The nazis - which we can now officially call nazis, by the way, it can no longer be seen as hyperbole - do not even use words according to their meaning, and they won’t be particularly interested in your view of that matter.

I will read your full comment later. Just note that there is no attestation that they are nazis. So you don’t use the words according to their meaning.

This is becoming a pattern.

Yes I would.

You normalize fake quotes. Then the AfD can also make up quotes and claim that that represents foreigners.

You understand that it is bad when the AfD does it. Generalize that understanding. There can’t be exceptions for fighting the good fight. Everybody thinks they do.

Turkey protects an area within NATO territory whose strategic importance cannot be overstated, Merz told a joint press conference with Rutte.

His statement comes as the German government weighs whether to approve the delivery of fighter jets to Turkey. Turkey seeks to purchase 40 Eurofighter jets

His statement also comes as funny things happen in Türkiye. Strategic importance trumps everything. But which area within NATO territory is meant?

That’s good but besides my point. My issue is that you make up conversations.

You don’t have to convince me that the AfD is ineligible. I am with you. But you can’t claim that the AfD makes up causes and you make up your own.

Can we do top 1% so that I don’t feel included?

palatable to moderate voters while the bulk of the party is free to find their crowd among radicalized Covid protesters and neonazis.

So the covid protesters could have become the majority if they all had joined.

AfD was not first, remember the NPD. The NPD could have been equally popular or the AfD could have been equally ignored.

a massive worldwide conspiracy

Surprisingly I don’t know and I don’t care. The relevant part is that most problems have a solution which is ignored by those who should know better. Leaders don’t stand up but remain quiet.

There can be one, there can be many, there can be inertia or human shortcomings. The strange part is that people ignore issues as if they are indeed a conspiracy that they cannot change instead of pushing for change.

The AfD has received surprisingly much attention. Whatever the cause, that has to change or the successor party will become equally popular.

That said, there must be huge conspiracies. Cumex is one. There can be bigger ones, there are definitely many more smaller ones.

Is the elite really that stupid? How can they stay in power if they don’t think ahead? Where are the competent citizens who can take over?

Leading politicians have left the AfD because the party became too racist. This means that there was a development.

I read that Lucke calculated that he could use the extremists but keep them under control. A packt with the devil.

I think that Lucke’s plan could have worked if not only racists would have joined. Then conservative citizens would still control the party. Lucke losing the election was when the racists took over. The media made it impossible for regular citizens to join without losing face.

But this is a minor issue. It doesn’t matter if the AfD was racist from the start or turned racist. It’s the media that gave attention in both cases. Lucke’s new party and many other parties like Volt are ignored. Why did only the AfD receive the attention to become relevant?

I mistook OP’s comment, so the comment is a bit out of context.

However I think that’s the real reason why the government hasn’t forbidden the AfD. They want to prevent an opposition party that can be elected without repercussions.

I think I got it. ‘they’ means AfD in your comment while the article is about the politician suggesting that the CxU has to outgovern.

they are not interested in "out governing"anyone,

While the minister is saying

“I don’t believe that we can just ban the AfD. Instead we need to outgovern them.”

Sorry, I mistook your comment. I thought you were wondering why the CxU doesn’t take the AfD serious.

I am not obstuse but dense.

Well, you could say what you wanted to say in other words.

Last thing I can say is that feeding the dog references the financing of the AfD by Russia. Please tell me, how is this a problem if the AfD is not part of the government?

I understood that. But who cares about the neighbor feeding the dog if the dog is not there to protect?

But there were quite a number of social cuts and austerity measures that were fairly independent from the introduction of the Euro.

Look up target2 balance and the reaction of European countries to the special assets of the army.

The latter made people worry that interest rates could rise. In other words, German austerity was a tool to keep interest rates low for the countries in Europe.

Without the Euro, those austerity measures wouldn’t have happened.

The thing that really propelled Afd was that foreign people look different though

Everybody says this so it must be true. Why can’t there be real frustration with the established parties and the media motivated enough racists to join. By constantly saying that the AfD is racist, it became true, which disabled the threat of a real alternative.

The analogy with the dog doesn’t work. The AfD is not there to protect anything.

To the established parties, 40% is an acceptable risk if it prevents another new party from gaining 55% of the votes.

AfD was popularized by German media first. This is controlled opposition, created by the upper class. The Kremlin money and the racial politics were a poisoned gift because they will prevent them from ever gaining the absolute majority.

There is the threat of a new strong, successful party if the AfD is forbidden. Then a party without racist politics like Volt has space to grow.

Or British expats who didn’t register. Details are needed.

I haven’t found a good article that explains the early AfD position so I try to explain what I can remember.

The core should be that one currency for an inhomogenuous political entity is not a good idea. Usually, countries with weak industries can devalue their currency to offer their goods at competitive prices on the global market. This effectively means taking value from whomever owns money or receives wages that don’t adjust immediately.

If there is only one currency, and if that currency should remain stable, somebody else has to pay to adjust the prices. This can be seen in Germany after the unification when there were additional taxes in the west to finance the east.

Now the promise to the Germans was that the euro would be stable but also that they wouldn’t have to pay for it.

Economically, this doesn’t make sense, as scientists had pointed out, but they were ignored. (Thus the original AfD, to have an alternative to the established parties.)

Now the euro is quite stable. So who paid?

That’s why companies should willingly pay taxes, so that the state has resources to protect them.