Exit polls have the far-right AfD leading the Social Democrats in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Left Party ahead in Berlin. Merz referred to the outcome as “a disaster”. DW has more.
Exit polls have the far-right AfD leading the Social Democrats in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Left Party ahead in Berlin. Merz referred to the outcome as “a disaster”. DW has more.
AfD doesn’t seem to be winning MeckPom though. They might have plurality, but not majority, and it’s looking like the christian conservatives won’t make it in, so they’ll have no allies in a parliament with SPD, Lefts and Greens.
Not a pretty result, but not yet disastrous.
“Christian conservatives”. You mean pseudo-Christian. Jesus taught to take care of the poor and disadvantaged. Meanwhile CDU is cutting social security and making things worse for people who are already poor. And another part where CDU fails to uphold “christian” values is it was said “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter heaven.” and “Go sell everything you have and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven.”. Instead, the CDU does politics for the wealthy and makes things harder for the poor. So I’d prefer not to call the CDU christian.
christianity has made about a 180° degree flip since its inception. you can’t really argue that way. you have to look at what christianity said from 1500 to 1800, if you want a clearer historic picture.
Fully agreed on all points of substance.
I debated putting the “Christian” in quotes or using some epithet, but settled on calling them by the description they use for themselves in expectation that people here will see the parallel to their US idols, which are equally (un-)christian.
I’d personally call them Cunts Deceiving the Unwary, and their voterbase “Christians for Mammon” because I genuinely get the impression many people vote for them out of the dangerous combination of considering themselves Christian and being entirely uninformed about politics because it’s all so tedious and horrible what’s happening in the world and you can just pray and trust in God to lead you right. At least for those Christians I knew before I fled the faith and torched the ties, the idea of “wolves in sheep’s clothing” apparently didn’t extend to “wolves in shepherds’ clothing”.
I’ll confidently say that my blasphemous ass is still more Christian, because I attempt to be kind to people. Also, the fact that I’m not rich probably disqualifies me from their VIP lounge in hell anyway.
I’d also add another explicit point to your roster of accusation: Immigration. There’s obviously the story of the Good Samaritan making it clear that "your neighbour, whom you ought to love, includes foreigners. More scathingly, there’s Matthew 25:31-46, which mentions not just feeding and clothing the needy, but in v 43 also accuses: “I was a stranger and you did not invite me in”. I don’t know how much more explicit the bible could be about letting in and caring for strangers than Jesus telling people to go to hell because they didn’t.
Media will just keep spamming „Nazis are winning!!!“ until they do. We all know why…
But yeah red-red-green seemed to be the most likely according to all polls and it looks like they‘ll take it home. Headlines still claimed Nazis win bigly throughout and I don‘t expect them to stop any time soon sadly.
What Skave said: getting 30%+ is a significant gain in ground for them. If it was a CDU opposition, that would be less concerning, but the AfD will do what they can to obstruct RRG at getting anything done. I’m not gonna shed any tears over the CDU taking a giant L, but they would have been the lesser evil.
I’m just saying it’s not quite apocalyptic yet. The left(-ish) parties (compared to CDU and the Nazi reboot nobody needed) are still in the fight. The best hope now is for RRG to get their shit together, acknowledge the political implementations and actually improve things in ways people notice in time.
Politics shouldn’t be about short-term gains only, but right now, we need those to hamstring the populists’ “see, they’re not actually changing anything” rhetoric. If we can’t rely on the media to report fairly, the successes need to be so visible as to spread by word of mouth and social media.