The whole world is currently talking about an especially important and recent event, which has just occurred in the US – the election of the next president. In this blog post I will cover that there are surprisingly only two parties as well as a shocking trend in people’s voting habits all over the world.

To begin with, it’s important to get a quick overview of the parties in the US. Surprisingly, there are only two of them and they are complete opposites of each other. One calls themselves the Republicans. They are absolutely ignoring climate change, want more people to carry weapons with them, don’t care about the health system and take delight in refusing to provide immigrants with the support and help they need. On the other hand, there are the Democrats. As already mentioned, both parties oppose each other. Therefore, the Democrats address the issue of climate change quite well, want people to own fewer guns and desire to expand the health system.

When comparing these parties to Austrian ones it becomes obvious which parties share similarities. For instance, the Republicans are similar to the Austrian FPÖ and the ÖVP, while the Democrats are more like the Austrian SPÖ and the Green party. Similarly to Austria, where the FPÖ unfortunately gained many votes, you can spot an increase of Republican-voters in the US too.

Shockingly to me, there appears to be a global trend that somehow leads more people to vote for conservative and right-wing parties instead of left ones in elections. It is possible to make out this trend almost everywhere: You can find it in France, Italy, Germany and many other countries. In my opinion that is something especially bad and I hope this problem will vanish as soon as possible.

I personally find this very shocking and cannot properly explain this phenomenon to me. If you know a possible reason why this might be happening or you want to share your thoughts on the recent US-election I would ask you to leave a comment.