Got the data from reddit from here: https://r.nf/r/europe/comments/14xkofb/germany_with_a_result_of_22_rightwing_afd_id_has/
And the moral of the story? Never ever should left-leaning parties enter a coalition with neoliberals. Thank you, FDP, for constantly sabotaging the government and destroying public trust with these actions. And thank you, Friedrich Merz (current leader the conservative CDU opposition party), for being a fucking loser who was losing constantly against other conservative candidates before and now thinks the party should embrace American culture war. So far, it has only helped the AfD, but I’m sure the good old Friedrich has a solid plan.
but I’m sure the good old Friedrich has a solid plan.
As we all know that Friedrich Merz has zero morals he obviously has a solid plan to get to power: He still has 2 years to parrot far-right propaganda even more while gradually forgetting his pretended resistence against a CxU-AfD coalition.
In any other situation I would ask what the hell you guys are doing over there, but as it stands we have pretty much exactly the same situation here in Sweden.
Pretty scary development honestly. Europe really does not need a populist far-right resurgence right now.
Mostly Loosers from East Germany who are always complaining that they don’t get enough, DDR was much better and hate foreigners because “they take away” the money “owed” to them in social contributions. (They also don’t like them for any reason because they are racists) They also don’t consume normal media but prefer Russian propaganda Media instead. (Green evil, Gas Good) (Look it up, 30% of the unemployed in Germany vote AfD which hates poor people, it’s mindboggling)
Sounds like the solution is simple - just split up Germany again, haha.
Well only half-joking, it worked out great for Czechia and Slovakia. Inequality of the regions was one of the main reasons for the split, similarly as you describe it. And funnily enough, Slovakia is also heading in the far-right/populist direction.
Hmmm, so some kind of job guarantee would really help deradicalize those unemployed AfD supporters?
I dont think so, in Sonneberg unemployment was only 5% and there are also not many refugees. Still they vote for the AfD. It’s quite funny because the local companies can’t find enough people for their jobs, so they actually would need some foreigners they hate so much
Same here in Italy. We are ahead of the rest of Europe this time, due to having voted earlier last year. A word of warning: no matter how radical and extremist their claims are, once they take the seats in parliament they don’t change anything. Here they came to the paradox of abrogating some laws of the previous government and reintroduce the very same measure with a different name. Only rhetorics will change (and not entirely for the good, unfortunately).
Europe really does not need a populist far-right resurgence right now.
What could possibly go wrong?
Democracy is not a state but an ever-ongoing process that involves everyone.
When the demands on society become too great, whether economic or transformative, it becomes difficult. Then the overburdened begin to follow the simpler/simplified narratives.
One could now argue that one could learn from history, but in an individualistic (or segregated) society, it is at least to some extent in the nature of the overburdened to not manage this. If these people are not helped in time, things will get turbulent. (And, in a bitter irony, often vote against their own long-term interests).
Thus, the greater the stress to which a society is exposed, the greater needs to be the solidarity of the “strong” with the “weak”. Neoliberalism, however, pushes in the opposite direction.
That color switch got me sweating for a second!
Well it’s still scary enough.
I just hope that these ppl won’t go federal/national. We might have a similar problem now in The Netherlands, expecially with new elections coming in November, after the fall of Rutte.
The Farmers party (less right-winged then AFD imo), are locally very strong.
It appears, many ppl are just afraid of the cost of living, energy prices changes etc ; basically afraid they can’t live their normal lives. It’s becoming a perfect feeding ground for stupid ( extreme) rhetoric.
So let’s just keep our hopes up for some enlightened votes and politicians. But I’m wary.
This is terrifying
Still 7 % FDP ?! WHO ?!
The people voting for them firmly believing to totally become one of their rich clients soon™ (after whatever rediculous investment idea they heard on TikTok makes them rich…) weren’t known for their working brain cells before, so why do you expect them to smarten up suddenly?
