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    I giovani elettori di età compresa tra 18 e 24 anni nella Turingia tedesca hanno votato a stragrande maggioranza per l’estrema destra AfD

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    1. nocountryforcoldham on

      They overwhelmingly didn’t bother to vote at all

    2. kjmajo on

      I am neither German nor young but I heard that AFD and the right wing in Germany are very active on TikTok and other social media? Could anyone maybe confirm or elaborate on that? On YouTube I personally have that feeling, that for a long while, and maybe even still, that a lot of interests would inevitably lead to more and more right wing content.

    4. Siebenfresse on

      Even though it was state elections, the national politics played a big role in what party was voted for. And when the establishment is left, the young will vote right in protest and when not happy.

    6. WorldlinessRadiant77 on

      At least when I lived in Germany some years ago, the far right was the only one trying to court young voters at all.

    7. morphiusn on

      Bet it was influenced by tiktoks, shouldve get rid of it long time ago

    9. TheTanadu on

      History is going around in the circle, just remember to not involve Poland this time, please

    11. Naduhan_Sum on

      Not only far-right but also fanatically pro Putin and pro terror, which is even more dangerous.

    13. UncleObli on

      Why would a generation completely screwed by their elders, politically ignored by everyone and without much hope for their future vote for the far right? I’m shocked!

    15. Alpaca_lives_matter on

      When you dig a little deeper into the different reasons, migration plays a part, but isn’t the whole picture. Germany, just like many of its neighbours in Western Europe, is going through a very tough time. Between inflation and the lack of any potential betterment of individual circumstances, people are tired and fed up.

      Then comes migration. Now, immigration is clearly needed due to birth rates tumbling (a byproduct of the consumer society we’ve built). However, migration has happened rapidly, at relatively high numbers, and the people coming in are culturally very different. This has caused a divide and insane friction. We’re seeing it in France, Germany, the UK, and elsewhere.

      Spain, Denmark, Italy – they have already changed their approach to migration and even the left-wing is tackling it, because they’ve realized that local populations do not want to deal with increased numbers of very culturally and religiously different migrants who do not want to integrate.

      Germany has two options: continue to resist this trend alongside France and the UK, causing further unrest and huge issues, or actually face the challenge whilst also attempting to pivot the country away from heavy industry and reliance on Russian energy, towards tech and innovation.

      We do not know how this will end, but everyone talking about the return of Nazis and all that are just as bad as the right wingers throwing Nazi signs at rallies. This is the problem: nobody wants to think or try to understand what is happening here, instead it feels like 1/3rd of people are indoctrinated left wing “we need to save the world fuck rich people”, 1/3rd are “this is my country fuck migrants and migration give me my money”, and the other 1/3rd either don’t give a crap or are stuck in the middle trying to sort the misinformation from the real stuff.

      Europe needs to save itself, that is for sure – it needs to grow a backbone, make some hard decisions, and actually stand up to the bad people trying to cause irreparable damage to the EU.

    17. lianju22 on

      If the parents vote AFD and always complain about the other parties, is it any wonder that the children also vote AFD?

    19. Maeglin75 on

      On the positive side, still over 60% of the most pro AfD age group in the most pro AfD region of Germany didn’t vote for the AfD.

      Yes it’s bad, but we shouldn’t forget that the Nazis and their supporters are still a minority, even in their strongholds.

      As long as the democratic parties work together and isolate the far right, the danger should be controllable. It mostly depends on the CDU now. Do they value democracy, rule of law, human rights and the wellbeing of the country higher than near term, local power?

    20. CaptSpankey on

      What’s crazy is that almost 50% of young men between 18 and 24 voted for the AfD while “only” 30% of young women did.

    21. dsafee2332 on

      How much of their messaging is about economics? Are they libertarian? In Poland, far-right Konfederacja lures young voters by promising them becoming millionaires after we abolish taxes and health insurance contribution.

    22. e_blim on

      Something that people tend to forget these days is that nazis and fascists were both enthusiastically supported by the young. The slightly more intellectual fascists built their philosophical background on futurism, which was a movement exalting technology, speed and the kind of disruptive force generally associated with youth.

      While the demographics was very different back then, build this kind of brand loyalty in younger generations will sooner or later pay off. But this is something that the other party leaderships seem completely unable to grasp, and this is appalling.

    24. Timauris on

      The impression I have about German politics is that most parties, regardless of basic ideology, are really slow to react and adapt to processes happening in the real world, instead of that they would rather cling to decades old instincts and convictions, even when they are becoming completely outdated. Be it the FDP’s obsession with the schwarze null, the relationship of the Greens with nuclear energy, Sholz’s reluctance to give Ukraine long range missiles because he fears escalation etc. Maybe the incapacity to target young audiences trough innovative communication channels could be seen in the same manner.

    25. phil_the_hungarian on

      Every modern far-right party has the lesbian leader, her South Asian wife and the Jewish members.

    26. derp0815 on

      “You took our future, now we’re taking yours” or something.

    31. TheShire123 on

      How’s this a surprise with 5 years of low salary growth, crazy house prices and low economic growth that right wing is getting popular in parts of Europe..

      Europe ( as lovely as it is besides economy) is not expected to grow much for next few decades. So the current generation have to accept for low salary growth and all other things that happens with economies not growing. Not a pleasant situation but the reality. A 1.5% growth each year ( Western Europe is growing much slowly) means economy would double in 47 years. So for 1-2 generations, this (which looks too bad compared to previous generation) is likely the best in terms of lifestyle and money young people will see on average in their life. In $ terms, US and Europe had similar economy in 2008. Now US is 75% bigger than Europe in just 15 years and the gap is increasing. (Yes PPP and currency etc.) It is expected in another 10-15 years, US would be so far ahead that the Europe would be close to compare to mid salary countries like Mexico rather than US.

      Easiest is to blame on immigrants but this will happen regardless of immigrants. Issue is dire and structural. Will take a lot of sacrifice and aggressive policies to get out of this and compete with US, China (India in future) and last 20 years has shown Europe doesn’t have the will to get out of this. Only lot of work and hi tech innovation can bring back the growth engine.

      We would rather go for 4 day work week, part time work and for more holidays and less working hours. But okay with pension at 70-75 years, not afford house in our lives and salaries becoming so low that using all those 30 days of vacations to travel itself becomes an issue in future.

    32. ealker on

      Enbedding themselves into the young people’s psyche will have a long-lasting effect in the future, where a chunk of these people will become loyal to the party and cast their votes in a predictable manner, given the AfD doesn’t fuck up in some major way and lose respect.

    33. manwhorunlikebear on

      I wonder if the reason the young voters go for the far-right party is because they have daily contact with poorly integrated MENA people?
      I could imagine how older generations could be isolated from those people because they work in places where they are not present and hence will be blind sighted to potential social issues.

      Or maybe the young generation is influenced by SoMe somehow.

    34. Vip_year_doll_eye on

      Great effort by the Assholes fur Deutschland in their disinformation campaign.

    35. kaasbaas94 on

      Dutchman here. Something that i have noticed among people of this age group is how they start to consider themselfes anti-woke extremists and therefore claim to vote right wing.

      My only conclussion can be that all the wokeness everywhere is shooting itself in the foot. Because, some of their main complains are tv shows and videogames. They claim that these studios are following some kind of woke agenda. If this is true, then it seems that people are just not having it anymore.

    40. VerticalBird on

      Very similar statistics for Bulgaria’s far-right parties in the previous election.

    41. Sunscratch on

      Right wingers were able to find proper channel and content to affect this group. That’s all, no magic here.

    43. Dapper_Training2191 on

      Given the shitty salaries and ridiculous rent prices, what did you expect? They will vote “business as usual”?

    45. ukulelendirk on

      The dark side is strong with these ones in Eastern Germany! 🤯

    46. Sound_Saracen on

      I’m seeing a concerning amount of apologia for the AfD in this thread…

      Far right folks will say shit like facts over feelings but will vote for extremist political parties who entirely derive their support from fearmongering lmao.

      The migrant crisis is very real, it weighs a lot on the welfare state and society. That doesn’t mean voting for a party whose aims are completely destructive to the system is rational.

      The AfD are far right by any metric, even Meloni’s party by comparison looks more rational than a party whose deputy speaker was the descendant of the last chancellor of Fascist Germany.

      They’ve been recorded of talking about deporting even native Germans for their political beliefs. All this and folks will still deny the AfD of any ulterior motives, or are aware of them but are supportive.

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