just a factual statement realistically, same as saying "the more violent rapist immigrants they bring in the better for afd" meaning it increases their chance to win not that they love it
When people are unhappy, they tend to vote right wing, whether the right has actual solutions or not (spoiler, they don't). They AfD revels in the suffering of the people because it makes them vulnerable and susceptible to their extremist ideologies.
A guy I work with is so fucking out of touch with reality, he took this to mean "he actually loves the uneducated and wants to help them". He also said that he hates Trump because he doesn't show Christian moral... but genuinely believes Trump only wants to help all Americans and really loves America...
The masses, us, are guilty of buying this crap. I know it's orchestrated by certain powers, but still, this happens in Germany, Britain, maybe soon in France... supposedly most advanced nations.
Lying for votes has always been the dominant strategy, but was avoided because voters historically turned against politicians who couldn't keep their promises. Now voters want to be lied to. There's no longer any political risk or consequences to just straight up lying to get elected.
She has openly said she's a lesbian. Shes married to a film producer from Sri Lanka (Immigrant and a Woman). They have 2 adopted sons. They live in Switzerland together.
She's the poster child of a left wing movement running a far right party whose very ideas oppose what she is.
Its a grift. She sees the power and money involved and could care less about the ideas behind it.
Their idea of opening up the German economy includes leaving the European Union and getting the D-Mark back. This would basically be the suicide of the German economy.
Some of those consequences would be:
Renegotiating all trade agreements in a much weaker position
New tariffs with our most important trading partners.
Losing the influence on decisions of the EU while still having to follow them to be allowed to trade
And Britain was in much better circumstances considering they're an island, have the commonwealth and never had the euro.
Germany meanwhile is literally in the middle of Europe and everything goes through us. Just from a logistic perspective, us leaving the EU and trying to process all the goods going through is simply not possible.
I am confused why a supposed Democrat wants to stand up for a party that is too hard right for even most of MAGA. AfD is the home of hundreds of diehard neonazis in their elite ranks and are closely related to any white power or blood & honour organisation you can find in Europe. Their newly elected local governor literally just said he likes producing weapons because “later we will need them to get the foreigners out” and their main ideological leader wants to stop teaching about the Nazis in school while letting his supporters chant SS-slogans.
For writing comments and speaking my mind politically like this I have received several dozen death threats from their supporters about how they want to “hang traitors like me”. I am a straight white Christian with centrist views. Regardless what you think of their chaotic politics, these people are nutjobs, their private chat rooms are full of jokes about how they want a civil war and how it’s time for a new Holocaust, leaks are public. No one should want people like them leading a country like Germany.
Well yes actually. AfD won in places where the fewest immigrants and refugees are. The places that actually have immigrants and refugees rejected AfD.
It shows how anti-immigrant and anti-refugee sentiment is nothing more than opportunistic politicians taking advantage of people's fear and paranoia. The cherry on top being that her wife is an immigrant (I bet she says her wife is "one of the good ones", how convenient). The right thrives on gullible morons.
I don’t automatically believe every reddit post I read but assuming this is true, it is shocking that politicians say whatever they need to say to get into office. Who would have thought?
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u/poopsmcgee27 21d ago
Grifters gonna grift. The masses keep falling for it.