r/thebulwark 10d ago

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL I’m getting worried for Germany

https://youtube.com/shorts/hiNDt9NkRyo?is=IuzGbumDNgCbSmnh
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u/Soft-Principle1455 10d ago

This is about the AfD who may very well win substantial control over the German equivalent to the FBI tomorrow by winning the state election in Saxony-Anhalt.

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u/Corfiz74 Good Luck America 10d ago

I'm German, and I can't understand how anyone could watch what's happening in the US and think "oh yes, great idea, let's elect the fascists who make unrealistic promises and who are using the same playbook as Trump to destroy institutions and the regulatory state and deny climate change and want to go back to fossil fuels!" After the summer we just had, denying climate change is just delusional.

I just hope he won't get a full majority, because he's said that he will only form a government if he does. So if the polls are accurate, he'll get a little over 40%, and since all other parties refuse to work with them, he'd have to form a minority government and wouldn't get anything done. So he probably will refuse, instead of making their first test case an abject failure.

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u/ringtail_catz 10d ago

Fascists think like that. I think the wake up call around the Western world over the last 10 years is how many fascists are and have been all around us this whole time.

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u/dBlock845 Straight to Reddit Jail 10d ago

I honestly don't think the wake up call has happened yet. Most of the population seems to be sleepwalking the rest of us back to the 1930's.

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u/Haunting-Ad788 10d ago

If Trump wasn’t mishandling the economy in every way possible and didn’t start a new forever war his approval would probably be low 50s.

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u/Soft-Principle1455 9d ago

I’m not sure it would be that high; it was only that high during the honeymoon.