The AfD has failed to win three run-offs for mayor in major cities in Germany’s west, despite other gains. Meanwhile, the German foreign minister is to visit Poland as tensions grow over Russia’s aggression.
The AfD has failed to win three run-offs for mayor in major cities in Germany’s west, despite other gains. Meanwhile, the German foreign minister is to visit Poland as tensions grow over Russia’s aggression.
A ton of AfD support is actually geographically split. Much of the support is in former East Germany, not in the west of the country. While their overall support has been rising steadily, this could have been a bellwether moment that showed that support rising to electoral success in the west. These results aren’t a mystery, they’re just not a simple as you would believe reading only headlines.
Idk are you from the west? Because I am and saying the nazis are mostly in the east is ridiculous. Or maybe you never went to Schützenfest and Jugendraum and didn’t notice how blatantly acceptable it is and was in the west to hate on immigrants and everyone else. Being Wessis always felt so good because we could tell ourself that the faschists only live in eastern Germany. For fucks sake. We got the nazis that survived Nüremberg to rebuilt the country, so if you for a second think that these people changed their convictions because a court told them that it’s wrong to genocide people and they were like ‘oh right if you say it like that it makes sense. Bummer’ then I don’t know what to tell you. There’s no geographical border that divides the dumbness, it’s just dumb wherever the sun touches.
I’m not saying that there is only support for AfD in east and none in the west, but there is definitely more support in the east: see recent state elections map.
No one supports fascism like communists.
That’s an idiotic take fully ignorant of both history and the present.
To be fair their industry was sold systematically way below value, so they were put at a disadvantage quite deliberately. The resulting discontent paired with bad education results in populists having easy game to prey on.
I suggest watching satirical series “Die Anstalt” on the “Treuhand” where they explain who stuffed their pockets and how it worked (Episode 47).
Just so you know it has nothing to do with communism and all to do with capitalism and corrupt politicians.