Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Why Europe’s Right-Wing is More Divided Than You Think" video.

  1. The real problem for them is that moderate parties are really successful because there policies are moderated, far left or far right are less likely to get along with each other because there policies can go to the extream in many areas, making it difficult to work with each other. Then on top of that, you've got many of them that are moderating to appeal to more voters, and it's probably why throughout history, far left and far right parties rarely do that well long term, and usually when they do well, it's because the mainstream parties are messing up so the extream parties take advantage of the anger in voters. The reason why so many parties that are seen as far left or far right are toning down many of their policies, it's because they know that if they want to appeal to voters long term, they need to tone there policies down to have any chance of winning elections time after, otherwise, they have this chance of power, mess things up a lot with there extream policies and voters are unlikely to vote them back in, some extream parties get that, others don't, that will make it difficult for them to work with each other unless the population at large becomes radicalised, which if that were to happen, we've got a lot more problems to worry about and basically, as long as the population at large is mostly moderated, the far left and far right are not really much of a threat, yes they can have the odd victories, and yes they can rule on fear, but it's hard for them to succeed when the population isn't on the same wavelength as them.
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