I thought Germany had laws banning fascist parties?
Then it would have to disband its government.
One thing that tells me that most people don’t understand history is people’s defense of Germany not being antisemitic anymore is that “they support Israel”.
Like, the state that planned to ship off all Jews to Madagascar as one of their “solutions” to the “Jewish Question” is in support of a state that says it is “the only safe place for Jews?”
It’s an entire country that learned literally all the wrong lessons from its history. The AFD and even “liberal” parties in Germany are using “defense of Jews” (when they really mean defense of Israel) as a reason to oppress and otherize immigrants within their country. Literally the same “they don’t belong here” shit the Nazis did.
They absolutely will turn around and start oppressing Jews as “nongerman” as soon as they are done. Do not be fooled by these fascists lies. They will have zero concern for Antisemitism as soon as they are done using it to opress anyone that is critical of Israel.
The AFD defends Israel just long enough until it becomes acceptable to ask “well, why can’t we have our own Ethnostate like Israel does?”. This is absolutely where this is going. These people believe in a German Ethnostate. They are taking the steps that can to get there. And that begins with using immigrants as their target first. But it won’t end there. It never does.
It’s really unbelievable how stupid people are. I mean, if the inhuman ideology of these damn Nazis isn’t enough to put you off, then at least one look at the States should be enough to make you realize how incompetent and corrupt they are.
Something that comes out after guys like Trump have been in power is the voter regret. When asked why they voted for him they usually say the same 2 things: Either he was the only one talking about stuff the voter cared about, or they figured he would “shake things up” and/or change things. Note in that last part, the voter doesn’t really care what’s going to change or how it will happen, they’re just sick of the status quo.
All of this is to say that yes people are stupid, but that also holds true the politicians who’ve been pedaling the status quo, or minimal change, for generations and ignoring the growing anger of people who’ll eventually vote for craziness in the name of “change.”
There is usually also a general lack of education and awareness involved how much worse things can get.
