Posted on 02/23/2025 4:38:53 PM PST by DallasBiff
The far-right populist AfD has emerged as the second strongest political force in Germany's election. Despite its success — and support from Elon Musk and JD Vance — it has no chance of participating in government.
It is a historic result for the Alternative for Germany party (AfD): just twelve years after the party was founded, it has become the second largest political force in Germany. With around 20% of the vote, it almost doubled its result from the last general election in 2021. In eastern Germany, it has even become the strongest political force.
On election night, the AfD lead candidate Alice Weidel stressed again that her party is willing to enter into a coalition with the victorious center-right bloc of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU).
At the same time, she lashed out at the CDU/CSU's leader and the likely next Chancellor Friedrich Merz. In reference to his promise some years ago to halve the AfD's vote share, Weidel told her supporters: "They wanted to halve us, but the opposite has happened!"
The AfD had managed to shape political discourse during the election campaign in Germany with its anti-immigration rhetoric, calling for Germany's borders to be closed to refugees and asylum seekers.
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Germany was finished regardless of how the vote went. It’s too late.
It is too late for the pebbles to vote. The avalanche has already started.
Machine or paper ballots?
Actually, they’re right. AfD would have to win an outright majority for them to govern as all the other parties have pledged never to work with them in a coalition government. Until and unless they can do that (and all the other parties are working very hard to ensure that never happens) they will never get a chance to make changes - literally all the other parties are openly colluding against them.
The German people being who they are... it is going to have to get horrifically worse (and it is already bad there) in order for them to vote majority AfD, at which time it will already be far too late to turn the ship of state around.
Took a road trip through Germany last year, and it was depressing to see Muslims everywhere I went. Half the time I felt like I was in the Middle East. Sadly, the same was also true in Belgium, Netherlands and France. Cultural suicide.
Germany:
Goodbye!
It’s not the American system.
80 percent is plenty to rule with no input from the 20 percent.
Unless a LOT of those other groups are on the right, and I doubt it.
Center is better than left, though...not a lot, but better.
Germany elected a Merkel. The AFD is mostly east Germany. They may think about becoming East Germany again.
In every article, tweet, news program, you will see them use the words "far right" right next to AfD.
They will use the exact same strategy in the upcoming UK election with "far right" Reform party.
It may not work anymore in America. But this particular strategy used by Legacy Media remains extremely effective in Europe.
If anyone is gaining any sort of traction (like Tommy Robinson), they'll just lock him up.
Problem's solved.
The CDU/CSU received 28.5% and the AfD received 20.8%. If the AfD doubled their percentage from the last election and things keep going in Germany as they have so far, the AfD will meet or more likely exceed the CDU/CSU percentage in the next one.
Germans are hardcore Communists.
it has no chance of participating in government.
At this point does it matter they are hell bent of their agenda like the UK in suppressing free speech locking up their own citizenry for saying anything about the invader Muslims that are killing them and continuing thier journey down the toilet
I actually read that in Kosh’s voice.
Europe has been importing the Muslim third world since the 1950s as cheap labor to re-build it after all the destruction of WW2. They were supposed to go back, but that never happened.
I live in an old mill town (USA). When I was a kid I used to see Polish babushka* ladies everywhere. Slovaks, Czechs, and Hungarians too.
Those old folks are all gone now. Instead I’m seeing young Muslim families. Not many so far. But it’s happening.
A clash of civilizations is coming. No doubt about it.
The only question is will it be wolf vs. wolf, or wolf vs. rabbit.
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* That’s woman’s headscarf. It’s tied under the chin.
Using Google to search that site shows their “far-left” bias.
site:dw.com “far-right” = About 70,400 results
site:dw.com “far-left” = About 2,080 results
It’s backwards. The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles too vote.
The new coalition to be formed, presumably led by CDU/CSU, will be shackled with problems stemming from the incorporation of other parties to form a majority which means that the new governing coalition will be plagued with anomalies much like the old governing coalition that failed because it could not ultimately solve these problems.
The two major problems that that plagued the so-called "traffic light" coalition, energy and immigration, are the two major problems that currently afflict Germany. If cheap energy is not restored to Germany, the German industrial powerhouse will fail. If immigration is not curbed, the AFD will ultimately prevail in the next election.
AFD has presented clear, unambiguous policy to shut down immigration and to restore energy to Germany. The "traffic light" coalition could not do so because the greens could not ultimately compromise on energy nor could any of these parties muster real enthusiasm to curb immigration.
So for the foreseeable future the AFD will be in a favorable position outside the administration to criticize at will and bear no responsibility for the continuing economic malaise that is expected to continue.
But that does not mean that Germany is "finished." It has one white Knight who might ride to the rescue, Donald Trump. I believe his plan for Ukraine is motivated to restore relations with Russia and not incidentally also to restore the flow of cheap gas to Germany. If the new/old governing coalition can come to terms respecting the dismantling of much of the unfair protectionist policies favoring German industry, trade with the United States might become robust.
Trump would like to negotiate with individual European states rather than with the EU as a whole. It will be seen whether he can effectuate the very things the AFD wants even though the AFD will be out of office: the destruction of the EU and the euro.
If these things are accomplished, the AFD might ironically find itself the victim of Trump's success.
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