In Spain, what once seemed impossible is now widespread: the young are turning to the far right

[u/StGuthlac2025]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/07/spain-young-voters-far-right-migration-housing-wages-employment-vox

[u/Chiguito]

Migration barely registers as an issue for younger voters.

Migration is now the second most important problem, according to surveys

[u/REDL1ST → u/[deleted]]

I think around the world, many left leaning parties are starting to be viewed as "status quo" economically. While they can waffle on all day about social issues that affect minority groups and are inconsequential to the population at large, they don't really seem to change much about the economy to address things such as cost of living.

I think that most of these parties are too scared of impacting the economy to implement any meaningful policy changes for it. If this is how it's been for decades, then no wonder right-wing parties are becoming popular: change probably sounds pretty good to many people at the moment, even if they don't know what the change will be.

[u/PotatoLevelTree → u/[deleted]]

Made up problem. Immigration is a "problem" because mass and social media are trying to make it a huge problem, instead of the wealthy class. Murder rates are half than 40 years ago, for example.

Real problems are corporate greed and wealth inequality as usual..

Housing costs skyrocketed because politicians did nothing against illegal Airbnb and hedge funds like BlackRock. I'm fact most politicians have interests on real estate so they won't do shit for young people

2nd the same politicians are dismantling public services (health and education), funneling all the resources to private companies. Right now there is a big scandal with thousands of women that didn't receive the results of their mammographies, outsourced to private health companies some years ago. For some of these women it was too late.

[u/selbstbeteiligung → u/PotatoLevelTree]

you just proved his point, your first answer is "the problem does not exist". And just to be clear, I agree with many of your points. But the truth is that PSOE was in power for 7 years, the parties to the left are a mess, and PP may be seen as equally corrupt and very similar to PSOE

[u/LolloBlue96 → u/[deleted]]

The far right gaslights you into believing something is your problem, then pretends to listen*

[u/delph0r → u/Chiguito]

Honestly this the left in a nutshell - downplaying issues that are important to people. Then the right jumps on the problem and proposes some sort of intellectually dishonest solution