Online campaigns like these have helped radicalize a broad swath of Germany’s youth, making extreme-right ideas that were once relegated to the margins of German political discourse increasingly mainstream. The Young Alternative, the AfD youth organization that put out the dance video, has been classified by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency as an extremist group since last year.
Jfc, this comment section is a cesspit. Looks like the fascist have come out of the woods today 🙄
It’s so easy not to be a gigantic far-right cunt. It’s so easy.
Makes no god damn sense.
We failed educating people.
Germany has a stellar education system. Former East Germany skews very conservative because of overcompensation from the days of the imperialist-with-communist-dressings-DDR. You see the greatest support for the AfD in Thuringia and Saxony.
Liberal governments failed people by assuming that their status quo policies weren’t alienating younger generations.
It’s being actively failed, it’s a tactic to make the lies more effective
We need to understand what causes them to be receptive to this kind of radicalisation. Understand the root cause and then mitigate the root cause.
Sorry to play devil’s advocate here, and I don’t mind if I get a million downvotes, but the causes are well-understood and have been for a while. It’s easy to dismiss AfD voters as a bunch of uneducated, disruptive rubes while failing to see how much employment in Eastern Germany is different from the one in the West. If you have a university degree, you’ll up and leave first chance you get because wages are so much higher in the West. Else, you’ll try to survive for decades on a string of one-year contract-low-skill-jobs somewhere out in the woods, as this is completely normalized in the East. The influence, even the very existence of labor unions and works committees is greatly diminished, too, compared to the West. Inflation and rent hikes hit just the same or worse, though. Towns and cities are getting depopulated big time, especially de-womanized. People in the East feel left behind by common-run big-city politicians, and AfD has been filling this gap very systematically and effectively.
How exactly does AfD fill this gap??
They are uneducated. If they were they wouldnt vote for a party only profitting the rich, as shown by all their voting patterns. Whenever something is proposed to help poorer people they vote against it. If rich people only profit they vote in favour. If you want to change something there are more than enough non fascist parties in germany to vote from.
Social media. Especially TikTok
This is just the seed. You also need fertile ground, which is what OP is talking about.
The shorts format itself is an issue. It reduces complex issues and possible solutions to a few seconds of content. That is how the young people want to consume content. But they only thing you can do is oversimplified bullshit I’m that amount of time.
I suggest to read this in depth analysis.
That still doesn’t make it the root cause. You should probably read up on what a root cause analysis is.
I am well aware what an RCA is. The issue here is that the “root causes” like immigration fear and “the economy” are mostly fabricated or blown up.
The AfD pushes propaganda to young people. And to cite from the RCA I linked you
Younger people in particular can be strongly influenced by manipulation strategies and disinformation. They can develop problematic views of the world and people that run counter to basic democratic values.
You just surfaced 2 more adjecent layers, keep digging. I don’t know why you say you understand RCA when you stop after 2 whys.
The kids are being fed endless lies and you say the liars aren’t at fault. Blaming the left instead exactly in the way the liars do. Like a fucking script.
Dude, a huge part of my job is doing RCA.
And I don’t stop after 2 why’s. I gave you a link to a good analysis you could read. Or just ignore it…
I am also active in german politics for 20 years, and I habe done youth work for 10 years. I have gathered my fair share of first hand knowledge…
And a budget (like kremlins troll facrory)
It’s because they are fucking stupid, you know, just like America and everywhere around the world were people vote against their best interests.
It’s the same thing it’s been for decades, people just assumed that white people in wealthy countries were immune to it.
It’s because the other political content that reaches them is boring, cringe or not existant. The other parties missed their chance and are thinking too much and trying to be too correct to catch up.
There may be a question for how to solve it, how to make other perspectives more attractive. And let’s be real, who will foot the bill.
There is absolutely no doubt about the cause. It’s the economy and good luck fixing that.
E.g. unemployment in “Sachsen” may be only 6.5%, but the average wage is 3000€ while the average for the republic over all is 4300€.
Here is a map about Rent, but don’t let that fool you, the average price isn’t actually below 5€, price in cities is 8.50€ You’ll have to scroll a bit.
And average rent increase (2nd source) went from 5 to 6 and from 7 to 8. Which of course means that the absolute change was the same and the relative change was not. It doesn’t matter if it’s a “market correction”. What people see is that their rent goes up, dis-proportionally so, while wages don’t.
And of course, the meme that they can’t articulate themselves is probably true. They don’t see “the economy”. They see the state of their cities, the living standards of their friends and family and then the government spending money on anything and everything else but them and their concerns. (climate, migrants, factories for companies in different federal states, weapons to fight foreign wars, etc.)
Truth
God damnit
The center cannot hold and the right is superficially more inviting to young men.
The far right is the logical conclusion to the centrist rhetoric of the last few decades. It’s underpinned by the same ideas, whereas leftist ideology is fundamentally different. That’s to say, far right ideology isn’t more inviting only to young men, but also to everyone else who has internalised capitalist ideology.
I can see that from an American perspective. But in Europe we’re also very familiar with socialist centrism. In fact, the word socialism no longer has any meaning here.
socialist centrism
Do… do you know what either of those words mean???
Yes but European parties don’t
I’m European too, and our left wing parties have all started sliding towards the right. Which ones of them are actually proposing anything outside of the current neoliberal framework?
Ya know, i keep telling everyone–there just isn’t enough extremism out there these days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ kids just need something to believe in, why not their races supremacy over all others?
