cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/70552672
But 44% of the vote for a party that is officially classified as “extreme right” is not normal. It is a black day for European democracy, even if it occurs in a small east German state.
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While Saxony-Anhalt (and Germany itself) may have dodged the worst outcome because the AfD won’t automatically fulfil its ambition of forming the first far-right state government in Germany since the Nazi era, there is no reason to assume it will be so lucky at the next election. Neither will other German states, such as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in two weeks’ time, or other countries, such as France next year. No country is immune from the far right and, perhaps even more worryingly, no far-right party or politician is too extreme for political success (as the US has shown). We must therefore update our analyses and strategies.
edit link removed because it is “highly unreliable”
“Democracy basically means: Government by the people, of the people, for the people… but the people are retarded.” ― Osho
Last summer around this same time I was having a conversation with a German fellow, and I mentioned Afd gaining support and he shrugged it off calling them a fringe movement that have no real support, nothing to be alarmed over.
Man, one year later and they are winning, crazy times.
AfD is winning just as Germany attempts to rebuild its armed forces. Will CDU create a death machine and promptly hand the keys over to neo-Nazis?
Gonna have to ask you to remove that wsws link and any info sourced from it since it is a highly biased and highly unreliable source.
This came to my attention because you reported a totally legit comment calling you out of the wsws link and you proceeded to use “low quality accusations” as a reason for the report. Don’t abuse reports hoping to silence people who criticize you.
What is problematic or biased about the quote I provided?
Why are you accusing me of abusing reports to silence people who criticize me? Saying I am “abuse reports” about a single report you don’t feel is valid doesn’t feel fair to me.
Sure I will remove the “highly unreliable source”.
I am accusing you of abusing the report system because your report was unreasonable and clearly had the intent to silence someone. This is not .ml where admins silence people over petty disagreements.
PS: The community ban wasn’t me.
Trying to paint “Moderate parties have moved to the right, thus disappointing voters so much with their right-wing politics, that those voters now feel the need to vote far-right instead” as some kind of sane decision will never be not comically stupid.
I find the title misleading. The AfD can suck a big one, but they only won the federal state election in Saxonia-Anhalt, with a population of 1.7 million against Germany’s 80+ million. It’s still very worrisome to me, and they won the state in a landslide, but “winning in Germany” hasn’t happened yet, thankfully.
I guess people who can not start normal life because of cost of living are so frustrated that they vote for them… Apartament prices are part of that I guess. Maybe lets support right-to-housing.eu as a solution for it…?
The ruling class always makes the same fatal mistake of believing people who condescendingly have been denied meaningful help for decades will act reactionally when provided the alternative vision and opportunity to burn it all down, damn the consequences.
I don’t know if it is irrational in a way though it usually ends up being a self immolating act for the desperate and poor, we are talking about human beings here, agency and free will are burning fires within us and given enough abuse that fire can be twisted into a rage that just wants everything to break around us in an enactment of a fantasy of eruptive “justice” coming to the people and systems that inflicted that suffering and denial of agency. When you corner an animal, instinct kicks in, we are no different.
This is why neoliberalism leads to a collapse into fascism, it locks society into a place where help is condescendingly denied continually while the narrative that neoliberalism is superior to conservatism (which is true) is used to beat any criticism from the left into submission.
