AFD è il partito più popolare in Germania per la prima volta, con un record del 26%

This is something very surprising. I am working eith some people from Germany and they all think that current government does more for people outside from Germany instead for its own.

…and if you do the survey three weeks after Germany turns off the Twittersphere?

But surely, if the SPD, CDU and Greens just move more right again, just appease AfD voters more, if the media depicts more of their views, surely THIS time it’ll work to make them smaller, right? Right?

Blaming people who vote them is useless.

New government needs to act quickly to solve the root cause why they are getting those votes. That is the only way. But for the decades they are busy only serving the Upper class and destroying the middle class.

What could the cause of that be?

Which party is talking against illegal migration etc. just without the afd shit?

POC based in Germany. I’m concerned.

And they are still not in power, even if some AfD tool keeps reposting polls every second day. Polls mean nothing in modern times. They are propaganda by themselves by now. Voters behaviour changes by now on a daily basis and not long-term anymore like 50 years ago.

Europe has a tough decade ahead. The EU model is under attack from both sides, Russia and the US, and they will try to break it from without and within.

If we are to survive, the centre left and centre right must co-operate to deliver security and prosperity, and avoid the far right and left from tearing apart the progress and standards of the EU. Immigration, Economic development and security need to be addressed in a convincing and credible way.

https://global.espreso.tv/world-about-ukraine-trump-aims-to-establish-mini-trump-governments-across-europe-foreign-relations-expert

Populists gain popularity when times get hard, when life becomes difficult or at least when the overall quality of life drops.

When I came to Germany in 2015 I was able to rent 90sqm apartment with a garage in the Cologne altstadt for 850€ kalt. I was paying around 1€ for a litre of diesel and about 3-3,50 for a Doner.
That’s only 10 years ago – it’s not reminiscence of how great it was back in the 80s or 90s.
Today all these things (and many more) cost nearly twice as much. I earn pretty well so I wasn’t personally that affected but I can totally see how this must have had a huge negative impact on a large portion of society.
We will sadly see further rise of AfD support unless someone steps up and addresses the problem (for example) that bang average house which costed 250k few years back costs today 450-500k pricing out families out of the market.

I honestly don’t think that gathering in city centers with rainbow flags and screaming insults at the AfD is the solution that will change the trend.

History rhymes

After WWII, Germany was kind of like “well, let’s not do THAT again”

Now, it’s been so long that everyone has forgotten what that was like, so they’re ready to do that again

After they do, assuming it goes terribly wrong since it usually does, there will be another “well, let’s not do THAT again”

And the cycle repeats

Well that’s a tad concerning

I wouldn’t give too much thought about this, currently that is. The new government has still not be taken the reigns so this is a very momentary depiction. However, sadly I do believe this trend will continue because the proposed changes and vision for the coming 4 years can only be considered to be lackluster. It will most likely come down to the economy once again and there is still hope in regards to the big infrastructure package. But in all the other areas where interesting changes were possible: Rent reform (Swedish model), Mandatory Army or at least mandatory social year, Vision for europe, Ukraine and even migration the plans are 4 continuous years of „let’s play this one safe“ and sadly this is true especially for the SPD. This is not going to bring moderate right wing voters from the AFD back to the political discourse nor will it help to stop the migration from traditional voters of the middle to both extremes. And while many people seem to believe this, no demonizing the AFD will not help either as well, we saw the great results from that policy when the party went from 10 to 20% under the Ampel coalition. You don’t need to form coalitions with them but demonising them only creates an us vs them mentality within the AFD which will burn the remaining bridges to the unsatisfied voters the party still majorly consists of. Republicans aren’t 50% MAGA and AFD aren‘t 25% Nazis otherwise we never would have had CDU or SPD governments in the past and the NPD would have been a consistent party in our bundestag (which it wasn’t). Rather these are mostly deeply frustrated voters that the parties need to get back into the discourse and a lackluster unambitious strategy is not going to cut it.

This is the last shot and should have been the reason to not play it safe but instead take some major risks ourselves in order to change things in a meaningful way. As most people rarely ever read what is inside coalition contracts and incremental changes and their effects are hard to grasp, taking some meaningful and decisive actions in the current political landscape matters and wpuld have had a big effect. Even things such simple as the mandatory military service (even if we were to change it back in 4 years) would have signalled what we refer to as a Zeitenwende (change of times) and send a strong signal to frustrated voters that this administration is here to deliver on its promises…another wasted chance. Makes me question how many we have even left?

Verdammt Sohn.

The rise of AfD isn’t happening in a vacuum**.** It’s the product of leadership, economy and courage to act against propaganda and the immigration problem. People don’t turn to the far-right or far-left when they feel secure, heard, and hopeful. They turn when the center(left/right) abandons them to uncertainty, rising costs, social fragmentation, and job insecurity.

What’s worse, this political shift it’s being actively supported by Kremlin disinformation Tik Tok campaigns that cause people fear and distrust. And the longer we ignore this, the more damage it will do, not just in Germany, but across Europe.

People, let us not fall into panic-mode. The new government hasn’t even formed yet. The next elections will be in 4 years if the new coalition holds. If the polls look like this a week before the election then sure, let’s panic but for now it doesn’t say that much. Still frustrating to see though, that much is true.

And yet the german populace would claim they are better than America while simultaneously being just like them…. This is depressing

People look at how shit turned out for the US and still support AfD. Yes, you’re frustrated at the no action from other parties, but you don’t eat shit because you don’t like broccoli.

cancer.

This is not good.

These polls don’t represent the whole country. The votes do

Europe’s fucked by its own inhabitants, a shame.

Honest question – what’s the main reason AfD is increasing so much in Germany? Due to immigration?