They arent in power yet and i am already so sick of them. Thanks to them the AfD will be at ocer 30% next time
This was actually said by Nancy Faeser, who is still an acting minister of the parting government. Her party (SPD) will be part of the new government coalition, but her ministry (internal affairs) will go to the CSU. In my opinion it’s even worse that she, as a SPD politician said that rather than some C*U politician, because for them it wouldn’t be anything new.
I’m not sure how I feel abour the parties that won the election now executing the plans of the losing party, in order to prevent that party from winning an election next time.
I am with you, I think it’s a dumb idea. I believe we will suffer from this when the extreme right gains more political ground because of it.
I actually don’t think that they do it with the intention that the far right won’t get more votes:
https://www.stern.de/kultur/asyl-im-merz-wahlkampf--so-sind-sie-halt--die-auslaender-35444510.html
But hasnt this always been done? One example that comes to my mind, is CDU deciding to phase out atomic reactors or legalizing gay marriage because of the pressure from the greens.
It was done, because they could win elections with it, as those policies were genuinly popular and still mostly are. After Fukushima the greens were winning state elections against the CDU. There are also a fairly high number of gay conservative politicans in Germany. Jens Spahn and Alice Weidel come to mind.
It’s a political necessity really. If you keep denying the losing party any influence, they’ll grow bigger.
The Danish political system has very successfully stopped the far right parties by acknowledging their concerns and bringing some but not all of their policies into the centrist parties. Honestly this is probably much better than the alternative of the far right parties getting more and more influence.
EDIT: If you’re not Danish and not familiar with our (very successful, I might add) democratic political system, you might not understand, but it has worked quite effectively here. Keep in mind the Danish political leaning is quite leftist already, so even some of our “right-wing” parties are still quite left wing all things considered.
You don’t win elections by accepting the framing of issues by fascists. You can’t do Nazi-light, people will just want to vote for the real thing anyway.
You need to point out that the economic hardships people are experiencing are due to billionaires hoarding wealth globally, not some poor immigrant trying to feed their family.
yeah, that is going really well /s – same in Germany - when the established parties started integrating fascist rhetoric/actions into theirs, the fascist party went from 10 to 20 percent in elections.
You cannot sway the dumb voters who fall for fascist rhetoric, by going “yes, the fascists are right, but …” because if the fascists are right, why change? Anything after “but” will be discarded by voters. All they heard was you agreeing with them.
Instead say “The fascists are wrong, because …” and then list one of the many, many reasons, ideally you also list ones applicable to the situation at hand.
quite the tell on how good democracy really is. don’t hate the player, hate the game
Denied.
