Monday, 2 September 2024

The Alternative for Germany AfD

 

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'History buffs may recall that Thuringia is where the National Socialist German Workers' Party, aka NSDAP ['Nazis'], won their first state election in 1929.

The Alternative for Germany, often defined as "far-right" by most liberal media outlets, is on course for victory in Thuringia on 30.5%, according to projections Sunday for public broadcaster ARD; it represents the first victory for a German right-wing party on a state ballot since World War II.

What is just as shocking was the voter revulsion to Germany's ruling coalition: the three parties in Scholz’s ruling alliance — the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Free Democrats — between them got less than 15% in each of the two states Thuringia and Saxony.

Alice Weidel, a co-leader of the AfD, called the party’s performance “historic” and “a requiem” for the coalition in Berlin

Today's results are the latest bitter blow to German chancellor Scholz and his deeply unpopular government and highlight the risk it faces ahead of the next national election due in just over a year.'

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/german-ruling-coalition

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German Ruling Coalition Crushed In Regional Elections As AfD Scores First Victory For German Right-Wing Party Since WWII

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post 'The Alternative for Germany AfD':

Interesting that the one 'leftist' party that did do well in Sunday's German voting, is that led by Sahra Wagenknecht, her 'Bündnis' ('Alliance')

She has revived an 'old-fashioned' leftism, strongly socialist but in other aspects similar to the newer right:

- anti-migration
- culturally conservative, allowing traditional ideas to continue
- end wars & NATO entanglements, and make peace with Russia


this is a good pointer of 'horseshoe theory', the idea that far-enough left and far-enough right can become similar
in a mirror to the Wagenknecht party, the newer right often allows views quite 'socialist' on economics - 'nationalist-socialist' 


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  1. Ineresting that the one 'leftist' party that did do well in Sunday's German voting, is that led by Sahra Wagenknecht, her 'Bündnis' ('Alliance')

    She has revived an 'old-fashioned' leftism, strongly socialist but in other aspects similar to the newer right:
    - anti-migration
    - culturally conservative, allowing traditional ideas to continue
    - end wars & NATO entanglements, and make peace with Russia

    this is a good pointer of 'horseshoe theory', the idea that far-enough left and far-enough right can become similar
    in a mirror to the Wagenknecht party, the newer right often allows views quite 'socialist' on economics - 'nationalist-socialist'

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  7. Yes that is interesting I've noticed recently a disparaging in forums of Harold Wilson and the Labour government of the sixties and seventies it was pro nationally owned utilities and it was old fashioned liberal which would be considered conservative now but he kept UK out of the Vietnam war and brought in the open university although there was some economic problems and inflation and labour relations strife they weren't insurmountable we still made things and sold them abroad and Conservative and Labour governments had brought the national debt down from around 250% in 1945 to 39% in 1979 a true economic miracle until the Thatcherite fanatics destroyed our industry and pushed up the debt again by borrowing for the various election booms so by 2015 it was 1.5 trillion pounds this new government compared is no different to any Tory policy since 1975 when the Conservative party died and became the Irish word for outlaw Tory again

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