Well done Saxony… now we have a russian backed right-extremist party with power…
Saxony-Anhalt
Anyone here still thinks there’s a chance that EU will not go through some anti-immigration phase in the near future?
Anti-immigration? No. Right wing parties don’t want less immigrants, they want immigrants to be disposable labour. They want corporations to be able to easily dispose of workers who organise.
Isn’t US severely damaging their farming and industry by deporting thousands and thousands of immigrants?
Yup. The real question is the only side effect of it higher produce prices? It seems the wealthy elite have decided to peasants don’t really matter anymore and who gives a fuck with the cost to survive there’s too many of them anyway. /s
€100 says Putler and billionnaires are involved in tricking labourers to impoverish themselves.
No one will bet against you. Russias hybrid war rallied against all other parties in bright daylight.
Well Elon definitely is, he keeps joining their rallies over video call to show his support and cheer them on.
The minimum information about the BSW while it would be the most relevant. After being treated badly by all other parties, e.g. no recount in the federal election to verify their narrow 5% miss, the other parties rely on them to form a government. Do they support it or will there be new elections?
Also no word about the narrowness of a potential disaster. Without the 5% for the BSW, the AfD was only lacking one seat for a majority. There was the risk of one CDU member changing sides to make an AfD government possible.
That is why the first Germans went into space today.
Oh no
I know this is a bit of a spicy take and I hope it doesn’t age like milk, but this may not be the worst thing for Germany long-term. Far-right populist parties often do a bad job once they get into power. If they screw up running Saxony-Anhalt over the next three years it may put voters off voting for them in the next federal election.
Von Papen thought the same thing.
Orban governed for, what? 16 years? PiS in Poland won the last presidential elections and is on track to be back in power in couple of years. Modi has 70% approval rating. Meloni is still leading in polls. Milei won midterms a year ago. So… not sure if what you’re describing really happens that often.
Proportional system usually results in coalition government so the radicals are forced to mellow out. Keeping AfD out of coalition by firewall might do much more harm than good in the long run. This kind of result emboldens them to stay extremist.
History and research shows the opposite to be true. Coalition, talking, taking over their topics, anything legitimizing strengthens them. The only effective counter is a broad rejection across politics, society, including companies, religious institutions etc, and press.
This take is kinda shunned in leftist groups, because that’s what they said last time in Germany.
lol plenty of people said that in 2016 usa
here’s hoping this isn’t well organized
It’s very well organised unfortunately. Channel 5 YouTube channel did a decent video on this yesterday. Went and interviewed a bunch of people at an AfD rally in Saxony-Anhalt.
ugh
Unfortunately they are also good at scapegoating and distracting.
Literally the only possible ray of sunshine on this rainy day. And that maybe, after all this time, the fucking cdu gets the message that being afd lite will not help them get votes.
tldr that website sucks
what’s the result and the long term implications?
It literally explained all of that in the article.
I don’t understand what sucked about the website, found it perfectly usable myself. I did reject all cookies when it asked though, so maybe that helped.
the immediate WE WANT YOUR DATA for one
the fascists likely didn’t get a super majority, but might be in that state’s government as major coalition partner anyway.
long term: political disorder within germany’s inter-state federal politics, possible political firewall (“Brandmauer”) against an entire federal state, possible conflict with NATO over logistics, Germany “being busy with itself” etc…
Didn’t their main candidate rule out doing any coalition to build a government, i.e. government only if the AfD has the absolute majority?
so more chaos then
which is fascism stage 1 :(
Actually it’s stage 3/4 of 5.
- Fringe: just a couple people meeting in a bar
- Normalization: go out and do protests, interviews, etc. People hate your ideas still, but you just keep saying them until they’re normal.
- Mainstream: established parties get scared, start talking the radical positions to get voters back, thereby proving that the positions are actually fine! So why vote for the cheap copy then, if you can have the original?
- Power: win elections, start dismantling some Democratic institutions.
- Gleichschaltung: take over total power via manufactured coup etc. Then dismantle anything that’s left.
sorry i was being flippant, thank you fir the actual list
There’s Jewish Nazis aka Zionists, so why don’t the actual Nazis come back. I fucking hate this world.
