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[–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I think Portugal is probably more ideologically Leftist overall.

I assume their leftism is different than the "woke" liberalism inspired "leftism" of N. Europe/America?

[–]LGBTQIAIDSAnally Injected Death Sentence 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Maybe for some fringe Left groups. Not for the two main parties, who are clearly 'woke':

94% of PSD voters are against leaving the EU.

97% of PS (the more Leftist of the two) voters are against leaving the EU.

84% of PSD voters support homo marriage.

93% of PS voters support homo marriage.

73% of PSD voters believe homos should have equal adoption rights.

89% of PS voters believe homos should have equal adoption rights.

74% of PSD voters believed Syrian refugees were acceptable.

85% of PS voters believed Syrian refugees were acceptable.

75% of PSD voters identify as 'pro-choice'

88% of PS voters identify as 'pro-choice'

70% of PSD voters believe that trans athletes are acceptable

88% of PS voters believe that trans athletes are acceptable

I think it's obvious that if your two main parties are the 'Socialists' and 'Social Democrats', your country is screwed. Portugal is also the poorest country in Western Europe, so I'm sure there's a correlate here between being super-woke and being the closest thing to a third-world cesspool in Western Europe.

Given that the overwhelming majority of Portuguese cast votes for one of these two awful groups, it seems to me that the average Portuguese is super-woke. We just tend not to know about it because of language barriers and the fact that Portugal is insignificant. They're European, so they don't really have the right to ever be considered victims of anything or in need of aid. But the big cities like Lisbon are well and truly screwed on the ground.

Perhaps the only good thing about Portugal is that a small party called 'Chega' (similar to Spain's 'Vox') seems to be restoring a bit of the balance. However, they are clearly considered 'Far-Right' and 'extreme' within Portugal's extremely biased Overton Window.

[–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

correlate here between being super-woke and being the closest thing to a third-world cesspool

Usually the correlation is the opposite.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are you from Portugal?