Good call about not banning it because it’s too popular. Just ignore it and wait for people to come to their senses on logic.
It worked to stop Trump in the US.
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Last time the reason was they are too small to ban. Now they are too large?
Banning a small party would be politically damaging, banning a big party would be institutionally damaging.
You know what else is institutionally damaging?
Right-wing populist rule.
I guess the Nazis have arrived to downvote this fact.
Unfortunately, they will be in power and meddle with the courts before anything can happen.
Germany has so much red tape in its constitution due to fascism that it pretty much always has an excuse to ban whatever it wants, from the far right to Palestine protests. Question is, do they have the will to do it?
I wonder what people think voters whose grievances are represented by the AfD would do when the party is banned. Probably they’d have their minds changed and quietly vote status quo.
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They have no grievances. They believe they have grievances because they have been manipulated by the AfD to need an enemy which the AfD presents them on a platter. It’s literally the only thing far right politics boils down to so the people give them power which they can use to steal money.
They haven’t been manipulated by the AfD though. They’ve been manipulated by mainstream media.
In my country the far right has spent hundreds of thousands on social media advertising. And what do they advertise? Fight videos where colored people are the aggressor. But advertising about how they are going to increase the pension age, lower taxes for people with capital, and all such bullshit is only mentioned in small print when you go look for it. The mainstream media just follows whatever the hype is.
This stuff always scares me because yeah today you’re using it to control the worst elements of the right.
But in a few years they’ll be using this as precedent to suppress leftists.
The UK has been making a habit of this for a while now.
Banning wouldn’t be necessary if the established parties would actually do proper politics. Mainly, putting proper immigration policies in place. If we had controlled immigration policies in place, like in Denmark for example, the AfD never would have gotten as popular. But unfortunately most germans (parties and people) put u automatically into the far-right corner if u say that u see the uncontrolled mass immigration critically.
There is no uncontrolled mass immigration, you weird uninformed racist dolt. It’s a dogwhistle that rightoids use to prop up the masses and stir hate which gives them power they use to stir more hate.
So those literal millions of people who came to germany since 2015 don’t exist?
Ah, so we immediately dropping the “uncontroleld” pretension, and go to the “preserving the cleanliness of the race” territory. Yeah, over the last 10 years literal millions (around two of those millions or so) people immigrated to Germany. What’s your problem with that?
Maybe using far-right buzzwords has something to do with that…
Asylum != immigration. You’d need to change some fundamental laws how we treat people fleeing persecution and war. Mostly wars and conflicts started by the USA / Russia. Or increasingly fleeing climate change in the future.
Basically we’ll have to create consensus to not save people from certain death that come to our borders. Most people are with you on most cases of immigration. And climate change will lead to something like a billion refugees. So asylum will need to be limited.
Europe already turned asylum seekers back who end up in slave camps in Libya. Also a result of “intervention” that created much worse outcomes.
Long term we might have drones and robots and automated gun turrets to secure Europe’s borders. But honestly I suspect Europe will fall apart before that precisely because of the politics we’d need. It’s a hard sell without resorting to fascism.
What the current government is doing on immigration has been judged (officially, by a proper court) as unlawful. They keep doing it anyway, escalating further up the court levels. This is already very close to a constitutional crisis due to the executive blatantly disregarding the judiciary.
What else would you want them to do beyond that? Just give up on the rule of law in general and while we are at it rip up all applicable European contracts?
