What is going on in Austrian politics?
Austrian Politics just lurched sharply to the right.
There are two frightening racist, right-wing, neo-fashist parties in Austria and people are voting for them in droves. Actually it's just one party but splintered into two factions under the leadership of two well-groomed, charisma-free young(ish) men. The appeal of the parties, (at least to racist dimwits), is that they promise to look after white people. They tell anyone who will listen that Austria is a hop, skip and a jump away from becoming a third world Muslim country and they promise to keep it nice and white and Christian.
They are absolutely brazen about this with election posters saying stuff like, “This time it is going to be about us Austrians!” and, “We don't want Vienna to become Istanbul!”
The scary thing about all this is that it is young people who seem to be voting for these neo-fashist 
parties. Young people who seem to be full of hate, fear and a well developed pack instinct.
Not all young people though, the ones who aren't voting for racist nut cases with over-gelled hair are actually voting Green. There is still a Green party in Austria and it is nice and lefty and groovy, saying unpopular things such as that Austria needs immigrants.
I think this means that young people aren't naturally racist nut cases, if you leave them alone to vote the way they fancy they'll probably vote for something fluffy, groovy and lefty like the Greens. There must be some malevolent influence at work bending their minds.
The blame for this usually gets left at the door of the gutter press, one of the world's most popular tabloid news papers plies its ugly trade here in Austria, it's bigger than the Sun and it is getting the blame for this terrible and frightening situation. The paper is owned by some million year old, old fart apparently.
A swing to the right with a horrible rich old man with too much influence on the media at it's core, sound familiar? I think we have a cut-price, tin-pot little Rupert Murdoch wannabe here.