Unpopular_opinions.exe

So theres a general dissatisfaction around Europe at the moment. But down to multiple different issues which vary in those angered but all the same are valid concerns (at least in the eyes of those who hold them).

Immigration
High Taxes
Untrustworthy Media (more of a global issue) and Media disenfranchisement

First issue

The first issue being immigration. Immigration is a very complex multifaceted issue. There is a wide range of reasons people vote for what are commonly called anti establishment anti immigration parties, and i think they are as follows:

Straight up racism, now the first group who vote for these parties are the straight up racists, i believe that this group is the smallest (greatly the smallest), as most people really don't care about your race, and have bigger issues, racism is usually a product of a bigger issue. but you do get people who are just racist.
Working Class - I'd say another probably one of the larger groups who vote for these parties are the working class, those who have a job but the job is a low skilled endeavour, such as drivers, assembly line workers and other jobs with a low skill qualification entry requirement. I believe they have the most genuine grudge as immigrants are increasing the pool these companies have to pick from lowering the wages (simple supply and demand) as well as immigrants often being willing to accept lower pay (especially those who come here by themselves with no family in their early 20s).
Another criteria which is not so much a group but a factor causing those who do not fall into one of these two criteria to vote are, the massive culture shift. Mass immigration like which the rich European countries have seen have caused a massive culture shock, with many of these cultures being very alien to their hosts and very different. (Such as those from Middle eastern countries. People from these countries tend to hold very different values and present these values on their surrounding. This itself isn't really the issue however. The issue is the massive amounts of immigrants from varying backgrounds who are coming to usually the major cities taking up allot of the time subsides social housing and purchasing and building their own communities creating ghettos or Mini Turkey mini Aleppo Mini Abuja etc.

I believe these issues and groups as well as some others are the key reasons for the rise in 'Far-Right parties' (don't like that term).

Second issue

Second issue is Taxes. Now this is a major issue, especially like in a country like France.

No body likes High taxes, and these is also a gigantic multifaceted issue which i am not qualified to speak about but am going to try wrap my head around anyway.

There is a combination of tax issues here, first is income tax and second is sales tax and other types of taxes. Increased taxation reduce the money individuals have and give more to the government to (hopefully) provided services to the public.

Income tax is a middle and upper income issue which doesn't (as much) affect the lower income as they get more than they give. This in itself can cause resentment, but i do not think this is the main issue.

The main problem i am seeing is from sales taxes, of which affect lower and middle income persons the hardest. These are the real issue.

But my thought on this is, your damned if you do, your damned if you don't. When it comes to fuel taxes, you have those who want to have fuel taxes to intensive using public transport getting more fuel efficient vehicles etc. and you have those who are saying what hold on there. Thats all well and good for yous big earners in the city but us here in the country and suburbs can't afford such high taxes, we're already paying massive sales taxes and sometimes upwards of 50% of our income to the government we can't afford more of these taxes.

Theres also the issue of, how do you go about reducing taxes? People want lower taxes, but God forbid a government suggest cutting services to pay for lowering these taxes.

So when it comes to that governments are stuck. (I'd love to here any ideas you guys have on this also).

Third issue

The Third issue is the media trustworthiness and disenfranchisement issue.

The media especially news media has become increasingly politicised and ideological (there is of course some exceptions, but increasingly this number is dwindling.

I believe that the 24 hour news cycle and the internet have had a serious affect on this. Mainly due to news channels being ran as businesses (obviously) and with the increasing number of them they have to attract traffic somehow, and whats the best way for that? Something crazy, be it a terrorist attack, shooting, war or an opinion article pushing an ideological point of view. This is becoming increasingly obvious, with it being so bad as to the fact that the same person could come away thinking of a story two completely different ways depending on what news source they read it/ hear it from.

This happens at all sides of the political spectrum, both left, right up down and everything in between.

Additionally to media un-trustworthiness is the media disenfranchisement. This is in my opinion because large media companies have their offices in large cities, of which these places are very left leaning, this ontop of the fact that the majority of journalists are left leaning causes a major media disenfranchisement. With most of the large media companies being left leaning. This in combination with the click orientated business model promotes ideological works about fact based non-biased reporting.

This as additional caused the rise of what im going to call 'New media' Reporting. Online blogs, websites and youtube channels. Which are often run by Right wing individuals.

These right wing (all be it there is left wing and the same applies) tend to be allot more extreme (I don't mean this in a malicious way, more so in holding farther left or right) opinions compared to those who are viewing. However people keep viewing these sources as people think 1. there more honest than the 'Main stream media' 2. believe that at least these guys aren't pretending to be non biased (thus being more trustworthy).

This can also be an issue, as these sources tend to be (at varying amounts) extreme. Which overtime is (i think) turning people more extreme and causing more tension through out Europe and the globe.

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Thanks for reading, i'd like to know what you guys think. What do you agree with (if any) and what do you think i am just completely off the ball with.

Also if you disagree i would very much so like to hear about it and link sources or articles so i can be better educated on the matter.