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Originally Posted by Mancie
I disagree... there will always be times that voters swing and sway... in the depression of the early 30's grass roots voters where swaying towards the far left with communism...
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You're half right. At that particularly unstable time in twentieth century, people were attracted to either end of political extremist spectrum, it wasn't just to the left. There was also a fully functioning, and relatively well supported fascist movement in the UK, under Mosely. Just as there was a flourishing British Communist movement, many of whom were dedicated enough to go off and fight in the Spanish Civil War.
It was even more precarious in the post Treaty of Versailles Germany. The country could just have easily fallen to the political right, as to Nazism.
When people feel frightened, extremists are always there offering what seem like sensible answers, and that is my fear about today's main stream parties, who are not giving the general public enough reassurance about things like immigration, and integration, etc.