Germany: Far-right AfD rises in the polls – DW – 04/03/2025
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A new opinion poll shows the likely future Chancellor Friedrich Merz from the conservative CDU party losing support even before his government is formed. The populist AfD is cashing in on the dissatisfaction.

Already there is a new trend, according to the latest Deutschlandtrend survey conducted for German broadcaster ARD. Pollster infratest dimap surveyed a representative sample of 1,334 eligible German voters from March 31 to April 2. The CDU/CSU slumped to 26%, their lowest level since October 2022, while the AfD reached a new high of 24%.

Seven out of ten respondents in the ARD Deutschlandtrend survey would like to see higher import tariffs on US products in retaliation

  • courageousstep@lemm.eeEnglish
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    16 days ago

    What is up, Germany? The far right??

    I can’t point fingers as an American, but like…Germany was so proud of having pushed out far-right extremism.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      16 days ago

      Part of it is the US turning far right. Everyone here uses american apps and social media. When those platforms turn far right, so do more people around the world. China’s TikTok is doing the exact same. We need domestic services quick or the entire world will turn into a fascist hellhole.

      • courageousstep@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        16 days ago

        I know a lot of the Nazis took inspiration from eugenics movements in the US, so I am sad to see that the same migration of ideas is still happening today.

        Morbid curiosity has me wondering what will happen if the entire world turns fascist, rather than just a couple of countries who get targeted by antifascist militaries from the rest of the world.

        • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          14 days ago

          Morbid curiosity has me wondering what will happen if the entire world turns fascist, rather than just a couple of countries who get targeted by antifascist militaries from the rest of the world.

          Morbid cynicism has me saying time will tell

    • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
      24·
      16 days ago

      It was a facade.

      In the 90s after Germany became one big Germany again other European countries felt threatened. So Germany created the image of “memory culture” to claim it has adorned for its past and is not a threat anymore. However this was only superficial. At the same time there were the “baseball-bat years” in which skinhead Neonazis roamed especially in eastern Germany and beat up, lynched and sometimes murdered foreigners and leftists.

      Fast forward to today. The mantra of “never again” as a result of the German history is only applied to a tokenized idea of Jewish life in the form of the state of Israel, rather than to apply it to all humans universally. So now that the token Israel is the source of grave crimes against humanity, instead of focusing on defending values, the token is defended. And anyone who is in the way of that token faces repressions, cynically targeting dissenting Jews in academia and culture disproportionately more than they are part of German society as a whole or part of academia and culture itself.

      Finally the “memory culture” is perverted into abolishing German responsibility for Antisemitism and Racism and expanding Racism again Muslim people, or people perceived as Muslims based on their skin color. It is perverted into shifting the blame and created means of repression that will greatly help the fascists to establish their rule once again.

      Germany has never pushed out far-right extremism. It put it onto a low burner, but it is deeply rooted in the German society and is blossoming again now, last but not least because people who proclaim to be progressive, such as the Greens and Social Democrats have deep seated right and reactionary convictions they now feel comfortable to show as the notion of “far”-right has been pushed further by the AfD fascists.