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Unhappy lives linked to recent rise of right-wing populism in Europe (www.psypost.org)

submitted 1 week ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/europe

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[–] mettwurstkaninchen 87 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Additionally, the researchers found that life dissatisfaction indirectly influenced right-wing populist voting through two key attitudes: political distrust and anti-immigration sentiment. Dissatisfied individuals were more likely to distrust political institutions and view immigration negatively, which in turn increased their likelihood of voting for right-wing populist parties. Notably, anti-immigration sentiment emerged as the stronger of the two mediators.

And this is the key point of right-wing propaganda. Destroy trust into organizations, sow sentiments against immigrants, spread fear by overhyping individual crimes, produce anxiety. Basically "make people angry and fearful".

[–] P1r4nha@feddit.de 24 points 1 week ago

Yeah, duh: making immigrants and politicians the scapegoat works best when people are unhappy with life.

To me it's extremely transparent however that neoliberals and conservatives have defunded and weakened our institutions so they can no longer fulfill their responsibilities. This leads to dissatisfaction which the extreme right blames on immigrants and correctly on neoliberal politicians.

That this leads to women voting for patriarchs, Jewish people for descendants of Nazis and second generation immigrants for racists, is so frustrating.

[–] Schmerzbold 8 points 1 week ago

And since the media - especially social media - is trapped in an attention economy where mainly bad news drive engagement it's no wonder people have a skewed and negative view of reality.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yup fear uncertainty and doubt has underpinned conservative messaging forever. The outgroup are after your stuff, watch out!