There’s a growing rift between Western millennials: Millennials living in America are excited about left-wing progressives like socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), while those living in heavily taxed and regulated nations in Europe are flocking to right-wing nationalists parties.
In the France’s regional elections last December, 35 percent of millennials voted for the right-wing Front National, a full eight points higher than the party polled nationally.
Similar results occurred in Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Poland, where the youth vote went heavy towards the far-right parties like the Freedom Party of Austria, The Danish People’s Party, Party for Freedom, and the Law and Justice Party.
Establishment figures on both sides of the Atlantic have been scratching their heads about these developments — American millennials are moving towards democratic socialism, at the same time their counterparts in Europe are shifting to nationalism.
Part of the reason is that many of the most identifiable figureheads in the European right-wing parties are young themselves: Party for Freedom’s Fleur Agema, National Front’s Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, Law and Justice’s Maks Kraczkowski, the True Finns’ Vesa-Matti Saarakkala, and the Swedish Democrats’ Jimmie Åkesson were all 30-years-old or younger when they were first elected to their nation’s legislature.
The key policy issues are the fight against multiculturalism, mass immigration, the European Union, and free trade.
This movement towards a more national identity over European federalism has been growing for years but has reached new heights due to the terrorist attacks in Paris and the crime wave by Syrian refugees.
European millennials face crippling unemployment, as high as 50 percent in Greece. They have also suffered from the series of crime waves committed by Muslims, like the rape of thousands of English girls by Pakistani men in Northern England — those attacks were not exposed by the media or politicians in that country for years because of the fear of being labeled a racist.
In 2012, when the crime started to build significantly, a French youth group named Generation Identity released a video announced their declaration of war against multiculturalism, mass immigration, globalism, the media, social justice warriors, economic stagnation, and foreign interventionism.
The Swedish Democrats youth also released a video in 2014 to their fellow millennials throughout Europe saying, “Europe belonged to them” and calling on the youth to rediscover their unique cultures, reject multiculturalism, the European Union, and mass immigration,
Watch the Swedish youth video:
