Democracy remains popular across the world, but faced with a global array of challenges from inequality to the climate crisis, young people are far less likely than their elders to believe it can deliver on what concerns them.

According to a major international survey of 30 countries published on Tuesday, 86% of respondents would prefer to live in a democratic state and only 20% believe authoritarian regimes are more capable of delivering “what citizens want”.

However, only 57% of respondents aged 18 to 35 felt democracy was preferable to any other form of government, against 71% of those over 56, and 42% of younger people said they were supportive of military rule, against just 20% of older respondents.

I wish I could say I was surprised. Here in Finland we had a parliamentary election earlier in the year and ended up with the most right-wing government we’ve ever had, with zero leftist or centrist parties in the government. One fresh minister had to quit his post due to being a neo-Nazi, and the extremist party whose ministerial post it currently is replaced him with a pedophile neo-Nazi (who won a vote of confidence, so apparently that’s not a problem to anybody but leftists.)

Almost half of the under-25’s voted for right-wing parties. The most popular one was an extremist right-wing party (multiple neo-Nazis, politicians who openly fantasize about eg. murdering gay people, the works), and 2nd most popular was the “fiscally conservative” party (who really aren’t much better than the extremists, and in many ways actually worse).

  • @iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee
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    I’m an American, and I vote for war. Don’t get me wrong though… I’m not talking about war as in paying tax for military machines to die for me/us their industries and benefits like the last 40 or so years. If it kills humanity whatever. Humanity is fucked.

    I’ve given up on the trashy spoon fed media/government lifestyle. I probably would have lived a fuller life with actual true chaos and freedom even if I got decapitated at age 20.

    I never made enough money to see the world and life as something special. And that’s on purpose by the systemic lifestyle of “modern” living.

    And while i lean more towards communist style ideology I’m not down for communism either. I think I’m not down for any authority whether it’s mob/democracy or communist leadership.

    I think my mindset comes from the understanding that humanity will never be united because we are just animals and ego promotes a false lifestyle/government. No system could ever unite humanity. Nothing ever will unify humanity. We’re basically rabid animals and even if all the good people in this world combined it wouldn’t matter because good is subjective and a false ideology/ego.

    There will never be true right or true wrong, just assholes that think they’re more important and deserve more than you.

    • interolivaryOP
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      Yeah I fully believe we as a species deserve what’s coming in the near future with climate change and all the instability and chaos it’ll bring.

      Humans are by and large fucking terrible.