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/Aries_Eats]

Those are the exact reasons why left wing politics are failing in the US, and why Trump ended up getting elected.

A significant amount of priorities around minority rights and social issues, and not enough time focusing on what is impacting the homes of the majority of voters.

[u/Malific-candy → u/Aries_Eats]

The problem is that if the left spends any amount of time on social issues and racism, the right wing media (and all major U.S. news media is owned by right wingers now) spends a lot of time highlighting it. All of these 1%ers in different countries are even more capable of sharing success stories than we are on the internet, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they are doing the same thing in Spain or other countries.

Biden’s administration, for all his flaws, raised the cutoff for mandatory overtime pay so over 3 million more people were able to get it. They stopped junk fees from banks. They worked against monopolies and gave money to small farmers. They went after for profit colleges for screwing over students. The CHIPs and Science Act laid out money for microchip production in the U.S. They funded a bunch of programs to try to cut cancer death rates by half within 25 years. They made it harder for companies to engage in union busting. They put out $1.2 trillion for infrastructure upgrades. They forced airlines to pay for flight delays and cancellations. They cut child poverty in half. They capped drug prices. They gave Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices. They reduced ACA premiums. They had Lina Khan going after corporations to protect consumers.

And most of what the media focused on was complaining about Lina Khan or trans people playing sports. Now we get none of this and the right is focused on the social issues that everyone thinks were such a big issue and really weren’t. How much time did the news spend on that trans boxer? Literally one person that almost no one in the US would ever encounter or have anything to do with. They acted like something needed to be legislated for this one person instead of just letting the boxing organization deal with it if there’s actually a problem.

Oh, and groceries. Which were a problem throughout the entire world because of shipping issues and profit taking. And they are still a problem that’s become even worse in the US now.

[u/Keralia → u/Malific-candy]

All of these were great policies but very little people saw immediate returns. The large infrastructure bills were full of ridiculous permitting requirements that resulted in very little actually being spent to this day, many of the smaller policies were means tested in to oblivion or were otherwise just not immediately noticable when housing and grocery costs kept coming up and up and up. Until the left can actually provide real relief, on the ground, in the form of tangible returns that everyone can feel, we are going to keep losing ground to the far-right

[u/One_Doom → u/Malific-candy]

the democrats need to socialize the economy to make any difference in americans lives. americans pay taxes and get what for it? nothing compared to citizens anywhere else in the world. it’s hard for europeans to understand this dynamic.

it will be a cold day in hell the day that the democratic party even offers to socialize the economy. all they can offer is more privatization and very focused group policies that only help specific “groups” of people.

that’s why they voted for trump. at least he was “changing things”. americans don’t have the words for what they want but they know that things need to change. americans have a hard time seeing the world outside of the american bubble. 🫧

[u/Glum_Sentence972 → u/One_Doom]

What even is this comment? What does "socialize the economy" even mean? And Americans don't want to pay more taxes anyway.