Re:Robots in Europe Vote for the Radical Right
by anandrew on Thursday November 25, 2021 @03:07PM
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> Is this true in most European countries?
Sort of. For an example that's not exactly worker rights, Hungary has a fertility rate of 1.52 births/woman, far below the replacement rate of 2.1. Yet when the right-wing government enacted policies to increase it, it was attacked as "xenophobic" [1] and that it "reeks of the 1930s" [2].
It is part of a trend of delegitimizing any kind of favoritism of a country toward its own people.
[1] https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1095495521748353024
[2] https://www.thelocal.se/20190216/hungary-family-plan-reeks-o...
Is this true in most European countries? Because in Latin America, the Left wants to protect workers jobs and local industries.
I'm confused because in many parts of the world, the US in particular and I guess (some of) Europe, "the Left" seems to mean "liberal democrats". Over here, on the contrary, the Left is all about workers rights. We do have some social democrats masquerading as progressives, of course, but we understand that's not "the Left".