• ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
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    57 minutes ago

    I think the map would look very different if the question was about local politicians who behave exactly like Trump or Harris but are not them.

  • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I’ve told my Bulgarian wife that Bulgaria is the Alabama of Europe. She’s admitted she can’t even be mad about it.

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    How Europe did actually vote

    Sauce Considering that Harris would more or less match renew Europe + Green + S&D, and that Trump would match the huge blue block at the right, I don’t think we’re doing much better than our American friends

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      6 hours ago

      I am pretty sure USA Democrates are closer to EU moderate right, they are not the left as we consider it in EU (except for Bernie Sanders maybe). So you should probably include those too.

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      Yeah, I’m Italian and I guarantee that we would not (unfortunately) vote for Harris. We have just elected our farthest-to-the-right government ever, and far right politicians have been popular here for a few decades, now.

      I really wish this graph was true, though. I need at least one reason to be proud of my country.

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        I was going to sarcastically ask “ever ever?” but suspect your statement might just be literally true…

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          To be fair, I was talking specifically about the Republican period (1946 and later). As much as I despise our current government, Meloni is not Mussolini yet. We’re slowly getting there, though, and I’ve never seen so many fascism sympathizers in the open (including in the government).

          Our scholastic system has failed us.

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      7 hours ago

      Also what would happen if we used the same election system where the winner is not decided by the total votes but how many districts they have the majority in and the right was manipulating the district borders in their favour

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        ow many districts they have the majority in and the right was manipulating the district borders in their favour

        To be fair, it’s already an issue in some European countries, may-be not as much as the US, but I’ve seen weird electoral district in France too

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          It’s only an issue in first-past-the-post elections though, of which continental Europe has far fewer. It’s not an issue in relative elections, such as for most parliaments in continental Europe.

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      I tend to agree with you but I think most EPP voters don’t. They consider themselves moderate and would probably prefer Harris over Trump.

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        Even though they claim to be moderate, pragmatic, anchored in real-life, what they vote and what they say, looks like pretty Trumpian, at least in the French political spectrum. Guess who voted against the gay-marriage ? Guess who voted against banning conversion therapies ? Guess who proposed to ban gender affirming care for minor ? Guess who wants stricter immigrations rules (without hiring civil servant and judge to apply the existing laws) Guess who goes into anti-woke rant (Actually, we can even extend to some centrists from renew, especially when crossing the belgian border , Guess who pass law to increase the weight of private insurance over public healthcare ?

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          Considering the number of high ranking older Republicans, who support Harris, that really does not mean that much. Seriously Dick Cheney supports Harris these days.

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      True. I suspect there are a bunch of effects that come into play because the question is basically, “What would go do if you could vote for another country?”

      E.g., I am not sure whether respondents voted for the candidate they would want to live under (which I think would be the more straightforward option) vs. which candidate they would want to see in another country (for the benefit of their home country).

      There’s also a strong element of how deep people are in the national/US propaganda cycle vs. hearing a few news items from a distance.

      Also … The image above is of course presupposing a per-country first-past-the-post voting system. Denmark only has 4% Trump voters (which I don’t think matches with their national voting behavior). However, e.g. Germany polled at 21% Trump voters which happens to line up almost perfectly with the percentage of far-right Afd voters.

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        I am quite sure that a lot of German CDU/CSU and FDP voters would also vote Trump over Harris, if these were the two only choices for the next federal election in Germany.

        What we mostly hear about them is Trump being the crazy criminal and Harris being the rational decent person. It is very detached from the policies and also we saw how the right and far right media in Germany wrecked havoc on the Green party in the 2021 pre-election time. So the way the media and people talk about them would be very different. Also we have Merz having a stable high polling at 30-35% with going the Trump route. Just that instead of eating peoples pets, immigrants are stealing dentist appointments. The CSU also copied a lot of the anti LGBT propaganda from the US Republicans, the Greens are the source of all economic problems…

        We are a lot closer to electing Trump-like people than this study suggests.

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          The problem with Trump is that he is loud and slightly crazy. That just does not work well with German post WW2 culture. If somebody calmer would run, that would be a different story though.

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          I mean, yeah — obviously the same people that get their news almost exclusively from “alternative” media.

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    As a Slovenian this is suprising to me. Everyone I know thinks Trump is an idiot. Maybe they think USA influence on the world will be negative in either case.

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      I saw the poll few days ago saying it’s 43:41 for Trump. Probably right wing SDS & co. I’m embarrassed.

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    7 hours ago

    Would Russians vote for Trump as president of Russia, though?