Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
by timeon on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:14PM
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This seems to me more like simplistic attempt to quickly find the reason.
In my poorer corner of Europe we vote for these "anti-system" parties for more than decade. One could argue that they actually are the system.
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I think it was already 20 years ago when a French sociologist whose name I have forgotten showed that the share of vote for the Front National clearly correlated with various negative economic variables, including "distance from the closest still functional railway station".
FYI I don't believe in "THE REASON" or "THE CAUSE" and I am wary of people who reduce complex issues such as voting patterns to one single root cause, but to deny that economic hardship is a significant factor in anti-system vote seems to be wishful thinking to me.
Show me a relatively rich neighbourhood or voting district (say, over 130 per cent of average national GDP) with above average anti-system vote share, anywhere in Europe. I don't think you will find it. People who have a lot to lose don't rock the boat.