A German far-right party wins its first state election and is very close in a second
A German far-right party wins its first state election and is very close in a second
A far-right party has won a state election for the first time in post-World War II Germany in the country’s east, while it looks set to finish a very close second to mainstream conservatives in a second vote.
Exactly one lifetime later. Those who remember are dead, those who aren't dead are soon going to have something to remember
In video games the evil rises every thousand years. In real life I guess it's 80.
Never thought the number would become the fantastical part.
Can’t protect democracy if the electorate is idiots.
The electorate has been systematically driven into the arms of of those people by both the political establishment and the media for decades.
The political establishment has contended itself with turning austerity into some kind of state religion and administrating the resulting shortages. Whenever this has lead to discontent, they were happy enough to jump on the far right's bandwagon and adopted their talking points because they deluded themselves that they could get back lost votes this way, rather than admitting that they had caused the problems themselves and even trying to rectify them. The media have happily been helping this process along by rarely questioning the never ending austerity at the expense of the middle and lower classes, while parroting every single far right talking point. Now we're reaping what has been sowed in the past decades.
That the far right makes disproportional gains in the East is no surprise, as the East, especially its rural regions, has been systematically sold out and run down even further than under the GDR since reunification.
I think there have been studies that showed people vote for the AfD because they are racists and fascists and not because they're somehow left behind or don't feel included. However, I do think racism is driven up by our current capitalist society where we have to fight for the scraps the billionaire class deems sufficient for us. This makes it much easier to hate every foreign person, because you feel there will be even less scraps left for you.
This is a really good take, imho closest to what I believe to be the truth as well.
To be fair, at least in Saxony, the ruling CDU has fostered a complacent, uninvolved but ultimately unhappy populace for 30 years, because they thought that would keep them in their seats forever.
Its ok we had bigass demonstrations a couple months ago against this shit. Olaf scholz even appeared at one. Everyone got a pat on the back by everyone else too, really fun time all around.
Ah shit here we go again
First time?
Unfortunately not