There's growing concern that German society is becoming increasingly polarized. The question of how to treat the AfD party threatens to further deepen the divide.
While this is an aspect we should not forget that the AfD is homegrown in Germany exploiting long held racist and bigoted views that were kept quiet but present in society. It is well known that rising inequality makes it easy for fascists to gain power and the growing inequality in Germany hasn’t been seriously addressed by any governing coalition in many years.
Also many of the AfD elites have a history in Germanys neonazi scene of the 90s and early 00s. The neoliberal and neofeudal side (Weidel, von Storch and the like) have been deeply embedded in their respective circles.
Finally we saw the German media failing again and again to find a proper way of dealing with the AfD without working for them. Instead over the past year they disproportionately followed AfD topics like migration and now even started making far right populist propaganda programs in public broadcast television.
Foreign desinformation campaigns are the fertilizer to boost growth, but the soil, water and light are present in Germany and so far the supposed democrats did a terrible job at keeping them from the growing fascist threat.
While this is an aspect we should not forget that the AfD is homegrown in Germany exploiting long held racist and bigoted views that were kept quiet but present in society. It is well known that rising inequality makes it easy for fascists to gain power and the growing inequality in Germany hasn’t been seriously addressed by any governing coalition in many years.
Also many of the AfD elites have a history in Germanys neonazi scene of the 90s and early 00s. The neoliberal and neofeudal side (Weidel, von Storch and the like) have been deeply embedded in their respective circles.
Finally we saw the German media failing again and again to find a proper way of dealing with the AfD without working for them. Instead over the past year they disproportionately followed AfD topics like migration and now even started making far right populist propaganda programs in public broadcast television.
Foreign desinformation campaigns are the fertilizer to boost growth, but the soil, water and light are present in Germany and so far the supposed democrats did a terrible job at keeping them from the growing fascist threat.