Germany’s far right is winning over the young

It's being actively failed, it's a tactic to make the lies more effective

Germany has a stellar education system. Former East Germany skews very conservative because of overcompensation from the days of the imperialist-with-communist-dressings-DDR. You see the greatest support for the AfD in Thuringia and Saxony.

Liberal governments failed people by assuming that their status quo policies weren't alienating younger generations.

Social media. Especially TikTok

Sorry to play devil's advocate here, and I don't mind if I get a million downvotes, but the causes are well-understood and have been for a while. It's easy to dismiss AfD voters as a bunch of uneducated, disruptive rubes while failing to see how much employment in Eastern Germany is different from the one in the West. If you have a university degree, you'll up and leave first chance you get because wages are so much higher in the West. Else, you'll try to survive for decades on a string of one-year contract-low-skill-jobs somewhere out in the woods, as this is completely normalized in the East. The influence, even the very existence of labor unions and works committees is greatly diminished, too, compared to the West. Inflation and rent hikes hit just the same or worse, though. Towns and cities are getting depopulated big time, especially de-womanized. People in the East feel left behind by common-run big-city politicians, and AfD has been filling this gap very systematically and effectively.

It's because they are fucking stupid, you know, just like America and everywhere around the world were people vote against their best interests.

It's because the other political content that reaches them is boring, cringe or not existant. The other parties missed their chance and are thinking too much and trying to be too correct to catch up.

There may be a question for how to solve it, how to make other perspectives more attractive. And let's be real, who will foot the bill.

There is absolutely no doubt about the cause. It's the economy and good luck fixing that.

E.g. unemployment in "Sachsen" may be only 6.5%, but the average wage is 3000€ while the average for the republic over all is 4300€.

source 3000 in german

source 4300 in german

Here is a map about Rent, but don't let that fool you, the average price isn't actually below 5€, price in cities is 8.50€ You'll have to scroll a bit.

And average rent increase (2nd source) went from 5 to 6 and from 7 to 8. Which of course means that the absolute change was the same and the relative change was not. It doesn't matter if it's a "market correction". What people see is that their rent goes up, dis-proportionally so, while wages don't.

And of course, the meme that they can't articulate themselves is probably true. They don't see "the economy". They see the state of their cities, the living standards of their friends and family and then the government spending money on anything and everything else but them and their concerns. (climate, migrants, factories for companies in different federal states, weapons to fight foreign wars, etc.)

It's the same thing it's been for decades, people just assumed that white people in wealthy countries were immune to it.

Truth

The far right is the logical conclusion to the centrist rhetoric of the last few decades. It’s underpinned by the same ideas, whereas leftist ideology is fundamentally different. That’s to say, far right ideology isn’t more inviting only to young men, but also to everyone else who has internalised capitalist ideology.