I need to watch a civil debate between both sides where these positions are discussed in the free market place of ideas before I can make a decision.
At the end of the day, fascists are human too and we both want what's best for the country, we just have different ways of getting there, and I think we can agree to disagree.
Yeah they're very good figures we just need to work on educating more and more people on the definition but the figures are excellent.
That 29% are basically going to form the immediate base of literally any new party effort once it finally goes into action. We are a third of the country.
Worryingly, young people in the U.K. (ages 18-34) also have the highest levels of support for communism (29 per cent) and fascism (19 per cent) among the four countries.
I do wonder how the question was posed. I don't think many people would openly admit to supporting fascism, but if you broke the question down into certain policy choices I feel like the number would skew higher. But that could just be me.
On the otherhand that would also mean less people are apprehensive about openly admitting they'd support communism, which would be cool.
I do wonder how the question was posed. I don't think many people would openly admit to supporting fascism, but if you broke the question down into certain policy choices I feel like the number would skew higher. But that could just be me.
You can do the same thing with communism. A lot of people like the policies, but shy away when you attach the word "communism" to it thanks to decades of indoctrination.
I'm more baffled by the 25% of Tory voters preferring communism. I want to meet these people who support the conservatives but don't actively want fascism??
I get the impression it was very different in the early 20th century, but I honestly think that fascists in the early 21st century on the whole probably don't even realize they're fascists and will reject being called one purely on reflex. You see this particularly well in a lot of terminally online nerd spaces where people will state and argue for cis white male patriarchal supremacist positions without a moments hesitation but will react with complete incredulity if you call them on it. Some of them are being self aware crypto-fasch sure...but a lot of them just deny it because they have just enough awareness and self preservation that they recognize that makes them a bad person and doing any work to be better is much harder than just pretending.
All this is to say: the people who voted in favor of fascism are the ones already excited to slap a swastika on. A huge number of the people who voted "Don't Know" are probably down to fuck with fascism...they would just rather call it liberalism.
I don't know how meaningful the question really is
It's funny how my first thought is to quip that it's meaningful in that fascists might consider rebranding as communists, then I remember that "national socialism" is an actual thing that arguably had some historical significance.