
CHEGA is André Ventura. When he's not on the ballot, the party loses 2/3 of their base. Cult of personality stuff.
Chega is not far right. It's conservative right.
@@tiagos5804 With all the talk of regime change, allusions to the Salazar dictatorship, plans for radical constitutional change in order to centralize state power... yeah, no.
And on top of that having just delusional science denial and tons of horrible ideas -- like how almost a third of Chega members voted in favor of the state forcibly removing a woman's uterus as punishment for getting an abortion???
And then all of the constant attacks of minorities, scapegoating gypsies and queers for all of society's troubles, under the rule of a "corrupt elite" weaponizing them against the "good people" for their own evil interests -- prototypical populism if I ever saw it.
That is "far-right" enough for me.
@@tiagos5804 I'll definitely trust a guy with a caravela portuguesa avatar to judge what is or isn't far right. Just gonna ignore every available source like Politico, Reuteurs, EuroNews, NYT, Wikipedia, BBC, Bloomberg, etc., right buddy? Facts don't fit your narrative :(
The european right wing is decidedly not as degenerate as the americans, and it can never be. Every single socio-economic condition is different.
Most european right wingers, yeah. But our far right people are just a degen as the american's.
I'm from Czechia and am kind of losing my faith in younger (my) generation here. When they quite largely vote for a guy who denies climate change and has no program, doesn't even speak English properly and his whole campaign is basically just: "I hate Green Deal and love big cars."
I'm from Czechia as well and yeah, it's extremely stupid. The whole country is conservative in the cringiest way possible.
I love my city (Prague), but I hate most czechs so much. Most of friends are foreigners, I think most czechs are just impossible to socialize with for me.
Soooo what your solution on climate change coused by man? Less Atome energy, more import from China, paperbackes made out of trees?)) Ohhh no a man is not good at english, shame on him.. may I ask why?
I'm from Romania, and the most ridiculous far right monkeys just got voted to go do their circus act in Bruxelles. Same rhetoric as yours, same conspiracy theories. Me right now just be like "well, at least they will be leaving the country, and that's a good point, no ?" 😂 But tbh, they are not policy makers, just conspirationists. Far more dangerous in their own country, at least in EU Parliament they will be less heard here. I mean, shit, we have a mumps epidemic (and whooping cough right on it's tail) due to antivaxxers, so by "exiling" their local MTGs and so on to Brussels, at least -maybe- there will be less noise here ;)
Who are you talking about? I overheard some boomers in a pub loudly yelling about the green new deal and was so confused since I thought it was a US policy.
@@Nextr0nWasTaken I'm talking about Filip Turek (party: Přísaha a Motoristé)
32:30 - Is Vaush going to ignore that the border is basically the number one issue for Trump supporters?
Like, that's no different to Europe.
Ignore? It's the policy that Trump was elected on and he even mentions it in a previous video in the last few weeks.
@@CheshaGurimu Well he claims that Europe is more xenophobic when US politics is just as motivated by fear of migrants
Still Europe is a lot more racist than the USA.
@@CheshaGurimu
Click the timestamp. He says Europe is more xenophobic despite the US electing Trump on the migration topic as well.
@@fluffynator6222 That can also be true at the same time as not ignoring that Trump was elected on that platform policy. It's a non-sequitur.
the fest has wallen (i love adding value to political discussion)
Me too Philip, me too
This coverage by Vaush was frankly kind of garbage. You can tell he hardly did any research, there is hardly any nuance here. Kind of an Hassan take to be honest.
Generally Vaush does well....not this time though.
Vaush covering on South Korea's gender issues was horrible and people literally blamed Korean men for everything without knowing Korea's real problems that both K men adn K women are facing.
Maybe non asians feel they know Asia better than the natives, that's the why literally 100% of Vasuh's fanbase didn't even question about his lack of infos.
At least, I'm glad some Europeans pointing about Vaush's garbage perspectives on foregin politics.
Its fine to not do research, if you can still make valid commentary and/or demolish your debate opponents.
Sadly he didn't do that here.
@@Khalkara> No research
> Valid commentary
What does Valid mean to you?
@@Whyhandle888 Vaush also did a similar thing regarding Japan.
@@TheRealZeke2003 The same as it does for most people? Being based on logic and/or fact.
Do you not realize you don't need to research the entire history of a country to correctly call out bad policy being enacted in said country today?
European center right is more left than the Democrats... I voted center right half of the time and I disagree with most US politics. They are not pro russian, (Le Pen is not center right) most of the right wingers are pro Ukraine, they are just neither social democrats nor green, they are conservative / classical liberal...
EU parties are not to the left of US?
Let's see...
1. Healthcare - Privatizing healthcare in EU is a an extreme far right, fringe position that has virtually no support, even among people who vote for those far right parties. In US it's the default, with only a minority of progressive Democrats that want a change.
2. Labor laws - Most EU countries have 20+ minimum days of paid leave, virtually unlimited sick leave, functioning labor unions, termination protections, minimum 14 months of maternity leave (longer in many countries, many also include paternity leave) and annually increasing minimum wage. As far as I know, only far right (and not even all of those parties) is trying to really infringe upon those rights. Even groups recognized as right wing often want to expand employee privileges' and protections in order to appeal to poor voters.
3. Women's rights - Really depends on the country. In some, right and far right try to restrict abortion rights but it is by no means a rule.
4. LGBT rights - again, country dependent, but generally there is no anti-trans hysteria going on in Europe, and in many countries things like gay marriage are settled law.
5. Immigration - Similar to US I'd say, definitely going right in the last decade, mostly due to middle eastern immigration.
And please do not mix UK political positions with EU.
1. They left EU.
2. Far more than other European countries, they decided to fully import all social trends from US, which currently includes anti-trans hysteria.
Privatizing healthcare is basically unthinkable in EU countries.
And honestly, the most radical of the far righters are probably still not the level of crazy of the most radical Republicans. If anything, the crazy is only high because the US loves exporting its culture wars.
And don't even get started on keeping under control the religious nuts. Creationism isn't taught in European schools.
why did you start this with healthcare and labour laws when three seconds after he made the statement he explicitly said he was talking about social progressivism as opposed to economics? He also is comparing specifically large left leaning parties in Europe and in the US, so talking about the far right is irrelevant in this context.
You didn't include separation of church and state. Here we know to keep our nutters under control.
1. Privatizing healthcare is absolutely not considered a far right position. Every centrist to right-wing party i've seen supports privatization, with the difference that they won't always outright say that "public healthcare is bad". Speech about the "free market" and how it will "bring down costs" in healthcare is rampant virtually everywhere.
4. The problem across most places in the EU, is that "settled law" doesn't mean much. Discrimination, and various forms of imported hysteria are still there and in many places it's just the de facto law. In many places, I'd almost say that the cops treat LGBT people far worse than the US, and they get away with it, because there's no accountability system or transparency, unless the news get involved. Even bodycams simply don't exist.
I really wish Vaush would read more before talking about these international issues; Or go watch PBS Newshour or something idk.
Vaush (liberal) argues with chat (liberals) about the inaction of liberals in preventing the rise of the far-right (liberals)
The main reason for this, imo, is that we have conpletely lost the battle for placing our issues. Almost every country is talking endlessly about immigration, ignoring inequality and capitalist injustices entirely. It works every time for the right.
So maybe when everyone says that their main concern is immigration the Left should do something about the immigration if those parties want to be elected...
the most common talking point you see everywhere without end is about housing prices...
Sadly true many forget who enabled and supported Franco, then later Mussolini and Hitler. hint; not just far right conservatives and their elites, but unwittingly the liberal media and corporates.
Huge waves of migration are a legitimate problem.
@@sophiepooks2174 and many of the working class and impoverished.
Thinking that the CDU is more right then the Democrats and the EU is more xenophobic than the Trump voting Americans is bonkers xD
"Progressives" in Poland are EPP, center right. The most left wing party is social democrat, and they have 3/50 seats.
The left in Poland is barely relevant in any way as far as I understand. I was told by some Polish friends that their structures mostly just exist in the largest cities and that's that, you'd be hard-pressed to find them in smaller towns. As a result, the working class/women tend to vote en masse for other parties, including PiS, whereas Konfederacja is popular among the youth (18-29).
@@mariusamber3237 The left in Poland used to be incredibly strong, in 2005 the far left Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej came in 3rd with 11% of the vote. They then formed a coalition with PIS which was not stable, the leader of the party Andrzej Lepper got caught up in multiple corruption allegations. The party fell under the 5% threshold in 2007, the leader probably k*lled himself in 2011 by hanging and the party disbanded.
@@Edmuresrampantmanhood-dp3jd Lepper got Epsteine'd
Chat was confusing the naming of ideologies with the political spectrum. Conservatism means the same thing in both the USA and Europe. Meloni's Mussolini party is literally in the conservative EU party. Our idea of right and left is just different. For example liberals are considered either center or moderately right wing in Europe whereas in the USA they're considered to be left of center. Also Vaush is right Joe Biden is just as socially progressive as the left wingers here in The Netherlands. Only his economic stances would be considered center or center-right.
Left won pretty big in Sweden!
All it took was decades of propaganda and price fixing.
10 years
More like 10 Years of Muslim Migration of mostly millions of Men who are more right wing radical with their views on Religion, Womens & Gay Rights than any average Western right winger lol
Uh, you're kidding right? We were expecting far worse here. They got the usual 10% support when we were expecting over 30%.
Like, sorry Vaush, but your takes on European politics are about as accurate as your superhero takes: Stormtrooper level.
The far right parties have pretty much the same seats of the moderate left. Cope.
Far right is 25% of the seats, much closer to 30 than to 10. Of course if you count only the most extreme even the other far right doesn't want to be with, they are at 10%, but it's not the only flavour of fascism Europe has to offer.
It's like if you said "it's ok, Trump voters are only 10%" while forgetting the 15% of de Santis voters right next to them.
@@pierluigiadreani2159 Citation needed.
@@leparfumdugrosboss4216Implying Europe is in any way comparable to the stuff America has. You would have had a point if the UK were still un Europe, buuuuuut...
@@lazaroskarmaniolas7410 I'm just providing the data, which is what it is: unless you rank the group containing the french far right as not being far right (which would be delusional), the far right in the EU parliament is 25%, not 10%.
The Trump/De Santis analogy isn't very good, admittedly, but the idea is clear: "slightly less batcrap crazy than the most crazy" does not mean "sane". If that was my main point your counterargument would be valid, buuuuuuut...
Honestly incredible how uninformed he is about EU politics.
I don’t get why he comments on it honestly
He can’t be expected to know everything but cmon now
@@nepolana1407 He loves to pretend everything's worse in Europe. It's some weird American thing they do so they feel better about how messed up their country is. American exceptionalism plays into it as well. Funny that he was in Spain recently and literally saw for himself in what a bad shape North America actually is by comparison though.
nope, he pretty much on point
@@schtreg9140 Europe has its share of problems and it’s important that we address them. The thing that gets me is his lack of understanding and knowledge about Europe and its politics. Reducing it down to “Europeans losing their minds because of 5 Syrians” is precisely why the left is getting less popular in some countries. It’s like he doesn’t do any research prior to his takes
@@schtreg9140 👍💯
12:45 I would really like Vaush to elaborate on this point.
Why has it not been true for a long time?
Because basically every European party left from the ~30% right-right-wing block doesn‘t only give lip service to women and LGBT issues but actually helps to pass laws protecting their rights. Meaning our center parties actively promote abortion rights and so on, how many times has the Biden regime passed any pro-abortion bills again?
I will gladly admit that by this point our far right is as lost as the American one but I still think our ‚liberals‘ are worth slightly more than the Democrats. And then we obviously have entire parties to the left of that where the US only has more Democrats that are ultimately forced to also vote for Biden.
19:35 Counter-question: Why do you need Biden and his government specifically to be more progressive than the EU?
Sure seems to me like center Biden would profit if there were parties to the left of him as well, he could use them to actually push through bills instead of being constantly stopped by member of his umbrella party.
He can try to elaborate but he's only gonna discover that he is wrong
These are very good questions...
One of the biggest problems for the ruling coalition in Germany is that the big-biz friendly FDP is part of it. The FDP should be of marginal importance based on its numbers but they get to torpedo any progressive leaps the Greens and SPD could have made. The FDP has no problem with damaging Germany because their clientele is so rich, they are mostly immune to consequences.
Yes. The greens are also the scapegoat for anything that goes wrong in the current coalition, even tho they're not the people fucking it up, which causes them to lose a shit ton of voters to more conservative parties. Well, either way the Ampel literally passed more legislation in 3 years than the CDU in 8, and progressive one at that. The FDP really is the main party stopping more positive change for the majority of the population
True. But I also want to remind everyone of the fact that while the FDP sucks, also SPD helped to forge the constitutional amendment that is the underlying reason why progressive social and economic policy is basically outlawed for good in Germany. I'm talking of the strict 'annual debt brake', of course.
It's fiscal insanity and neoliberalism enshrined into state doctrine. The worst and most abominable article ever crafted into a constitutional article. Even if the Coalition wasn't as divided as is, they'd need a supermajority to counter any legal challenge by the CDU, which has been completely uncompromising in this question, knowing that it will break the coalition, completely ignoring that the AfD will also profit from the complete lack of much-needed economic reform and public investment, ignoring that it will bring Germany and possibly Europe to its knees.
@@maniak1768 Absolutely. The SPD (and Schröder in particular) so thoroughly betrayed the ideals of social democracy to neoliberalist greed that it is almost impossible to take seriously. Their strongest identity is "The Not-CDU". Their main advantage is that they do not engender the irrational hatred the Greens do.
that is not true. The biggest problem in germany is the chancellor, Scholz. He's the most spineless coward I have ever seen in a politician, even to go as far as partially sucking up to putin.
Also the FDP is really not immune to losing votes. They fell out of the Bundestag completely for failing to reach the 5% hurdle just 2 election cycles ago.
this man knows nothing about about Germany
he's american, what would you expect
As usual with this guy.
he's acting like he genuinely knows more about Germany and Europe than germans and europeans lol
@@AverageAustiniteprobably does this with other topics too
@@EntyFah definitely does this with other topics. I don’t think he’s being sarcastic when he tells his audience “i am always correct”. he unironically thinks this.
Why do you say liberals lost. Most of the ideas that those central right parties propose are unity and social security.
I think he's conflating left parties with liberal, forgetting that the overton window is further to the left in Europe than in the US.
Vaush: "What has European liberals done except [just describes liberalism]?"
Why does he except liberals to be the ones to not be liberals?
Claiming the USA is more progressive than Europe is cope. Even during a far-right resurgence European countries have better worker rights, public healthcare and pensions, are not experiencing an epidemic of abortion bans, and aren't setting quotas to how many refugee status applications they're willing to process in a day before rejecting everyone at the border (which would violate international law). They also aren't as supportive of nations who are currently in the process of committing countless war crimes and crimes against humanity like Israel and Saudi Arabia. They also didn't vote against enshrining access to food as a human right and they don't actively oppose the ICC or have prepared plans to invade the Hague.
The USA is worse. Europe is getting worse too, but the USA is a worse plce to live
Far right is a civilization killer. The people like the idea of ruling by terror and dividing their country.
I do agree, I think Vaush has the bias in this head where he reads bad stuff about the US and can more or less put it in a context and knows how bad it is but the moment he reads about anything bad happening in the EU he just thinks "Ah, they are like a third world country and will just completely go nuts now".
Italy and France bowing down to Fascists? Shocked
Want safe streets, love there's country, don't support marginalization - fassist!!!))
People dont want to get stabbed in the streets. and they dont want to be called fascist because they are not far-left.
@@ПеремогобудIt’s okay to want safer places. It is also important to know that one or multiple ethnicities are not the only cause for criminality in the countries.
@@Who_is_this_da_heck in case of western Europe we can clearly see that multiculturalism is the mane reson, yes locals do crimes, but if we can save 1 life by not letting in doctors-engenirs from Africa I will tell you that is worth it. I am now in a prison - Ukraine) but even here we never have had a situation since 90s when you could be stabed or robed, that's crasy to be a women and be scary to walk outside
Here in France, the leaders of the far right party got to celebrate the 80th birthday of 6th june with Macron while the left wing parties leaders are still labeled as antisemitics because they criticized Israël.
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old world?
Conservatives: “I hate the young people.”
@@OliveThat Young people voted FOR the far-right in general
Get back to us after November, it's looking like you'll be getting a second serving on Trump.
We're not doing any better. Right now it's 50/50 who will have to reach who that lesson.
What? You taught nothing. You collaborated with the failed painter from Vienna and even refused to take part in the war until Japan forced your hand. Don't make me laugh about Muricans feeling high and mighty, you are even worse for centuries than what Europe has ever been.
while the result is undoutedly really bad the reality is that the balance of power in the EU-parliament has barely changed.
Now it's up to the conservatives, social democrats and libs to get their shit together.
I fear that we are just delaying the inevitable if nothing changes.
It's funny that Americans idolized us for no reason for the last couple of decades, and they're only now realising we're not just holiday destinations but actual countries with big problems. And this is somehow our fault. We didn't ask Americans to do that. Maybe pay more attention to global politics instead of just thinking our accents are cute.
The Danish results are amazing, Socialistisk Folkeparti, an incredibly progressive party, won! The runner-up was the regular winner Socialdemokraterne, who are decently left-wing but with a center core.
Just for context, SF runs on pro-refugee-integration, pro-extreme-climate-measures, anti-industrial-farming, expansion of welfare messaging. In Denmark, one of the EU countries that has the highest expense per refugee/immigrant, has very high levels of industrial farming, and is already very expensive to live in. I am so proud that so many Danes can see the benefits to our society that come with diversity, nature, and collaboration.
“Europe is less progressive than America” screw off. Try getting Americans to vote for a party that wants to facilitate that you take more refugees and spend more resources to integrate them. WOULD. NEVER. HAPPEN. IN. AMERICA. EEEEEVEER.
Calling people far right didn’t stop them from noticing patterns about immigration? 😧
Finland oddly had opposite result. Far right was projected to get 14% and 2 spots, but got 7% and 1 spot. The Left party that tends to stay at 10%, miraculously got 19% due to the popular leader getting record amount of votes.
Though granted, party getting the most votes, ~25%, is the center-right who are part of that center-right coalition. Still, for Finns it was defense victory for left. Far-right here just don't care enough about EU
Luckily moderate party was still the biggest. Far right and far left should stay in the side lines.
Some good news from Sweden's EU election. The far right party (SD) didn't get near the expected amount of votes, they went from 15,3% to 13,2%. Prior to the election they were expecting to be the 2nd largest party. But instead they went from 3rd biggest in 2019 to 4th biggest this year. The leader of SD actually said that the party needs to have a serious conversation about why their popularity growth seems to have stagnated. I suspect that they've hit their peak. And since most of their voters are old, it's only going to go down from here.
And the left party (V) got a pretty significant increase. They went from 6,8% in the last election to 10,9% in this one. Which is really nice. They're still just the 5th biggest party. But in 2019 they were ranked 6th. And now 3 of the top 5 parties are part of the left wing bloc.
While the rest of Europe is going screwy it's starting to look like my country is slowly getting back on track.
And the greens (MP) did a major leap forward
I looks like in most countries in central/eastern Europe (France, Germany, Poland) the far-right is very popular among the youth (18-29). In most of those countries the left is very weak/ineffectual, too, so it's just a battle between the centre-right and far-right.
Luckily the nordics had a big left wave
I did my part
Yeah lets turn EU into soviet union, but with arabs, dead economie and unpopupating)))
@@TehSlice360
You, fckn traitor.
One thing I have seen in a lot of countries is that the far right has a peak of popularity and once they reach it, they start falling slowly into irrelevancy in most of Europe they are still on the early stages
That's kind of my hope as well but I'm not confident that it will happen accross the board.
In my country (France) the far-right is decently smart and politicaly competent, they've done a decent job at giving themselves a new clean image and keeping the most insane members away from positions of power.
They also have the support of much of the billionnaire class, and their increasingly important control of french media. They also benefit from having been able to spread their ideas for 20 years without much competent opposition in the public stage, for a variety of reasons that mostly have to due with french media having been cooked for a long time, our center-left parties being not that much better than Labor at times, and the populist left that eventually became a major political bloc being led by a man who knows he can only remain successful and important if the left is ineffective, divided and stuck as an opposition party.
So while I still think the far-right may reveal itself incompetent as an actual governing party if they manage to win the only election that really matters (which is the presidential election because France), it's not garanteed and there is such a big push to the far-right from so many different groups that I could see us going a similar route as Hungary.
Germany also seems to be in a pretty bad state, but Poland and the NL gave me hope for other countries, maybe their far-right will only be able to win once.
The problem is that a lot of the opposition of these parties Is very incompetent. Here in Italy, Meloni was a lot more radical when she was an opposition leader, she has become much more moderate since she won the elections in Italy and most people are still ok with her since they figure that she hasn't done any major blunder yet, and the left is quite pathetic too. The same could happen with Le Pen in France I suppose.
As a German, as devastating as this news has been, it is at least a relief to hear that the French are doing even worse.
Ich hab so keinen Bock mehr auf den ganzen Scheiß hier.
Das ist was passiert wann Mann wählt dass der Land besucht sehr unpopulären Reformen.
Macron hat zum die extrem Recht der Land geschenkt.
okay but Li Andersson slayed and I'm glad to have voted for her
I chose pretty early on that I'd vote for some other leftie here, because I figured she was going to get in anyway and I wanted to have a voice who the "potential second candidate" should be
Wasn't quite expecting this though
I think Li Andersson might have won presidential elections if people thought she would have a chance. My parents who often vote the center rigt party said they like her. She is extremely competent and likable.
@@SorbusAucubariaeven my center party voting mother loves her, even though she's not a leftie. My mom doesn't believe in leftie stuff, but she thinks Li is extremely competent and likable.
I'm a leftist and i love Li. She's genuinely amazing
Li ❤
@@sacrilegioussasquatch even my paranoid anti-communist grandparents like her! she’s such an icon
I'm sorry, why are we calling Merkel a liberal? She was the head of the CDU and she's a conservative. The CDU is still one of the (if not the) strongest parties in Germany. She was voted in by conservatives and not liberals. I fail to see how her 16 year reign has anything to do with a failure of liberalism, aside of course from libs not providing a better candidate.
As an East German, I can confirm that there has been a massive surge in votes for the AfD, especially in my region. Just this Sunday, there was also a run-off between an AfD and a leftist candidate for the district admin. The AfD candidate lost, but for quite a few years it has always been just the same for the far-right in East Germany: victory denied is only victory delayed. Remarkably, the AfD did already have many communal seats, and has had for years, but their policies and political participation sucked. Really, objectively, sucked. Dumbest ideas, dumbest alternatives, dumbest moves. Still, since the ruling federal government coalition, also called the Traffic Light coalition, has been dominated by constant internal quarrels, terrible communication of plans, and a bleak wax puppet chancellor, the voters tended to use the last municipal elections to punish the ruling parties, although there is a huge difference between municipal, state and federal government. Nevertheless, the AfD is growing in dominance, and the CDU in some East German states is really just an AfD-enabling party. In my state, the Green and liberal party have always been underdogs, always close to failing the 5 percent parliamentary entry barrier for votes, so they don't play a significant role aside from a few areas (Jena and Weimar).
Also, the AfD being called far-right doesn't bother the voters at all. If you talk to them, they will tell you outright: "Well, what they are proposing sounds pretty reasonable and grounded to me, and if that's far-right, then I will oblige. I will happily out myself as far-right and only vote far-right from now on." So the old days when it was considered to be a mark of shame to be far-right are officially over even in Germany.
The most tragic thing, however, is, it was the Greens who successfully campaigned on lowering the age of voting to 16 years. As a Green myself I've been pretty much skeptical about it, considering that in most cases there isn't enough political education there, not enough seriousness. But it had to happen anyway, and gratitude is truly short-lived sometimes.
I think it was to be expected to have some losses, but even worse: the established parties don't seem to find an answer to right-wing strategies. Especially the ones undermining social and ecological policies with conspiracy- and pseudo-science-fuelled nonsense. It should be easy, but it isn't. When the workers start voting far-right, then social democracy has done something terribly wrong.
I really need to ask You thi -, how can You still be pro Green party (I'm assuming), when time and time again proofs of them and NGO's affiliated with them being directly funded by Kremlin are found? I'm curious what's Your stance on it is, and do You even recognize it as being a thing in Germany & in Your public discourse? Stuff You guys did with the atom up there under their influence is just mindgobblin to me.
6 more seats isn't winning big.
In Sweden, though, the Left Party made the largest gains, followed by the Greens. Our fascy far-right wing party lost votes for the first time, mainly because they suggested there could be limits on support for Ukraine (and also the their russian-style troII factory was exposed, this combined with an old habit of openly fawning over Putin)
Very bizarre. Our left love putin. Not joking
Vausg talking about liberals in this vid is so ffing confusing as a European. Liberals are what we call the civic rightwing.
Not really that confusing. I'm pretty sure 99,9% of his viewers know what Americans consider liberal.
It's funny how Americans will throw out all manner of shit talk but the moment they get a little back they throw a hissy fit. "Sitting back and observing the facts." yeah. Clearly.
Did they forget what happened with the far right in Germany during the 30s & 40s? I still have people telling me that national socialism is far left.
The problem could be that with all of the people who went trough the war pretty much being gone the whole thing begins to feel abstract and unreal.
It's hard to forget if grandpa can tell you all about it, but to his great, great grandkids it's just words on a page or a movie.
It has socialism in it's name it must be socialism. /s
If your inner politic is socialism and ecology - than you are left, only national part of NSDAP is right
This is as dumb as pointing to Stalin regarding communist parties.
No, they want to return to that era and try again. My neighbour literally went on a racist rant the other day and said, "Wilkommen in Nazi Deutschland".
I do have a problem with how Vaush talks about the integration of East Germany.....i am German obv, I am from Bavaria and live right now in Leipzig, which is in the State of Saxony (East Germany), while I have only ever lived in bigger cities I can speak to them, I can't speak for rural areas (of which there are a lot still)
my problem is that I don't know what else we should have done to integrate the East, I think we all know the history of West and East Germany but they are pretty close right now
I think right now the salaries in the East are lower, and the pensions are lower but the cost of living is also much lower than in the West so it kinda doesn't matter if you take into account what you actually get for your money
I don't think the extreme amount of voters for the AFD in East Germany is a reason for the failed integration, they think it failed because some people told them and they never did a fact-check because they either don't want to, don't know how to or are simply too stupid
Saying German society is not acting against the right wing is wrong, we might not be doing enough but we are doing a lot
we have the least amount of right-wing votes among the major countries of the EU, maybe Spain has less but everyone else has a way bigger right-wing problem than Germany
also in Germany you can't just jail anyone for just being a Nzi, he has to do certain actions, but he can still think as a Nzi and we can't jail him for that because we obv have freedom of thought
I don't know if I have sold my point here, ask if you don't get it.....i am obv, not a native speaker so sorry in advance
I guess selfishness and shortsightedness aren't just American phenomena.
Vaush really needs to leave the west coast. This is what gives him "the UK outside of London is like Mississippi" takes.
Give me a 7days ban, but I have to say this.
The result of this election was mainly driven by average people not getting out and voting, the right-wing voters felt more motivated, because they perceived their issues as unaddressed and real (due to right-wing populism), while the libs were sitting home farting methane into their Swedish sofa. Poland is a great example: they had a period when the average people were more invested in politics for the last year, which lead to more people visiting the polling station (which resulted in the moderate party winning the EU elections). What I’m trying to say, is that the main reasons why the EU results moved to the right, is because of average people not voting (hey, I’m not saying that’s the solution to all the issues) while the right-wing people actually got out and voted.
And yes: Europe is more progressive than the US. I want to remind you that 42% of Republicans identify as MAGA (the least progressive you can be), while the Republicans as a whole are not exactly moderates (especially right now). I’m not saying that the far right is not a threat in Europe or that it is not growing (especially in Germany), but it’s also BS to claim that Europe is less progressive (and genuinely: who cares, I said it because I felt moved by what Vaush said), and I’m going to remind you of that, when I’ll come on holiday to America for 25 days of my guaranteed annual leave.
It really depends on what you define as progressive. When it comes to "social issues" (racism, LGBT rights...), the EU on average consistently poll worse than the US, by a significant margin. There are some issues with these polls, but not enough to explain such a significant gap. Of course we're miles ahead when it comes to economic progressivism, but in some countries that is starting to change.
But it's true that our share of far-right electors are for the most part nowhere near as extreme as the current GOP is. The problem using that as a metric is that there is a huge disconnect between the voters and the politicians within the US right. Most Maga voters are nowhere near the degree of insanity of the people they elect. It's up to you whether that matters, but it means that polling on public opinions at a personnal and individual level does not match with the electoral and political make-up of the US.
Also, the 42% of Americans identifying as Maga seems a bit much to me, considering that Republicans as a whole are a shrinking minority. I'd be interesting to see how people arrived at that number.
I agree with your analysis of why this election went relatively well for the far-right. Disinterest and mild-euroscepticism among mostly left-leaning people was pretty high, which certainly played a factor.
@@poncho3326 Yes: social issues are approached in a more progressive way in the US (not always, but mostly). But everyday life is more progressive in Europe: normal healthcare, guaranteed annual/parental leave, minimum wage that actually affects more than 2 people, public transportation, taxation, ecological solutions and so on.
What I meant is that 42% of Republicans (not Americans overall) identifies as MAGA, according to a national poll (NBC).
@@poncho3326 What polls would those be? I kind of doubt it.
@@redminute6605 I agree with you on things like healthcare, taxation, environmental issues and workers right as a whole, but all of this still mostly related to economic and work policy.
I would overall agree that these issues tends to more directly and strongly affect people's live everyday than what we would typically consider as social issues, but I think social issues have their importance as a metric beyond how much they impact people on a day to day basis, especially when it come to how culturaly progressive a population is. Much of the shift we see right now in the EU is because right and far-right politicians are able to find support among a portion of the public that is in theory more supportive of workers rights, environmentalism, taxation and welfare states than the US, but who in practice is willing to put that aside if the right appeals to their bigotry and cultural fears.
Also, I googled "42% of Americans identify as MAGA NBC", and the first result I got was an 2022 NBC poll stating that 42% of Republicans identify as MAGA, not of Americans as a whole. The next few results were more recent and didn't really mention that 42% figure, but mostly reported on how MAGA is viewed positively by a minority of Americans, about 25% or less.
Considering the Republicans overall are a demographic minority, a dwindling one at that, this makes sense to me.
Unless there's another major NBC poll I didn't saw, I'm afraid you might have misunderstood the poll you read.
Edit : nvm I'm stupid I misread both of your comments. Sorry lol
@@FrenkieWest32 I don't remember exactly, I think it was the internationnal Gallup polls but it might have been another polling organization. Can't seem to find it right now but I'll look it up some more and get back to you (and if I don't, assume I didn't find what I was looking for and disregard that part of my original comment).
Can't believe that voosh said the EU is everything wrong with the west
Actually, the right and center/right won. The far right groups came out in 4th or 5th, around that.
In my country it was around 25% center left, and around 62% center or center right and 13% far-right. While they seemed to have gotten more votes than before, the change was marginal. No need for doomerism yet.
And center-right you can work and reason with - just like with democrats in the US.
why is vaush taking the jokes of his chat so literally. He keeps trying to make himself come of as a victim for some reason. It's like every video nowadays. I understand he has autism but at this point he should be well accustomed to chat being goofy.
Finally the west is waking up!
Ur making a nice case for the revival of the lawcode called the :"vogelfreiheit"
Fingers crossed...
And for much needed further awakening watch the 12 hour documentary, *'Europa: The Last Battle'.*
@@LennyCash777 "Europa: The Last Battle is a 2017 English-language Swedish ten-part neo-Nazi propaganda film directed, written and produced by Tobias Bratt, a Swedish far-right activist associated with the Nordic Resistance Movement, a European neo-Nazi movement. It promotes antisemitic conspiracy theories, including Holocaust denial, and has been promoted across multiple social media platforms."
I love how half of you idiots are like "Why do you call us nazis sadface" and the other half is just recommending nazi propaganda.
@@Kuhmuhnistische_Parteiit may be. But the more you keep crying wolf the more people will actually be getting frustrated. I.e....you making people turn the the right with your echo chamber Internet social issues
German Liberalism is such a lukewarm shitshow. I remember when Neoliberalism was being sold as this great economic revolution we all would profit from, which was motivating people enough to do their extra hours and their fancy college degrees. They haven't been selling us Neoliberalism as such since the 2008 financial crisis now (because it was always a lie, duh) but somehow still expect us to work and study even harder. Yeah, uhm... For what exactly? So I can retire into poverty at 80? If I even make it that far without overworking myself and just die lmao. We're all getting poorer while working as hard as never before. Maybe it's time for some social reforms. Just... Maybe.
So are we gonna ignore the fact that Braun looks 1:1 exactly the same as Vaush?
It's fine... the far-right in its many forms is completely divided on all major policies.... that's why they have 3 different EU parliament groups... And they're incapable of negotiating anything.
I came here to see the meltdowns
Not much changed in fact. The previous government remains in power. Far right gained some, but it's manageable
Macron: Hindenburg moment ✅
In Finland the Left and Green parties had massive wins in the EU election, with the far right parties getting nothing. This is likely do to two thinks. Right wing people here don't care enough about the EU to vote, and our current right wing government has fucked things up real bad, and are planning to fuck things up worse. This has motivated people to come out and vote left.
I'm so shocked that we got fkn 16% afd in my country. I am disgusted and scared, the only good thing is that they didn't get the 28% that was predicted at one time. I'm really not looking forward to the Bundeswahl next year. Also the party I voted for (Volt) got over 200% groth in voters, they went from 1 to 3 seats.
The far left is not concerned about working class anymore .
It is more concerned about importing People from other countries .
The people with small ha:ts 🎩 are in charge of left .
And in charge of the right
The people of different countries are working class and their admission is lobbied by the European businessmen that colonized their countries to get raw materials and cheap workers
The parliament has minor power:
While the Commission has a monopoly on initiating legislation, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have powers of amendment and veto during the legislative process.
anything that isnt communist is far right to you people
Vaush seems to be struggling recently. I don’t think he’s got much left to offer as a streamer, he seems to be burning out.
renew europe are not conservatives, not in the american sense anyway, like cmon
Hey now! We in Finland did our part and the Left Party had a landslide victory while our homely facist party suffered a major defeat. It's the rest of the EU countries who are slacking. Also, the new EU parliament isn't exactly lost, but it's true that it's slightly more skewed towards far-right lunatics than last time. Not good development as a whole, I agree.
not all of those parties are far right, even if the international press wants to dramatize it that way. And most far-right parties become moderates, especially in Italy. The worrying ones are in the Netherlands.
Also, Russian dependency was solved very well in italy and the Italian government is aligned with NATO and against Russia, not all right share Trumpist values. To say that the west is fallen is exactly the way to create separation instead of dialogue and that leads to polarization, the biggest fault of the left, that you, Vaush are, repeating here. Btw I don't vote the right but I also don't need to farm views.
The green-workers party was the biggest in the Netherlands... PVV is kind of worrisome, but they're certainly not afd.
@@FrenkieWest32 true
The far right really didn't win big. France is not the whole of Europe. Many analysts say that the right actually under-performed big in these elections in most countries.
Well, it's not just france. It's also Italy and other countries where right wingers gain power, because centrists are losing it.
@@07Flash11MRC Thats still a far cry from the absolute misleading bullshit title Vaush chose for this video.
@@francescov.3610 I do agree with you on that. The problem are our laws. In Italy you only need to get the most votes as a party to be rewarded with 2/3rds of the seats (lex rosatellum). That's why even though just a quarter of the voters voted for Meloni and her party, from the outside it looks like Italy has gone fully fascist.