AfD is the most popular party in Germany for the first time, with a record 26%

Just looking at the people around me (mostly colleagues, I'm not friends with this kind of people) it's no surprise, when just about anything triggers them to vote AfD. Some actual examples:

"We have a vegetarian day at the cafeteria now. Stupid Greens forcing me to not eat meat one day a week. I'm going to vote AfD next election."

"They built a new bicycle lane on my way to work. Now I'm forced to stick to the speed limit because of all the bicyclists on MY road blocking me. It's a straight street, I should be able to go 80 even though it's inner city. I've always been going 80 there! Stupid Greens, I'm going to vote AfD next election."

"Supplier X stopped issuing their bikini model calendar. Everything is forbidden nowadays! Noone ever cared for bikini model calenders, but the Greens want to forbid every little piece of fun. Stupid woke culture. I'm going to vote AfD."

And let's not forget that one boss who told me that my life-threatening nut allergy was woke nonsense, because back in his day "everybody just ate what's on the table and noone died, but nowadays everybody has to feel special by making up things they won't eat."

They just want to go back to 1950s culture, when gay people, trans people, allergies, ADHD, autism, veganism, climate change and anything other than straight white dudes and straight white housewives "didn't exist", because how dare the world be more complex than a Rosamunde Pilcher movie.

As a crimson lining, I hope the United State's decay will teach Germany to destroy the AfD and all other right wingers. They are a poison to civilization.

Both the US and Germany want to return to their fascist roots it seems

Decades of capitalist decay and anti-communist propaganda will do that.

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?

Why hasn't the German government shut them down? I thought they had anti-fascist laws on their books.

This is such a U.S. way of reporting things.

74% of people don't want to be part of AfD.

Is the proper response: Well shit.

It's similar in the UK currently. The UK's equivalent of AfD is Reform UK who are apparently the leading party in the polls (source):

Reform UK in front on 25%, Labour on 23% and the Conservatives on 20%, with the Lib Dems on 16% and Greens on 10%

Plus two percent, a difference of one percent to second place and an error margin of two point five percent. Congrats.

Besides that, I really start to hate these reports. Weekly updates on the Sonntagsfrage are utterly lacking substance, fearmongering (to left leaning people) and reassurance (to AfD voters). Everything we do not need.

And stil the state refuses to ban them, refuses to arrest and sentence their leaders.

It will be Weimar 2.0 with liberals being either too incompetent or too unwilling to stop fascism.

Fascism is not stopped at the podium or in parliament. It is stopped with bullets and bombs. The longer you wait the more bullets and bombs it will take and the more lives it will cost. We need a new, this time thorough, denazification.

*In an opinion poll

I mean lets not confuse an opinion poll with the truth. These things regularly get things a couple points off. In fact that’s the norm.

AfD is using fascist manipulation using propaganda (always putting immigrants and immigrant attacks in the spotlight) to gain power and discriminate immigrants even more, causing more retaliation which in turn makes people give the AfD even more power.

In a tolerant society we should not be tolerant of such intolerance.

In phone polls 4 years before the next election...

Dont get me wrong, this sucks, but its not what the germans actually voted for.

I read 50% of the men in Germany died in ww2 ….but yea cool Nazis what could go wrong.? Fuck around and find out I guess

Well well.. here we go again. I’m ready to give up my life.

I mean, why vote CDU if they are doing the same shit as AFD but are not as good at it?

Source: https://dkriesel.com/sonntagsfrage

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Germany should have actually denazified instead of the joke they did. Also should have reunited the two germanys instead of what happened which was basically a west German conquest of east Germany contributing greatly to its impoverershment.

Take care of the nazi problem before they take care of you. You already know how that works. Stop allowing them to broadcast nazi propaganda as if it was news.

Many of those aren't real votes but "protest" support. Very dumb imo. They're hoping its a wakeup to the other parties but it really just emboldens the afd.

Everybody in Germany. Please talk to family members that you don't talk to about how this is dangerous to you. I know I have these in my family that I should invest in instead of always talking to the closest ones. Also make sure to beat them with genuine questions that break open their confidence in the reasoning with the socratic way (epistemology)

1. What? Belief.
2. Why? Reason
3. How? Method for Proof

Or

1. Identify Persuasion
2. Question "What is it actually", definition --In between ask for scale 1-10 how confident into the topic are you and importance queries
3. Why do you believe that?
4. How could one determine whether this is really true? --In between the scale and importance queries
5. Best argument for and strongest argument against?
6. Reflect, i.e. repeat what has been said in your own words eighthly

It's not about being well versed in the topic of conversation But good questions

They just asked 1502 people by phone.

For what‘s worth it doesn‘t actually matter what potential voters would vote for each and every week when the next election is almost 4 years away. If anything, bold headlines like these only act as a self fulfilling prophecy and are blatant populism. Even a good government can‘t be super popular every single week and the sooner people realize that, the better for democracy. Though I won‘t hold my breath.

tja

We are fucked

Germany, you're supposed to be good guys this round.

Ah 💩, here we go again

Germany: well, okay, listen, it's not working out for America, and it didn't work out for us that one time, but they promised it'll be different for us. What's a few civil liberties and social safety nets if it means we get to extract slave labor from immigrants put immigrants in prison for life for the crime of existing?

Can someone explain how powerful a party can be in Germany with a plurality but without a majority?

Ha! Suck it Germany! America isn't the only shitty fascist country now.

What does Bundesreg under Green and SPD mean? Or asked differently... Why doesn't FDP have that text?

Surprising nobody.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody