Posted on 02/10/2025 7:19:06 AM PST by RandFan
"What my parents taught me is that they used to live in peace and calm, without having to have any fear in their own country," says 19-year-old Nick. "I would like to live in a country where I don't have to be afraid."
I meet him in a small bar on a street corner in the ex-mining town of Freiberg, Saxony – where he is playing darts.
It's a cold, foggy night in February with just over two weeks to go until Germany's national election.
Nick and his friend Dominic, who is 30, are backers or sympathetic to Alternative für Deutschland - a party that has been consistently polling second in Germany for more than a year and a half, as the far right here and elsewhere in Europe attracts an increasing number of young people, particularly men, into its orbit.
One particular reason why Nick – and many other young German men – say they are afraid is the number of attacks in Germany involving suspects who were asylum seekers – most recently, the fatal stabbing of a toddler and a man in a park in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg. Immigration is now Nick and Dominic's main concern, although they don't oppose it in all forms.
"The people who integrate, who learn, who study here, do their work - I have no problems with them," says Dominic, though he is critical of anyone he sees as taking advantage of the asylum system.
"But these days such statements are seen as hostile," says Dominic. "You're called a Nazi because of Germany's past."
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The trouble is, I need longer have any idea what “far right” means. I think it now even includes you.
^no longer know
Trump is dismantling the USA’s woke, govt-funded propaganda network.
These controls and govt bureaus are much stronger in EU
Because men want to be men. it really is that simple.
You’re right which is I start putting it in quotes here my little way of fighting back I hope others do the same
The reason for the increasing support of the Alternative Party is that the Christian Democrats went wobbly under Merkel.
Because that’s where all the good-looking women are. Sure beats the hairy barbarian females over on the left.
“Are these comments from ancestral Germans or people ‘of an immigration background?’”
Hitler is very popular in Muslim countries.
Well the Nazis were “far left”, so what’s the problem?
How often does BBC use the term ‘far left’?
true. far right on a spectrum needs to be defined...
with left being tyrannical dictatorship and far right being no government or anarchy, then what the left calls far right is no or less government... not the fascist people they think are there.
Just a guess.
Heard someone the other day proclaim, "men do not have problems, men ARE the problem". He made my slapping hand itch something horrible.
As the pendulum swings
She cited a stat that about half of some "right wing" influencer's readers are men. Given that the population is that, her sense of reporting and keen analysis is dull, dull and dull.
Alternative für Deutschland is not "extremist," led by a lesbian mother, and is merely upsetting the permanent "elite" political class in Germany. That means even the so-called "conservatives" of the CDU -- like Merkel was and remains -- are socialists of one sort or another. Layoffs are a fine indication that the current government policies are simply NOT working. And if one disagrees, then one is an "extremist."
Notice that Die Linke is never referred to as "far Left." And the current government still allows the tiny Marxist-Leninist Party ( MLPD ) to function, all the while talking at times about banning the AfD. Go figure..
If we use the language of the Left, ‘far right’ is anything to the right. ‘Moderate right’ does not exist; neither does ‘far left’.
If you are not ‘far left’ you are, by default, ‘far right’ - it’s about as meaningful as pissing in the wind.
Doesn’t the BBC means naughtZees?
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