The AfD was twice as effective at reaching first-time voters on the app than all other parties combined, according to an analysis of platform data. This may explain why the party performed so well among young voters.

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    1 month ago

    Not sure, but I can say from personal experience here that, while right-wing parties are less popular amongst Gen Z, the right-wingers that are in Gen Z tend to be very political, not just casually political, and more extreme than your average Joe Schmoe conservative. Might be a contributor.

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      29 days ago

      Yeah it’s the same here, they and the younger gens have apparently gotten very polarized; the ones who are “good eggs” are really decent folks, and the shitty ones are really shitty.

      So while the extremist reich wing party PS (Perussuomalaiset or “Finns Party”, because naturally only a nationalist wank is a real Finn) was their most popular party, as a proportion of their cohorts more young people voted for the Left Alliance than older ones did. Here’s a handy table from our 2023 parliamentary elections (source):

      • KOK: National Coalition Party, fiscally conservative
      • PS: Finns Party, extremist right wing
      • SDP: Social Democrat, liberal / marginally left
      • KESK: Centre Party, what it says on the tin
      • VAS: Left Alliance, democratic socialists
      • VIHR: Green League, liberal & green
      • SFP: Swedish People’s Party, right wing
      • KD: Christian Democrats, nearly as bad as PS
      • LIIK: Movement Now, nominally center right but about as right wing as KOK

      Actually based on that study the claim that gen Z is more conservative than older gens doesn’t seem to hold up. Seems like they’re about as conservative, but also more likely to vote Left

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        29 days ago

        it has been shown:

        the more crisis in a society, the more pressure you need to keep it under control, the more extreme the outer fringes get. It is always this way.