Recent voter surveys say between 14% and 22% of under-30s would vote for the far-right Alternative for Germany party in the upcoming European elections. But who are these potential voters?
At an Alternative for Germany (AfD) European election campaign in Berlin, two of the far-right party’s candidates, Dr Alexander Sell and Mary Khan-Holoch, discussed national pride and how the AfD hopes to make Germans proud of being German again.
The crowd was largely made up of pensioners. However, there were also quite a few young people in the mix.
Khan-Holoch herself is 30 years old, and she did not hesitate in her answer to the question of what makes the AfD so attractive to first-time and young voters.
“Germans feel afraid of becoming strangers in their own country,” Khan-Holoch told Euronews.
The AFD is the biggest shitshow I’ve ever seen. We young People getting screwed over by the rich, and the AFD is telling us it’s the fault of Refugees. Why people eat this up? Because it’s much much much easier to punch down on someone then to punch up. And the funny thing is, the AFD is not even helping “their” people! They’re just helping the rich to get richer! I would bet Diamonds against acorns that the vast majority of AFD Voters haven’t even READ their election program! I’m ASHAMED that so many of my fellow citizens are voting for these lying and cheating disgrace of a political Party which is willing to sell them to Russia in the blink of an eye.
idk, probably the same people who were easily influenced to become Nazis
Yeah this surely has nothing to do with it.
We’re going to get fascism back purely because the neoliberal idea of fucking over everyone for the greater glory of the wealthy, while strip-mining brown people for every bit of value apparently has consequences.
Imagine how nice the world would be if we could have convinced the wealthy to make do with less?
If they only had a multi-party democracy in Germany, then there would be a progressive party which could attract a huge swath of votes. Instead they are stuck with only a center-right and a far-right party.
Every election the center-right says the progressives must vote for them to keep the far-right out of government, so there is never a chance for the true left to get representation!
If they had multiple parties the will of the people would be heard and a utopian society would soon emerge.
In fact, there is no American-style majority voting system in Germany - as long as the elected party receives more than 5% of the vote in the federal election, it is represented in our parliament! …Nonetheless, Germany is struggling with exactly the same problem of right-wing / neo-fascist populism as basically every nation in the Western world at the moment…
For more reading on Germany’s political power / party dynamics, please have a look here!
Ideologies with easy answers thrive in times of fear and uncertainty. We’ve seen it before, we’ve seen where it leads.
German people have genuine concern about lots and lots of people coming in and changing the fabric of society in a way they don’t want.
It is also putting an increased stress on housing, depression on wages, higher tax burden and if the data is like what’s coming out of Denmark higher crime too.
The only people that benefit are the land owners and the business owners.
These are genuine issues that the left act like they aren’t real. Then they wonder why people who are listening to peoples issues get votes.
Which jobs do they usually take? They don’t speak German that well, so these are not white collar service/tech jobs, so do they work in seasonal farming, construction and some essential services? Do Germans want to raise kids do those jobs instead? Someone has to. E.g. where I live, most food delivery guys are immigrants. Who is fighting for a job like that?
