[Skybird]

The AfD is about to sink SPD and CDU in upcoming elections in 3 eastern federal states, thats why they try to forbid it. It is set to become strongest party in at least one state, it is possible that 2024 will see the first AfD minister president , though unlikely. SPD could fly right out of the window in two parliaments. FDP is a zombie pretending to be alive.

Its not even that all AfD sympathisers indeed are sympathisers. They just have the nose full of this established radically left scum in Berlin and the way it destroys Germany and the middle class society from within. West- and Eastgermans are ticking quite differently, the Eastgermans are far more suspicous of the party swamp and its dubious ways, also of the state of democracy in general.

When you notice that those against whom you protest do not listen to your protests and continue to destroy the more traditional social order you want to live in, then you naturally start other forms to express your protest.

I am only surprised that it took so long. But then, Germans are raised and formed to be perfectly servile subjects.

The pendulum has swung for half a century to the extreme left, and beyond the border to severe self-damage, and intentionally beyond the border to self-denial. Now it has started to swing back. In later stages that will become as nasty as the left extreme policy making is. As nasty, only at the other side of the swing. Cause and effect. Push and counter push. Action and reaction. Its the established parties and the current government and the Merkel regime (and the EU agenda) that have brought up and have boosted and fertilized the AfD.