• ZigguratEnglish
    1087·
    20 days 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

    • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
      81·
      20 days 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.

    • Aielman15@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      20 days ago

      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.

      • Bertuccio@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        20 days ago

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

        • Aielman15@lemmy.worldEnglish
          19·
          20 days ago

          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.

          • Troubleinmind@lemmy.wtfEnglish
            4·
            19 days ago

            It’s not just you, fascism sympathizers are on the rise everywhere 😕 How quickly the world forgets its own history.

    • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
      24·
      20 days 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

      • ZigguratEnglish
        8·
        20 days ago

        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

        • federal reverse@feddit.orgOPMEnglish
          11·
          20 days ago

          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.

    • RunawayFixer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      19 days ago

      EPP is centrist, not far right, and they work together with greens + socialists + liberals. The national parties that are members of the EPP, that I know, are the old christian democrat parties and in terms of the USA Overton window, they would be to the left of USA democratic party. The far right only has about a quarter of MEPs.

      "Combined, the three political groups on the right have 187 MEPs, just over a quarter of the total, but they are viewed as unlikely to form a coherent and united bloc. Following the election, leaders of the EPP, S&D and Renew Europe groups stressed their commitment to working together as a pro-EU “democratic alliance”. The S&D and Renew Europe, together with the Greens/EFA, also stressed that they rejected cooperation with groups on the right, including the ECR. "

      https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10068/

    • F04118F@feddit.nlEnglish
      9·
      20 days ago

      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.

      • ZigguratEnglish
        91·
        20 days ago

        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 ?

        • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
          5·
          20 days ago

          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.

    • federal reverse@feddit.orgOPMEnglish
      8·
      20 days ago

      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.

      • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
        5·
        20 days ago

        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.

        • MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
          6·
          20 days ago

          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.

        • federal reverse@feddit.orgOPMEnglish
          1·
          20 days ago

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

      • RunawayFixer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        19 days ago

        The parties that I know in the EPP (Belgian and dutch) are definitely to the left of the USA democrats, which isn’t very hard. On the national level, member parties of EPP will work and have worked together with their s&d counterparts in many countries. And in the eu parliament, s&d, renew and EPP have indeed worked together for many years.

        So yeah, they definitely would not be in Trump’s camp. I don’t get how one can claim that EPP is far right.

  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    391·
    20 days ago

    Surprised and disappointed by Slovakia, Slovenia, Moldova and Bulgaria.

    Not surprised but disappointed by Serbia, Hungary, and Russia.

    • Acters@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      19 days ago

      I’m confused are you asking America to be invaded or for Europe to be invaded? I can tell people here wanted Kamala to win, but I saw my state didn’t even matter for making a difference. So I knew what the outcome was going to be as I heard a lot of people say Trump will make America great, and that was so annoying. 🫤

    • drathvedro@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      19 days ago

      We don’t get to vote over here, unfortunately. There’s this whole spectacle of ballot casting, but there is no vote counting. Even if there was, there’s nobody left to watch over them as every opposition party member is either in jail or exiled.

      But even if there were fair elections, I believe most of the support from Russians in a 2016 election was more of a “haha, watch the US destroy itself by electing an imbecile”, rather than actually believing what Trump’s had to say. So… probably not.

  • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    20 days 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.

    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgEnglish
      9·
      19 days ago

      I think this is called “Aposematism”:

      Aposematism is the advertising by an animal, whether terrestrial or marine, to potential predators that it is not worth attacking or eating.[1] This unprofitability may consist of any defenses which make the prey difficult to kill and eat, such as toxicity, venom, foul taste or smell, sharp spines, or aggressive nature. These advertising signals may take the form of conspicuous coloration, sounds, odours,[2] or other perceivable characteristics. Aposematic signals are beneficial for both predator and prey, since both avoid potential harm.

    • neidu3English
      5·
      19 days ago

      Considering the Transnistrian issue, I would’ve thought Moldova would vote blue.

  • _bac@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    20 days ago

    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.

    • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

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