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Re:How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right? by SNvD7vEJ on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @07:11AM (#11760521)
Absolutely, and these parties are posing as a solution to whatever the current problem happens to be (populism).

People looking for simplification, maybe because they are unable to understand more complex situations, tend to go for the shallow, simple-looking, party.

Re:How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right? by ThomPete on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @08:14AM (#11760895)
And people who are well educated seems to like complex systems for the sake of it. The world is literally filled with academics who loved and proposed complex systems to the detriment of the rest. It should come as no surprise that a combination of EU and the recent influx of refugees and immigrants is causing a reaction when people don't feel they get heard.