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Also American... It is disheartening to see others so quickly follow the mistakes they clearly see us make.
Just like most of the Mango Mussolini supporters here state side, I wonder how many are actually on board with the xenophobia, and how many are "Der Herde blind folgen".
Xenophobia is pretty much a human constant, though. That's why it's so easy to exploit.
I don’t think xenophobia is even the root cause. There are studies on extremism that reach back decades that show a consistent racist potential of the German population at about 10%. Personally I’m convinced that most of the percentage on top of that for the AfD is people that feel abandoned or even betrayed by our political system. And looking at how the distribution of wealth and income has developed since the 90s, they’re not wrong to feel that way. People voting the extreme right are mostly those left behind in these statistics.
And up until this point, every party except the democratic far left has completely ignored this or resorted to victim blaming, telling the poor to just work harder. So these people vote the only party that tells them they will burn the whole system down. Let’s see if the ruling parties use their last bullet to remedy this.
From what’s I understand about the political landscape in the US, the situation is not too different there.
Yeah, a lot of the problems that the AfD talk about are real (when they aren't making up numbers about immigrants). It just sucks that the voters are flocking to the xenophobes instead of parties that at least try to improve things, and I think the latent xenophobia in a large part of the population (way more than 10%, though they're not necessarily all as extreme as those 10%) is a big reason why. And propaganda, of course.
And the Sadest thing is. That like Trump the AFD wants more money for the rich and less for the poor. And most Voters are poor and dont't understand what they will do if they have the power.