Posted on 03/22/2016 7:39:12 PM PDT by TroutStalker
Why do people vote for Alternative for Germany (AfD), the right-wing, anti-immigration party that has stormed onto the German political stage?
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"I realized that the CDU has increasingly moved toward the leftist mainstream." He then lists all of the things that the CDU has done wrong in recent years: abandoning nuclear power, introducing a minimum wage, same-sex marriage.
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The Alternative for Germany is suddenly a force to be reckoned with. The party has thrown open the door to a new political era in the country.
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Above all, however, the revolt is aimed at the chancellor as a symbol of the country's elite -- an elite which has supposedly lost sight of the people and their concerns. For many in Germany, Merkel has become the personification of a "ruling class" -- a class that not only includes the CDU, the center-left Social Democrats and the Greens, but also business leaders, union leaders and the media. The "powers-that-be" now includes anyone who has greater abilities, greater wealth or a louder voice than one's self.
The fight against the elites is the core of the AfD message, an approach that relies more on emotion than on a particular view of the world. In a poll conducted by TNS Forschung on behalf of SPIEGEL, 88 percent of AfD supporters agreed with the following statement: "The political powers-that-be do what they want, regardless. My opinion doesn't count." Among supporters of other parties, agreement with the statement was far lower.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Sounds like a revolt against the political elite (Read: Criminal Class) is worldwide. Things will get very interesting over the next 5 years.
Agree.
Is it really right wing to oppose a million or more men from the Middle East waking into your country illegally?
Only in Europe and the White House.
“Is it really right wing to oppose a million or more men from the Middle East waking into your country illegally?”
Define “illegally”.
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Dee Spiegel: Stop calling the center the far-Right. Stopping being the Elite which is Germany’s far-Left. Nobody except far-Left Elite media types thinks this is a “refugee crisis.” It is a Moslem invasion.
New Year’s Eve’s wilding night is rightly called “whirling dervishes.”
Start calling Moslem behavior for what it is: War on the infidels.
No, the Elites will use blackmail, bribery, and a few convenient deaths to rein in the opposition. They are just giving us a chance to blow off steam and identify the folks that they need to neutralize.
Is that a trick question?
Is Donald Trump running in Germany, too?
European countries have their own national parties who are fed up with the muslim invasion, long before Trump entered the picture.
The pendulum is moving away from the left wing political correctness surrender.
We do have the “Trunp” card.
What do you mean illegally. Don't you remember that one sexual predator that told the police they couldn't arrest him because "Mrs. Merkel invited me here."
Eventually, Germany will begin to suffer sincere islamist bloodbaths, rather than just hooligan looting and sexual harassment.
Perhaps the alligator will eat them last. As long as the immigrant flood can keep sweeping in and get free everything, they may delay launching the official war.
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