• Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOP
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    16 days ago

    Germans literally have so many choices of political parties that they can actually elect, why do they have to go for the worst one AfD?

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      16 days ago

      its a few factors in play, one is the normalization of far-right policies by the other big parties (SPD, Greens, Union) and their inability to fix the damage caused by the financial crisis of 2008, the rise of anti-migrant beliefs in the german working class, and a few others

      i think this video explains well the rise of the AfD in germany, at this point its only a matter of time until one or more parties decide to make a coalition with the AfD

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        16 days ago

        nd their inability to fix the damage caused by the financial crisis of 2008

        That’s absolutely not it. Germany went through the crisis of 2008 like a breeze. In 2015 during the refugee crisis, Merkel decided to open our borders to all of the refugees. Before that, the AfD had below 10% of the voters on their side. But a huge chunk of the population did not agree to Merkel’s refugee policies. That’s when the AfD took off. And now we can’t get rif of them 😒

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          16 days ago

          So AfD took off because Germans are largely racist, great look

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            If you ask the AfD-Fanboys, most are probably going to say that they are not racist, that there are just too many refugees in the country and the other parties aren’t doing anything about it. The AfD, meanwhile, is blaming all og the problems on the “left parties” and illegal immigrants. But yes, in my opinion, if you vote for the AfD, you are racist to a degree at least.

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      16 days ago

      It’s mostly East Germany. Communism’s fuckups in that area are still causing suffering today. I suppose West can be blamed for failing to integrate the east properly.

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        16 days ago

        Unfortunately, that’s not the only reason. We have 16 Bundesländer (states). 5 of them are in the East. But they have hardly more inhabitants than Bavaria. So a lot of us in the “Real Germany” (the western states) are voting those AHs too.