It isn’t full K, but it is the right direction:
If he wins, and his chances are good, Austria would have a president who is “decisively opposed to forced multiculturalism, globalization and mass immigration.” He has blasted his opponent, Green Party candidate Alexander Van der Bellen, as a “fascist, green dictator…”
If one looks geographically at the congratulatory messages the FPÖ candidate Hofer received following his triumph in the first round of presidential elections, a checkered pattern of new European nationalists emerges. Marine Le Pen from the French party Front National was first, followed by the Lega Nord of Matteo Salvini and Forza Italia, under the leadership of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. From the Netherlands, congratulations came from PVV head Geert Wilders and from Germany, plaudits were sent by the right-wing populists from the Alternative for Germany (AfD). The right wing in Europe is becoming organized and developing contacts across the Continent. The election on Sunday is far more than just a purely Austrian affair.
Across Europe, large, mainstream parties are losing power and influence. It has happened in Spain, France and Germany, but nowhere has the phenomenon been as dramatically visible as during the first round of the presidential elections in Austria. Hofer came in first place followed by Green candidate Van der Bellen. An independent candidate came in third place. Only then did the candidates of the SPÖ and ÖVP — the two parties that currently form the governing coalition — follow in fourth and fifth place. Together, they didn’t even managed 23 percent of the vote.
You can already see a big step toward K across Europe, but what it still lacks is resource scarcity – to the point where someone must do without. When dopamine is put in short enough supply by the economic collapse, then you will get the shifts in moral, reproductive, and rearing behaviors.
Still, it is surprising that this is hitting when resources are so high. Clearly importing violent savages is a powerful K-stimulus which is not good for leftism. Yet another ironic aspect of politics. Implementing r-ideals produces K-selection and K-ideals, just as implementing K-ideals will produce r-selection and r-ideals.
Next up – the collapse. And the left thinks it has things bad now.