While there are no doubt Nazis in this party, its not a Nazi party, nor are the majority of its voters Nazis.
You see, I dont like them, in fact I dispise them. Problem for me - and many others - is we do not like the others, the left mainstream, any better. I dispise the left scum as much as I dispise the right scum. But the mainstream politicians have led us to where we are, and where we are is the desastrous result of 4 years of Schroeder (SPD), 16 years of Merkel (CDU), and 3 years traffic-light coalition (SPD, Greens, and a pseudoliberal vermiform appendix named FDP).
The damage these have accumulated over the past twenty years has destroyed Germany's hope to ever recover from its current fall. They have gambled away Germany's future, the future of the young.
Compared to that, the scenes of today from Thuringia are "peanuts".
I see no chance to reform the poltical system and the parties. They must be crushed, destroyed and replaced. The AfD currently seems to be the only sledge hammer avialable to get tis job done. Right because it is like it is, and is what it is. In a way I abuse them - as a wrecking ball. I certainly do not think a wrecking ball is intelligent. But it is hard and brutal. Its numb primitivity is its strength. Crash. Booom. Bang.
Mucking out the stable. Dont known what comes after that and whether that follow-on consequence would work for the better or worse. But I know that what we have now definitely is guaranteed to work out for the worst. So lets leave it behind at any cost. Better an unclear future that may work worse or better, than a guaranteed totally worst.
Again, I have no illusions about the AfD, they are not my heroes and I absolutely dispise them. I cannot stand any of their lead personnel at all. But they are the best enemy of my enemy, and so for the time being I absolutely refuse to stand in their way. I even hand them another sledge hammer if they break their own.
This might illustrate to you - and anyone else - how very very very much pissed by the situation in Germany - and in the EU - I am. Absolutely pissed like in "cannot be pissed any tiny quantity more". Else I would not tolerate such desperate attempts. Think of a wolf who stepped into a trap iron and bites his leg off to escape.
I think that a certain ammount of Americans voting for Trump do their reasoning for comparable cause (and causation). I often said I see Trump not as a cause, but a symptom. And I see the AfD also not as a cause, but a symptom. My attitude also is a symptom, because in a normal, a healthy situation I would never ever tolerate a political party, not to mention the AfD (or Trump). But we have reached desperate times.
Think of it as a last attempt of self-defence.
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Last edited by Skybird; 09-26-24 at 03:57 PM.
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