Great introduction to what just happened in Hesse and Bavaria. Nothing wrong there, just two quick notes... First, the "Freien Wähler" are a less liberal or conservative party, but more a loose group of people who haven't found a place in other political movements (free thinkers, so to say). So depending where in Germany you are, the Freien Wähler may be more social or green - or in this case due to Aiwangers leadership very much conservative populistic. Second, as much as I would like to learn and use 3D graphics myself (real envy here), they are not very helpful in for conveying data. At least not like this 😅
I don’t want to defend the party neither am I convinced by it, but why is this particularly good? Do people still think that the fdp is the party for the riches ignoring the lower class? It’s such a weird myth and a program that would make no sense to go for as a party focused on economy. And another thing, people might not get this but the economy in Germany needs the rich people to keep up the social system in Germany. Ignoring their interests is not in the interest of the lower class. We all might not like the face of the party but it’s just stupid to see the party as a big threat because of it.
@@keinfanboy7984 them being focused on the more well of is certainly true in a way. More than anything else I'd identify them as the party of economic liberalism, less regulated capitalism and small state. One may argue on how to judge these ideals but in my perception they are not at all what we as a society need right now. Inequality is already reaching worrying degrees of growth and national institutions as well as infrastructure are degraded by decades of neglect. Add to that the FDP is the biggest internal factor by far for our current ruling coalitions impotence. Causing it to a large part knowingly in a time when it is precisely not what we need as a country motivated by a (now evidently) inneffective drive to increase their own power. That alone shows you a lot about what kind of people the FDP is composed of.
@@sizanogreen9900 so. What u are saying is something I can mostly agree with. It’s only logical that people don’t like the fdp. Left-voters hate the party because of the braking role it plays in the coalition and right-voters dislike the coalition itself, looking for something completely different. But I personally think that their values and ideas could be helpful for some problems Germany faces at the moment, including infrastructure. Of all the parties in the „Bundestag“ that I like to criticise, the FDP would almost be the last one. I was not surprised but kinda disappointed so see that all the fdp votes went to „freie Wähler“, „CSU“ and „AfD“. For me - this is not „good“. Idk. Obviously just my option. I’m also completely pissed by the politics and just likes to argue with random people because of it 😂
@@keinfanboy7984 well, I won't say that they have no good points, but they are overall definitly not the first party I'd vote for, more like the 4th. Dunno about FW, have never really interacted with them, but AfD and CDU/CSU are definitly worse as well in my assessment tho. Also the politics are definitly F#d up in general as well. I definitly sympathise with your general sentiment.
The KKK has also had mixed views on the environment and cannabis legalization, but I don't think those are the positions that either attract or repel people.
I have a sneaking suspicion that you’re right…the AfD, I thought it was a fringe party…I’m disappointed to see it’s doing as well as it is in Hesse, my mom was from Hesse and always voted CDU before she immigrated to the States…my Oma always warned us that what happened in Germany could happen here…I fear it could happen in Germany again, only with nuclear weapons…there won’t be a chance to repeat our mistakes again…🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Markel didn’t help matters…
To attract people you just need to have one thing in common, that's enough. If you agree in one point, this can make you attractive, and all the other points are just of no interest, the voters don't care. So if you say "you hate black people" that might be such a point. Especially if you are the only one offering this opinion.
Yes, voters are very unhappy right now. But why exactly that is, I haven't been able to figure out yet. Yes, the coalition provokes a fair bit of noise while doing what it is they're doing, but statistically they *did* get some jobs done at least. I mean, Germans suffered 16 years of Merkmel-Management, which could probably be summed up by 'cautiously governing without moving too far from the status-quo'. Yes, the refugee issue hurts the governing federal coalition, who certainly are more idealistic than many people find attractive. But I think it's also objectively true that the ruling coalition is facing a remarkably harsh media landscape.
The current government was unlucky enough to inherit the after-effects of the pandemic, and is now in office while the war in Ukraine rages (and now also the war in Palestine/Israel), pushing up prices and causing delays in the supply chain as well as giving us a fresh batch of refugees to worry about. Unfortunately, Scholz's leadership has been rather lacklustre, and the FDP is in charge of the purse-strings. The bungled attempt to push through the heating bill left a lot of people uncertain as to what was happening and fearing they would be on the hook for horrendous expenses.
there are already studies out there, that clearly show a connection between the shift to the extreme right is due to the CDU leader Merz and his Group, that push agressively right wing populist and extremist positions, wich bolsters the support of the AfD. And the disgusting smut campaigns of the CDU/CSU and FDP against the government (radiator stasi etc)
@@xCorvus7x No about the consumption survey in the new heating law. The CSU and FDP pushed a campaign calling it radiator stasi and other bullshit. They ignored that the CSU put basicly 1:1 the same law into effect a few years earlier. Its just disgusting right wing populism.
@@zhufortheimpaler4041 Don't forget that this is just the implementation of EU law into the German law. An EU law the CDU voted for over 10 years ago. Habeck is only forced to push it through to avoid penalty payments, after the CDU voted for it in EU parliament, but never cared about putting it in place federally. Every other country put it in place a decade ago (heat pumps and all) with a much greater time to transition than we have left now. And of course it went without any protests there, since it's something you can prepare for over a decade in advance... The CDU is a bunch of liars, paid by fossil fuel companies.
It's not an uncommon observation that bizarre and malicious behaviour attracts more than a few voters. For the same reason toxic persons find marriage partners with no problem...
Hard right is bad, but hard left is bad too. Moderate left appears pretty left and the greens are pretty hard left and not very green. People are fed up
It was clear from the outset that both in Hesse and in Bavaria the existing coalitions would continue. So voting for thr AFD wouldn't change anything apart from making the existing dissatisfaction with the Berlin coalition clear to Messrs. Scholz, Habeck and Lindner. A message, they were in dire need of. With the next three elections in the Eastern States it will be a completely different cup of tea.
I have absolutely no reason to be watching this video. I don't live in Germany. My partner isn't German. My family isn't German. I don't speak German. I don't really want to learn German. But somehow your videos are always encapsulating nonetheless, even sucking in people like me who have much, much more pressing matters to attend to. Keep up the good work mate! Give our best wishes to your wife too!
@@WillowGreenheart Forget about "far right" or "fascist" (what is that, anyway?). Read the programs and if these parties are ruling, compare them with their actual policy,and vote for what you think would be best by that.
The result of state votes clearly show time and time again that the general public is unfit to vote reasonably. No matter who is running the federal government, if people are unhappy, they tend to vote against those parties in the state elections. But that is not what these votes are for. You are supposed to cast your vote on what is going on in your state and not in the country as a whole. And the majority of voters do not seem to know the difference.
As it was explained to me when I was majoring in German back in college [American here] in the late 1980s, the CSU is basically, "Bavarian-flavored CDU," and exists because the Bavarians just needed to assert that they're Bavarian. 😆
As a German (and Bavarian) I don't fully know either - and I had no reason to really seek out a proper answer since I never planned on voting for them - ever. But I once asked my mom about this when I first reached voting age, and her answer was indeed that the CSU is basically just the Bavarian sister party of the CDU.
You were talking about coalitions, are they on Federal land level? If so can you also show the current coalitions per each Federal Land, and what they are actually doing in those Federal Lands?
Let's see: - Baden-Württemberg: CDU, Green - Bavaria: CSU, Green - Berlin: CDU, SPD - Brandenburg: SPD,CDU, Green - Bremen: SPD, Green, Left - Hamburg: SPD, Green - Hesse: CDU, Green - Lower Saxony: SPD, Green - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: SPD, Left - North Rhine-Westphalia: CDU, Green - Rhineland-Palatinate: SPD. Green, FDP - Saarland: SPD - Saxony: CDU, Green, SPD - Saxony-Anhalt: CDU, SPD, FDP - Schleswig-Holstein: CDU, Green - Thuringia: Left, SPD, Green And on federal level: SPD, Green, FDP So all kinds of coalitions are in power in all kinds of places.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Just two corrections: In Baden-Württemberg the Greens are the bigger partner, so their politician is the Ministerpräsident. And in Bavaria it`s CSU and FW not CSU and Greens.
And a smal fun fact: The government in Thuringia is the only one in which the ruling parties don't have more than 50% of the seats. A so called "Minderheitsregierung".
@@HappyBeezerStudios Baden-Württemberg is actually Green, CDU because the CDU got less votes. And "CSU, Green" in Bavaria was perhaps the Süddeutsche Zeitung's wet dream, but it's not the reality; that is "CSU, Free Voters" of course.
Hello Do you have more Videos or Photos of the German Village Kleinkahl. I lived here since 2013 and now I am moving to a other Village near Kleinkahl.
Yea, honestly i think its not okay to just bring up such stuff from a that long time ago, people change, what you do with 17 isn't what u would do with 40, thats just how things go. So i can understand that some thought its unfair they do this and voted him.
@@Timm2003eh... on one hand I agree, but have you actually SEEN the pamphlet? That's some pretty extreme political stuff, not just an edgy joke. It warrants some explanation at least.
A very interesting video, thank you for that! I think we Germans are complaining again at the highest level: We have survived the energy crisis and the pandemic and inflation relatively smoothly, unlike other countries (Great Britain as an example) and a study showed that many things from the coalition agreement have been tackled or even implemented and when three parties form the government, there is of course internal friction because of the different interests. The government has also had to master many crises in a short period, in retrospect everything can always be seen in such a way that measures could have been implemented better. I think it's good that the parties and the government are reacting now and want to tackle the issues that are causing the right-wing parties to grow in numbers, and this must not be done half-heartedly, otherwise there will be a huge shift to the right, I fear, and that worries me.
I hate it here. People mad about the government and those are the ones who love the AfD, who fucking plays with the idea again to do the German Brexit. Absolute clowns 😮💨
@@Nils.Minimalist ich habe schon ewig keine Artikel auf Deutsch gelesen, die nicht Biden unterstützen. Doch, Wochenpresse. Aber die senden aus der Schweiz und können sich das noch erlauben, bis die Deutschen dort einmarschieren,
Very unlikely on federal level, indeed, but state politics in Germany is quite different from the federal politics, and CDU and Greens (sometimes in a tree party) coalition is nothing so unusual any more for quite a while.
the greens are as center right and opportunistic as it gets, it's really no surprise if you look deeper than the most surface level rhetoric. greens are basically just FDP that like veganism a bit more.
On the contrary, it will very likely continue. Next year, three states in eastern Germany will have elections, and polls right now put the AfD in the number one spot in each of them.
@@rewboss Didn't mean to imply that they are not unhappy. Unfortunately, they blame it on the wrong causes and give their votes to those who have no solution to anything (AFD) or those who caused a lot of the problems in the first place (CxU). It's a shame how easily people can be misguided by populists.
In a democracy, you need no justification to vote for any party as long it has been admitted to the elections. Vote casting is secret. Voting for a party which opposed reunification, tried to legalise paedophilia, and had personal contacts with leftist terrorists is not very responsible either. Cohn-Bendit, Fischer, Roth, Trettin, Beck..... The list is long. I'm not aware that a weapon used to kill a magistrate was transported in the car of an AfD politician, nor have the supported the flight of terrorists from justice. The greens can't claim the same.
@@rewboss when I hear people complaining about the parties in government and wanting to express their dissatisfaction by voting AfD, I point out the ballot paper lists quite a lot of other choices which could serve that purpose without threatening to derail the country or dismantling civil liberties.
A "Meme" is either a fact or a rumor. "To the best of your ability" rather sounds like an assumption, a rumor, or some kind of guess. Not like a fact. That's why "We do not do that here" is completly correct.
Feels like as long as I remember the news has been 'European country elects more right wing government ' with a handful of exceptions like the last German federal election or the Dutch Rutteocracy.
We can expect some rough times coming up, looking at the upcoming elections in the former GDR - Sachsen, Thuringia and Brandenburg. I am not quite sure if I want the AfD to get elected there and fail badly, or not get voted at all...
These extremist parties have victimization baked into their narrative, so if they fail, they’ll blame it on outside forces working against them. Furthermore, their clientele doesn’t seem to care about actual successes. They just want to feel like there’s someone who‘s giving them a voice (even though, IMHO, the party is just exploiting and amplifying people’s fears for its own gain).
Sahra Wagenknecht, a conservative leftist who is currently the most popular politician of Die Linke, is planning to found a party which a lot of unhappy voters (especially the poor) are looking forward to. Many politics experts predict this party huge success in East Germany, especially voters moving from the AfD to the new party. A lot of AfD voters are actually not far right, but just nationalists and would prefer an economically left nationalist party, which doesn't exist in the parliament yet (since Die Linke is also full of climate, queer and pro-immigration activists) As a progressive who is actually an opponent of Wagenknecht, I'm still excited to hopefully see the AfD rapidly lose votes and how society will find at least some peace.
Now that reminds me of the whole WASG a while back. A bunch of people on the left wing of the SPD who were unhappy with the SPD-Green government left and made their own party. Only to then fuse with the PDS into the current Linke. And that voterbase is pretty much moving back and forth between SPD and Linke now.
As a queer person living in Bavaria, I recommend to carry any legal self defense tools you can get your hands on. I can't feel safe in a place where a fifth of the people voted for fascists and another third voted for regular conservatives (aka thinly veiled fascists). I don't feel welcome in my own homeland. Be safe out there, be ready and able to defend yourself to the utmost extent. Feels like some baaaaad shit's about to go down soon.
For Aiwanger to have handled it badly, his party gained 4% just in the 3 weeks after the scandal. And thats because media reported pretty badly on it (like you). It probably was a flyer that was written by someone else at his class and he was just given one (hence only one in his backpack). The media portrayed it as if he wrote it himself. Once again making people despise them more and voting more FW in response.
It wasn't "someone". Aiwanger's brother admitted to have written the pamphlet. That does not mean this is the truth though. But it seems very likely that one of both brothers wrote it. We still need to keep in mind that a) Aiwanger (the politician) is not convicted of writing the pamphlet and b) whoever wrote it was of young age and it happened in a school environment. The circumstances were not so that this case would likely end up at court if it happened today. A serious reprimand was issued, if to the guilty person, we do not know. I agree the revealment just ahead of the elections was not helpful in the end. It might even have been perceived as unfair by people supporting the Free Voters, which do not generally appear as an extremist, racist party. Just conservative.
@@ppd3bw A socialist teacher kept the leaflet in his private home, after 35 years passed it one when he and the press thought it was inconveniant. This is a typical Stasi method. This individual seriously and probably criminally betrayed the trust between teacher and pupil. A good reason indeed not to vote for the SPD and cancel the subscriptions to the papers distributing this filth.
And that is why none of the other parties agrees to coalition talks with them. Unless they get >50% somewhere they'll stay in opposition. Let#s just hope people keep an eye on it.
@@Sternburg If I really went to the length of defining racism to you and list every action or wording by afd leaders, supporters, etc You would still be unable to grasp it. Because afd supporters are conveniently blind to it. But everyone else can see it. And the leaders know they would lose a chunk of voters if they realized.
@@connectingthedots100 I don't want you to list every single thing. I just want proof that the party is racist as you say. Where *specifically* do they say that some people are worth less based on their skin color?
@@Sternburg You are just arguing with me because you in your mind the afd can't be racist because you support them. You don't want to understand. Because if you did, you would not be able to support the afd - and be somewhat ashamed you did. So there is no way I can help you understand. It's not rocket science. But the stakes are to high for you. If you wanted to understand, you would just Google "racist remarks by afd" and get a long list of examples you could think about. Sorry, but there is nothing I can do for you.
I am happy about the AfD's gains. The current German government wants to force my country, Hungary, to accept a large number of migrants who celebrate the massacre of civilians in Israel. All over the world, from Austria to Australia these people have shown where their sympathies are.
als eine neue, queere Migrantin bin ich ein bisschen besorgt, dass die AfD so viele Stimmen in Westdeutschland bekommen hat... aber glücklich bin ich, in der Nähe von Berlin zu wohnen xD wenn ich in den Supermarkt gegangen bin, war ich wirklich überrascht, dass niemand meine Regenbogentasche kommentiert hat 😂
@@Zipcom69 also... ich komme aus einem Land, dessen Regierung für die bestenfalls Gleichgültigkeit und oft auch Intoleranz gegenüber LGBTQ+-Organisationen und Menschen bekannt ist... natürlich bin ich viel vorsichtiger als notwendig lol doch freue ich mich sehr, dass ich (normalerweise) nicht länger mich verstecken muss :3
70.2% of the votes in Bavaria went to [far-]rightwing parties. the AfD and FreeVoters together collected 30.2% and the not quite centre-right CSU and the free-market, low-tax and business friendly FDP scooped up 40%. only 26.1% of the votes went to progressive or centre-left parties.
Rural Bavarians are pretty conservative (I'd rather say hillbilly)... The votes in big cities like Nuremberg and Munich were much more progressive, even for Bavaria.
@@kentknightofcaelin4537 and where is the second left but "without Wagenknecht" party that is able to get a one digit percentage at least? For real that person doesn't have much power in the party. Easy but questionable excuse.
For those viewers that have questions regarding the Freie Wähler (Free Voters): In the radio a representative of the Free Voters was asked if it wouldn‘t be better if the CSU and the AfD formed the government and the Free Voters represented the opposition the answer was no because then the Green Party would have more to say in Bavarian politics. So, they‘d rather have fascists in power than the Green party. This is seriously messed up.
It doesn't sound like you presented their point in a fair way. They said the don't want the AFD in power and you turned it around and said that makes them pro AFD for some reason.
@@TheGoukarumaI doubt they really mean that. Please as if they wouldnt try getting Power even with the afd. They are not unlike each other. The most difference is they act like they are distance from afd politics and Not the same facists
The green party was founded by people like Fischer, COhn-Bendit. They were personally involved with leftist terrorists (e.g. Hans Joachim Klein whose flight from authorities in France they financially supported). A gun used in a crime was found in Fischers car. Cohn Bendit propagated paedophilia in a published book (Der große Bazar). In 1989 they opposed the Wiedervereinigung, reunification and rejected the "annexation" of the GDR. An unequivocal violation of German Basic Law, now and at the time. This and many other good reasons for not wanting them in a position of power. I wouldn't even want them as teachers, judges, and kindergarten educators (with a view on Cohn-Bendit)
The federal government seems to be doing mistakes after missteps. No wonder the voters (especially in the states with conservative strongholds) are going to react.
There's also the CDU making more and more populist politics by the day, developing and driving on an anti-progressive movement that's just fueled by gut feelings. Don't act like the voters actually know what they're doing.
If this man got into German politics and could get through with his opinions, these would be the results: 1. Unruled immigration plus instant democratic rights for every immigrant would very fast turn Germany into an Islamic state with the official language (by the way: now German only has the status of a working language) being Arabic. 2. 24-hour surveillance of any transaction by any citizen by cameras, cashfree payment systems, home office jobs and controlled e-mails. It would be declared illegal not to carry a smartphone with oneself when leaving home. 3. Public transportation systems would be replaced by cheap collector taxis as a safer option. 4. Eventually immigration would become emigration as the industry will have crumbled under the pressure to be likewise carbon-free and to pay for the party (high taxes). Rewboss, too, will emigrate as he has dual citizenship for his own safety.
That's a very weird set of assumptions about me. 1. No. I'm not petrified of foreigners coming into the country (especially since I am one) but I have no problem with sensible safeguards, and I am not in favour of just handing out citizenships to anyone who wants one. 2. I don't know where you get that idea from, since I have often spoken out against surveillance and over-reliance on technology that can be used to track people. 3. Again, that is the absolute opposite of what I believe. I even have a UA-cam video arguing in favour of traditional timetabled buses and against replacing them with on-demand services. 4. I don't see how transitioning away from an economy based on fossil fuels to one based on renewable energy would destroy industry. We successfully transitioned from an agrarian economy to an industrial one, this is just making changes to the industry. I think it would be a sensible strategy to be at the forefront of developing new technologies as a way to future-proof our industry. We've already seen how vulnerable our economy is to fluctuations in the price of oil -- if, for example, we have vast untapped reserves of geothermal energy in our own country (an actual thing that experts are looking into), why not use that instead? Way more reliable, much cheaper, and doesn't involve pumping poisonous gases and smoke into the air we need to breathe to stay alive.
"Voters are very unhappy" is an understatement. German voters are so furious at the current government they're literally willing to go back to 1933. I don't think I have to say how horribly that went out last time for Europe and the World.
the thing is, much of that unhappiness has to do with smut campaigns made by the Springer Group (Bild, Welt etc) and CDU/CSU and FDP campaigning. Ironicly the FDP is running a hard line opposition from inside the government and gets a brutal ratio by the electorate, kicking them out of another Landtag and the estimates for their federal % is dropping fast towards the 5%. FDP and Union are bleeding off voters to the AfD, Greens and SPD loose voters to non voters. Its a shitshow coming from the right wing of the Union and the FDP
@@HelmutQ If only AfD voters were affected by AfD policies, that attitude would make sense. But unfortunately I have to live with the damage they do whether I vote for them or not.
@@HelmutQ Well, that is part of the democracy I'm trying to protect. If you feel like that party is acting on your best interest please do vote for them. I'm just saying that they (imho) do not deserve your vote. It's a party for people who think of themselves first. People how strugle with changes in their life caused by 3rd parties (such as Corona, the war against Ukraine, global warming, ...). To put it in perspective with the words of Albert Einstein: The measurment of intelligence is the ability to change.
I voted not this time as I was and still am out of the country. My friends who are both germans AND people with migration backgrounds like myself voted AFD.
Aiwanger is the most authentic one of all these politicians, and people feel that he really cares for their problems. That's why they vote for him. And if some scandalmongers from the political left and certain newspapers actively try to push him out of politics (THAT is what really happened), they double down and tell themselves NOW they'll definitely vote for him. Which is also what happened.
I mean there is this whole system with banning parties. But that obviously and for good reason isnt something easily executed. rewboss actually made a video about that recently. I recommend watching it, its quite informative
There have been no signs for that. It's not a two party situation, money doesn't play that big role, TV debate doesn't play a big role, and electoral district haven't been reassigned to encourage special results. There are not much parallels.
You may not have approved of Aiwanger's reaction, but it was a success at least operationally. He got an enormous totally unexpected boost in the last couple of weeks and stayed in front of the AfD in his victim role. If you measure success by ballots, yes it was a success. People were very pissed off with a social democratic teacher in pension who kept a 17 years old's confiscated leaflet in his private dossier at his home and pass it to the press 35 years later when it became convenient. And incredible breach of confidence between teacher and pupil. That is how Bavarians think about it, irrespective of what was written on the infantile leaflet. Doubtlessly a criminal act by a scumbag and the press in particular the SZ did not look good. Looks like Stasi walks like Stasi, smells like Stasi, and probably it is not a duck. Nobody, not even the losers denied that their disastrous results were really produced in Berlin and not locally. The FDP is now in a position to turn the tables. Either carry the responsibility for the desaster and ultimately being voted out of Landtag after Landtag or force new general elections and survive slightly above 5% for this bravery. Kubicikis's allusions go into this direction.
Thanks Andrew... always appreciate your straight to the point informative takes.
Great introduction to what just happened in Hesse and Bavaria. Nothing wrong there, just two quick notes...
First, the "Freien Wähler" are a less liberal or conservative party, but more a loose group of people who haven't found a place in other political movements (free thinkers, so to say). So depending where in Germany you are, the Freien Wähler may be more social or green - or in this case due to Aiwangers leadership very much conservative populistic.
Second, as much as I would like to learn and use 3D graphics myself (real envy here), they are not very helpful in for conveying data. At least not like this 😅
My answer is "it's a shame the FDP weren't voted out of Hesse"
there are very few good news recently. But the FDP getting less votes is definitly one of them.
I don’t want to defend the party neither am I convinced by it, but why is this particularly good?
Do people still think that the fdp is the party for the riches ignoring the lower class? It’s such a weird myth and a program that would make no sense to go for as a party focused on economy.
And another thing, people might not get this but the economy in Germany needs the rich people to keep up the social system in Germany. Ignoring their interests is not in the interest of the lower class.
We all might not like the face of the party but it’s just stupid to see the party as a big threat because of it.
@@keinfanboy7984 them being focused on the more well of is certainly true in a way. More than anything else I'd identify them as the party of economic liberalism, less regulated capitalism and small state. One may argue on how to judge these ideals but in my perception they are not at all what we as a society need right now.
Inequality is already reaching worrying degrees of growth and national institutions as well as infrastructure are degraded by decades of neglect.
Add to that the FDP is the biggest internal factor by far for our current ruling coalitions impotence. Causing it to a large part knowingly in a time when it is precisely not what we need as a country motivated by a (now evidently) inneffective drive to increase their own power.
That alone shows you a lot about what kind of people the FDP is composed of.
@@sizanogreen9900 so. What u are saying is something I can mostly agree with.
It’s only logical that people don’t like the fdp. Left-voters hate the party because of the braking role it plays in the coalition and right-voters dislike the coalition itself, looking for something completely different.
But I personally think that their values and ideas could be helpful for some problems Germany faces at the moment, including infrastructure.
Of all the parties in the „Bundestag“ that I like to criticise, the FDP would almost be the last one. I was not surprised but kinda disappointed so see that all the fdp votes went to „freie Wähler“, „CSU“ and „AfD“. For me - this is not „good“.
Idk. Obviously just my option. I’m also completely pissed by the politics and just likes to argue with random people because of it 😂
@@keinfanboy7984 well, I won't say that they have no good points, but they are overall definitly not the first party I'd vote for, more like the 4th. Dunno about FW, have never really interacted with them, but AfD and CDU/CSU are definitly worse as well in my assessment tho.
Also the politics are definitly F#d up in general as well. I definitly sympathise with your general sentiment.
The KKK has also had mixed views on the environment and cannabis legalization, but I don't think those are the positions that either attract or repel people.
I have a sneaking suspicion that you’re right…the AfD, I thought it was a fringe party…I’m disappointed to see it’s doing as well as it is in Hesse, my mom was from Hesse and always voted CDU before she immigrated to the States…my Oma always warned us that what happened in Germany could happen here…I fear it could happen in Germany again, only with nuclear weapons…there won’t be a chance to repeat our mistakes again…🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Markel didn’t help matters…
To attract people you just need to have one thing in common, that's enough. If you agree in one point, this can make you attractive, and all the other points are just of no interest, the voters don't care. So if you say "you hate black people" that might be such a point. Especially if you are the only one offering this opinion.
They are an offshoot of the Democratic Party.
well you cannot really make that comparison? Seems far fetched.
@@felixklauk4410 No, it's a valid analogy. Superior topic is "How does populism work and why do (some) people like it".
This was just the right level of detail, great graphics, and really interesting (for me at least). Thanks!
Ooooo German politics, I'm actually excited to learn what's going on.
Yes, voters are very unhappy right now.
But why exactly that is, I haven't been able to figure out yet. Yes, the coalition provokes a fair bit of noise while doing what it is they're doing, but statistically they *did* get some jobs done at least. I mean, Germans suffered 16 years of Merkmel-Management, which could probably be summed up by 'cautiously governing without moving too far from the status-quo'.
Yes, the refugee issue hurts the governing federal coalition, who certainly are more idealistic than many people find attractive. But I think it's also objectively true that the ruling coalition is facing a remarkably harsh media landscape.
The current government was unlucky enough to inherit the after-effects of the pandemic, and is now in office while the war in Ukraine rages (and now also the war in Palestine/Israel), pushing up prices and causing delays in the supply chain as well as giving us a fresh batch of refugees to worry about.
Unfortunately, Scholz's leadership has been rather lacklustre, and the FDP is in charge of the purse-strings. The bungled attempt to push through the heating bill left a lot of people uncertain as to what was happening and fearing they would be on the hook for horrendous expenses.
there are already studies out there, that clearly show a connection between the shift to the extreme right is due to the CDU leader Merz and his Group, that push agressively right wing populist and extremist positions, wich bolsters the support of the AfD.
And the disgusting smut campaigns of the CDU/CSU and FDP against the government (radiator stasi etc)
@@zhufortheimpaler4041 Radiator stasi? Is this about meter readers that are supposedly able to remotely turn off supply?
@@xCorvus7x No about the consumption survey in the new heating law.
The CSU and FDP pushed a campaign calling it radiator stasi and other bullshit.
They ignored that the CSU put basicly 1:1 the same law into effect a few years earlier.
Its just disgusting right wing populism.
@@zhufortheimpaler4041 Don't forget that this is just the implementation of EU law into the German law. An EU law the CDU voted for over 10 years ago. Habeck is only forced to push it through to avoid penalty payments, after the CDU voted for it in EU parliament, but never cared about putting it in place federally. Every other country put it in place a decade ago (heat pumps and all) with a much greater time to transition than we have left now. And of course it went without any protests there, since it's something you can prepare for over a decade in advance...
The CDU is a bunch of liars, paid by fossil fuel companies.
It's not an uncommon observation that bizarre and malicious behaviour attracts more than a few voters.
For the same reason toxic persons find marriage partners with no problem...
Hard right is bad, but hard left is bad too. Moderate left appears pretty left and the greens are pretty hard left and not very green. People are fed up
Is it bad to not want to go ex
tinct?
"bOth SiDEs" my god, you people are so pathetic.
If the greens are far left for you, then the afd would be moderate.
What hard right. It’s the people voting against the ruination of Germany by socialists
It was clear from the outset that both in Hesse and in Bavaria the existing coalitions would continue. So voting for thr AFD wouldn't change anything apart from making the existing dissatisfaction with the Berlin coalition clear to Messrs. Scholz, Habeck and Lindner. A message, they were in dire need of. With the next three elections in the Eastern States it will be a completely different cup of tea.
I have absolutely no reason to be watching this video. I don't live in Germany. My partner isn't German. My family isn't German. I don't speak German. I don't really want to learn German. But somehow your videos are always encapsulating nonetheless, even sucking in people like me who have much, much more pressing matters to attend to.
Keep up the good work mate! Give our best wishes to your wife too!
Not everyone that disagrees with you is far-right
Thumb up + "who" (for "that").
no one hates being called far right more than far right voters lmao
why so ashamed
But being far right and fascisic is kinda thing if you vote for far right and fascistic parties. xD
@@WillowGreenheart Forget about "far right" or "fascist" (what is that, anyway?). Read the programs and if these parties are ruling, compare them with their actual policy,and vote for what you think would be best by that.
As Bavarian I’m not happy with that result at all, but also not surprised…
Same here. All I can say is that my vote didn't contribute to any of the parties over 5% and the FDP.
If I'm really mean I would say, Hitler's Nazis loved Bavaria for a reason.
@Scar_instinct If you go to Historisches Lexikon Bayerns, Hitler und Bayern, you'll find some background on that. Can't post link, apparently.
The result of state votes clearly show time and time again that the general public is unfit to vote reasonably.
No matter who is running the federal government, if people are unhappy, they tend to vote against those parties in the state elections.
But that is not what these votes are for. You are supposed to cast your vote on what is going on in your state and not in the country as a whole. And the majority of voters do not seem to know the difference.
As it was explained to me when I was majoring in German back in college [American here] in the late 1980s, the CSU is basically, "Bavarian-flavored CDU," and exists because the Bavarians just needed to assert that they're Bavarian. 😆
As a German (and Bavarian) I don't fully know either - and I had no reason to really seek out a proper answer since I never planned on voting for them - ever.
But I once asked my mom about this when I first reached voting age, and her answer was indeed that the CSU is basically just the Bavarian sister party of the CDU.
You were talking about coalitions, are they on Federal land level?
If so can you also show the current coalitions per each Federal Land, and what they are actually doing in those Federal Lands?
That would be a long video.
Let's see:
- Baden-Württemberg: CDU, Green
- Bavaria: CSU, Green
- Berlin: CDU, SPD
- Brandenburg: SPD,CDU, Green
- Bremen: SPD, Green, Left
- Hamburg: SPD, Green
- Hesse: CDU, Green
- Lower Saxony: SPD, Green
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: SPD, Left
- North Rhine-Westphalia: CDU, Green
- Rhineland-Palatinate: SPD. Green, FDP
- Saarland: SPD
- Saxony: CDU, Green, SPD
- Saxony-Anhalt: CDU, SPD, FDP
- Schleswig-Holstein: CDU, Green
- Thuringia: Left, SPD, Green
And on federal level: SPD, Green, FDP
So all kinds of coalitions are in power in all kinds of places.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Just two corrections: In Baden-Württemberg the Greens are the bigger partner, so their politician is the Ministerpräsident. And in Bavaria it`s CSU and FW not CSU and Greens.
And a smal fun fact: The government in Thuringia is the only one in which the ruling parties don't have more than 50% of the seats. A so called "Minderheitsregierung".
@@HappyBeezerStudios Baden-Württemberg is actually Green, CDU because the CDU got less votes. And "CSU, Green" in Bavaria was perhaps the Süddeutsche Zeitung's wet dream, but it's not the reality; that is "CSU, Free Voters" of course.
I am unhappy about the results of the election especially the gains of afd and fw. But was your last sentence sarcastic?
It’s democracy
@@Arc-tz5qd it is democracy to vote fascists?
@@johnblack8178 is it democracy to tell people that their vote is wrong?
@@allylilith5605 freedom of speech
@@johnblack8178 exactly. and freedom of vote should be a thing too
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Do you have more Videos or Photos of the German Village Kleinkahl. I lived here since 2013 and now I am moving to a other Village near Kleinkahl.
Correction: "I have been living here..."
@@ruedigernassauer sorry , I am German
@@Carmen...... Metoo, brüll!
I think that quite a few voters voted for the Freie Wähler BECAUSE of Aiwanger's anti-semitic quotes.
whats so wrong with that?
Yea, honestly i think its not okay to just bring up such stuff from a that long time ago, people change, what you do with 17 isn't what u would do with 40, thats just how things go. So i can understand that some thought its unfair they do this and voted him.
I can understand that. I mean... which fifteen years old never made a big mistake?...."The one who is without [this] sin might throw the first stone."
@@Timm2003 I think quite few voted for him because they agree with these quotes.
@@Timm2003eh... on one hand I agree, but have you actually SEEN the pamphlet? That's some pretty extreme political stuff, not just an edgy joke. It warrants some explanation at least.
There was a beautiful moment where the preliminary count for Hesse had the FDP at 4.9%, but I knew that was too good to be true.
Next time for sure
A very interesting video, thank you for that! I think we Germans are complaining again at the highest level: We have survived the energy crisis and the pandemic and inflation relatively smoothly, unlike other countries (Great Britain as an example) and a study showed that many things from the coalition agreement have been tackled or even implemented and when three parties form the government, there is of course internal friction because of the different interests. The government has also had to master many crises in a short period, in retrospect everything can always be seen in such a way that measures could have been implemented better. I think it's good that the parties and the government are reacting now and want to tackle the issues that are causing the right-wing parties to grow in numbers, and this must not be done half-heartedly, otherwise there will be a huge shift to the right, I fear, and that worries me.
I hate it here. People mad about the government and those are the ones who love the AfD, who fucking plays with the idea again to do the German Brexit. Absolute clowns 😮💨
Die Springer Presse macht der Anti-Ampel-Rhetorik aber auch extrem viel Druck
Jede Menge Medien (FAZ etc), Xitter machten Propaganda. Die AgD hielt sogar Infoabende in einigen Gemeinden ab…
Würde mich ja nicht wundern, wenn die Springer Presse irgendwelche connections zu Rupert Murdoch hätte 😂
@@Nils.Minimalist ich habe schon ewig keine Artikel auf Deutsch gelesen, die nicht Biden unterstützen. Doch, Wochenpresse. Aber die senden aus der Schweiz und können sich das noch erlauben, bis die Deutschen dort einmarschieren,
Not me and my girlfriend watching this same video for the third/fourth time just because there's no new rewboss video
Sorry, been really busy lately. But more videos are incoming.
@@rewboss Nobody's rushing you (hopefully)
I'm just kidding, referring to the beginning of the video :)
Best wishes!
I'm not allowed to vote so I guess I'm happy.
I am at a loss how the greens and the cdu can govern together. They seem to be in opposition to each other in every thing.
They've been working together in Baden-Württemberg for years now, they'll be fine (a bit bended and dented, but still fine)
Tbf on the state level it's much easier to form these weird coalitions than on the federal level.
Very unlikely on federal level, indeed, but state politics in Germany is quite different from the federal politics, and CDU and Greens (sometimes in a tree party) coalition is nothing so unusual any more for quite a while.
the greens are as center right and opportunistic as it gets, it's really no surprise if you look deeper than the most surface level rhetoric.
greens are basically just FDP that like veganism a bit more.
@@glomman That is why the AfD in BW is stronger than in Bavaria and Hesse.
Erstmal blau und braun gleichzeitig als Balken. Ich dachte eher an entweder oder...
Let's hope the trend doesn't continue. It still two years to the next federal election.
On the contrary, it will very likely continue. Next year, three states in eastern Germany will have elections, and polls right now put the AfD in the number one spot in each of them.
The good thing is: A coalition with the AfD is highly unlikely. Even the csu tries to avoid it
I am not looking forward to the goverment of the next 5 years.....
Being "unhappy" does by no means justify voting for far right fascist parties. That's completely irresponsible.
That may be, but if they were happy, they would continue voting for the status quo.
that is true, so luckily more than 99% of people didnt
@@rewboss Didn't mean to imply that they are not unhappy. Unfortunately, they blame it on the wrong causes and give their votes to those who have no solution to anything (AFD) or those who caused a lot of the problems in the first place (CxU). It's a shame how easily people can be misguided by populists.
In a democracy, you need no justification to vote for any party as long it has been admitted to the elections. Vote casting is secret. Voting for a party which opposed reunification, tried to legalise paedophilia, and had personal contacts with leftist terrorists is not very responsible either. Cohn-Bendit, Fischer, Roth, Trettin, Beck..... The list is long. I'm not aware that a weapon used to kill a magistrate was transported in the car of an AfD politician, nor have the supported the flight of terrorists from justice. The greens can't claim the same.
@@rewboss when I hear people complaining about the parties in government and wanting to express their dissatisfaction by voting AfD, I point out the ballot paper lists quite a lot of other choices which could serve that purpose without threatening to derail the country or dismantling civil liberties.
die freien wähler gibts bundesweit
Truthfully reporting facts to the best of your ability? We do not do that here. You monster.
A "Meme" is either a fact or a rumor. "To the best of your ability" rather sounds like an assumption, a rumor, or some kind of guess. Not like a fact.
That's why "We do not do that here" is completly correct.
Feels like as long as I remember the news has been 'European country elects more right wing government ' with a handful of exceptions like the last German federal election or the Dutch Rutteocracy.
Or UK. Looks like wet Tory govt will cede to Blairite Labour next year!
Huh? Rutte is not right-wing? If he's left-wing, god help us all
@@gwaptiva I'm saying it's not moving to the right because the same guy has been in power 13 years.
Bro wie legt denn die CDU bitte an stimmen zu? Da muss was faul sein an der Sache
Die Wähler sind von der Ampelkoalition enttäuscht. Es gibt da nur wenige Alternativen: Die Linke, die AfD, oder eben die Union.
@@rewboss 😩 ja ok macht sinn. ist trotzdem weird zu erleben
We can expect some rough times coming up, looking at the upcoming elections in the former GDR - Sachsen, Thuringia and Brandenburg. I am not quite sure if I want the AfD to get elected there and fail badly, or not get voted at all...
These extremist parties have victimization baked into their narrative, so if they fail, they’ll blame it on outside forces working against them. Furthermore, their clientele doesn’t seem to care about actual successes. They just want to feel like there’s someone who‘s giving them a voice (even though, IMHO, the party is just exploiting and amplifying people’s fears for its own gain).
Sahra Wagenknecht, a conservative leftist who is currently the most popular politician of Die Linke, is planning to found a party which a lot of unhappy voters (especially the poor) are looking forward to. Many politics experts predict this party huge success in East Germany, especially voters moving from the AfD to the new party.
A lot of AfD voters are actually not far right, but just nationalists and would prefer an economically left nationalist party, which doesn't exist in the parliament yet (since Die Linke is also full of climate, queer and pro-immigration activists)
As a progressive who is actually an opponent of Wagenknecht, I'm still excited to hopefully see the AfD rapidly lose votes and how society will find at least some peace.
Now that reminds me of the whole WASG a while back. A bunch of people on the left wing of the SPD who were unhappy with the SPD-Green government left and made their own party. Only to then fuse with the PDS into the current Linke. And that voterbase is pretty much moving back and forth between SPD and Linke now.
3d charts are really hard to read
As a queer person living in Bavaria, I recommend to carry any legal self defense tools you can get your hands on.
I can't feel safe in a place where a fifth of the people voted for fascists and another third voted for regular conservatives (aka thinly veiled fascists).
I don't feel welcome in my own homeland.
Be safe out there, be ready and able to defend yourself to the utmost extent.
Feels like some baaaaad shit's about to go down soon.
How do you feel about the AfD having a lesbian as party chairwoman?
Other queer people around the world that don't feel safe where they are tend to flee to somewhere. Usually to Germany. Count your blessings, I assume.
I haven't read such nonsense in a long time. It is only unsafe where even ordinary mortals do not dare to go.
How many times did you get victim of a right wing hatecrime... sorry that is paranoid bs.
when you visit frankfurt, are you feeling safe there?
@@imrehundertwasser7094How about putting your feelings aside and face reality how homophobic and transphobic this party is?
For Aiwanger to have handled it badly, his party gained 4% just in the 3 weeks after the scandal.
And thats because media reported pretty badly on it (like you). It probably was a flyer that was written by someone else at his class and he was just given one (hence only one in his backpack). The media portrayed it as if he wrote it himself.
Once again making people despise them more and voting more FW in response.
People like you believe what they want to believe 😂
It wasn't "someone". Aiwanger's brother admitted to have written the pamphlet. That does not mean this is the truth though. But it seems very likely that one of both brothers wrote it. We still need to keep in mind that
a) Aiwanger (the politician) is not convicted of writing the pamphlet and
b) whoever wrote it was of young age and it happened in a school environment. The circumstances were not so that this case would likely end up at court if it happened today. A serious reprimand was issued, if to the guilty person, we do not know.
I agree the revealment just ahead of the elections was not helpful in the end. It might even have been perceived as unfair by people supporting the Free Voters, which do not generally appear as an extremist, racist party. Just conservative.
@@ppd3bw A socialist teacher kept the leaflet in his private home, after 35 years passed it one when he and the press thought it was inconveniant. This is a typical Stasi method. This individual seriously and probably criminally betrayed the trust between teacher and pupil. A good reason indeed not to vote for the SPD and cancel the subscriptions to the papers distributing this filth.
How daft can you be to vote for people who are racist. In Germany. I'm so mad.
And that is why none of the other parties agrees to coalition talks with them. Unless they get >50% somewhere they'll stay in opposition. Let#s just hope people keep an eye on it.
How are they racist? Please give me some information
@@Sternburg If I really went to the length of defining racism to you and list every action or wording by afd leaders, supporters, etc You would still be unable to grasp it. Because afd supporters are conveniently blind to it. But everyone else can see it. And the leaders know they would lose a chunk of voters if they realized.
@@connectingthedots100 I don't want you to list every single thing. I just want proof that the party is racist as you say. Where *specifically* do they say that some people are worth less based on their skin color?
@@Sternburg You are just arguing with me because you in your mind the afd can't be racist because you support them. You don't want to understand. Because if you did, you would not be able to support the afd - and be somewhat ashamed you did. So there is no way I can help you understand. It's not rocket science. But the stakes are to high for you.
If you wanted to understand, you would just Google "racist remarks by afd" and get a long list of examples you could think about.
Sorry, but there is nothing I can do for you.
I am happy about the AfD's gains. The current German government wants to force my country, Hungary, to accept a large number of migrants who celebrate the massacre of civilians in Israel. All over the world, from Austria to Australia these people have shown where their sympathies are.
Hungary is another shitshow on its own.
That your country is still part of the EU and hasnt been kicked out is mindblowing.
Es benötigt einen strukturwandel, und irgendwie biten sich keine der parteien
Germany needs a new unified socialist party and a static list of candidates to vote on. That way Germany would have stability.
Die Partei hat immer Recht :-)
Assuming this was sarcasm I gave you a thumbs up
unironisch aber
als eine neue, queere Migrantin bin ich ein bisschen besorgt, dass die AfD so viele Stimmen in Westdeutschland bekommen hat... aber glücklich bin ich, in der Nähe von Berlin zu wohnen xD
wenn ich in den Supermarkt gegangen bin, war ich wirklich überrascht, dass niemand meine Regenbogentasche kommentiert hat 😂
Niemand interessieren Regenbogentaschen oder irgend einen anderen Regenbogensonstwas. Solange man es nicht selbst aufgenötigt bekommt.
@@Zipcom69 also... ich komme aus einem Land, dessen Regierung für die bestenfalls Gleichgültigkeit und oft auch Intoleranz gegenüber LGBTQ+-Organisationen und Menschen bekannt ist... natürlich bin ich viel vorsichtiger als notwendig lol
doch freue ich mich sehr, dass ich (normalerweise) nicht länger mich verstecken muss :3
@@Zipcom69ähm doch genau deswegen heulen fw afd und Co rum.
Das und das gleichberechtigung relevant ist.
Ich wünsch dir viel Kraft und Glück. Lass dich nicht von dummen Hasskommentaren runterziehen.
Um in Berlin noch Aufsehen zu erregen, musst du schon zur Feier der Ermordung zahlreicher Juden Süßigkeiten verteilen.
W respect, it’s more surprising how many voters stuck w the Ampel
70.2% of the votes in Bavaria went to [far-]rightwing parties. the AfD and FreeVoters together collected 30.2% and the not quite centre-right CSU and the free-market, low-tax and business friendly FDP scooped up 40%.
only 26.1% of the votes went to progressive or centre-left parties.
Yeah, but that's normal in Bavaria. The CSU alone used to regularly get over 50%, sometimes as much as 60%.
Rural Bavarians are pretty conservative (I'd rather say hillbilly)... The votes in big cities like Nuremberg and Munich were much more progressive, even for Bavaria.
@@Clyde_Donovan That's because large numbers of people living in those cities are not Bavarians, but people from elsewhere.
@@imrehundertwasser7094 Yet they're part of the votes in those towns. And having them helps quite a lot to fight back far-right-wing parties.
@@Clyde_Donovan Very conservative, yes. Some rural areas in Bavaria are still extremely Catholic.
It's just a shame that Die Linke has been voted out of the Hessian Landtag entirely, somewhat unexpected of such a liberal and progressive state
Die Linke is neither liberal nor progressive. Fortunately, they don't play any role in German politics.
It's because of Wagenknecht splitting the party.
@@kentknightofcaelin4537 and where is the second left but "without Wagenknecht" party that is able to get a one digit percentage at least? For real that person doesn't have much power in the party. Easy but questionable excuse.
@@kentknightofcaelin4537 Wageknecht's possible new party might split the AfD vote, at least in the old Bundesländer.
Mauerschützen and Stasis officials are getting out of fashion.
For those viewers that have questions regarding the Freie Wähler (Free Voters): In the radio a representative of the Free Voters was asked if it wouldn‘t be better if the CSU and the AfD formed the government and the Free Voters represented the opposition the answer was no because then the Green Party would have more to say in Bavarian politics. So, they‘d rather have fascists in power than the Green party. This is seriously messed up.
It doesn't sound like you presented their point in a fair way. They said the don't want the AFD in power and you turned it around and said that makes them pro AFD for some reason.
@@TheGoukarumaI doubt they really mean that. Please as if they wouldnt try getting Power even with the afd. They are not unlike each other. The most difference is they act like they are distance from afd politics and Not the same facists
The greens are as "intelligent" as the AfD, just with the polarity reversed :)
so yeah good outcome...
The green party was founded by people like Fischer, COhn-Bendit. They were personally involved with leftist terrorists (e.g. Hans Joachim Klein whose flight from authorities in France they financially supported). A gun used in a crime was found in Fischers car. Cohn Bendit propagated paedophilia in a published book (Der große Bazar). In 1989 they opposed the Wiedervereinigung, reunification and rejected the "annexation" of the GDR. An unequivocal violation of German Basic Law, now and at the time. This and many other good reasons for not wanting them in a position of power. I wouldn't even want them as teachers, judges, and kindergarten educators (with a view on Cohn-Bendit)
The federal government seems to be doing mistakes after missteps. No wonder the voters (especially in the states with conservative strongholds) are going to react.
There's also the CDU making more and more populist politics by the day, developing and driving on an anti-progressive movement that's just fueled by gut feelings.
Don't act like the voters actually know what they're doing.
If this man got into German politics and could get through with his opinions, these would be the results:
1. Unruled immigration plus instant democratic rights for every immigrant would very fast turn Germany into an Islamic state with the official language (by the way: now German only has the status of a working language) being Arabic.
2. 24-hour surveillance of any transaction by any citizen by cameras, cashfree payment systems, home office jobs and controlled e-mails. It would be declared illegal not to carry a smartphone with oneself when leaving home.
3. Public transportation systems would be replaced by cheap collector taxis as a safer option.
4. Eventually immigration would become emigration as the industry will have crumbled under the pressure to be likewise carbon-free and to pay for the party (high taxes). Rewboss, too, will emigrate as he has dual citizenship for his own safety.
That's a very weird set of assumptions about me.
1. No. I'm not petrified of foreigners coming into the country (especially since I am one) but I have no problem with sensible safeguards, and I am not in favour of just handing out citizenships to anyone who wants one.
2. I don't know where you get that idea from, since I have often spoken out against surveillance and over-reliance on technology that can be used to track people.
3. Again, that is the absolute opposite of what I believe. I even have a UA-cam video arguing in favour of traditional timetabled buses and against replacing them with on-demand services.
4. I don't see how transitioning away from an economy based on fossil fuels to one based on renewable energy would destroy industry. We successfully transitioned from an agrarian economy to an industrial one, this is just making changes to the industry. I think it would be a sensible strategy to be at the forefront of developing new technologies as a way to future-proof our industry. We've already seen how vulnerable our economy is to fluctuations in the price of oil -- if, for example, we have vast untapped reserves of geothermal energy in our own country (an actual thing that experts are looking into), why not use that instead? Way more reliable, much cheaper, and doesn't involve pumping poisonous gases and smoke into the air we need to breathe to stay alive.
"Voters are very unhappy" is an understatement.
German voters are so furious at the current government they're literally willing to go back to 1933. I don't think I have to say how horribly that went out last time for Europe and the World.
the thing is, much of that unhappiness has to do with smut campaigns made by the Springer Group (Bild, Welt etc) and CDU/CSU and FDP campaigning. Ironicly the FDP is running a hard line opposition from inside the government and gets a brutal ratio by the electorate, kicking them out of another Landtag and the estimates for their federal % is dropping fast towards the 5%.
FDP and Union are bleeding off voters to the AfD, Greens and SPD loose voters to non voters. Its a shitshow coming from the right wing of the Union and the FDP
A bit exaggerated, no?
@@holygooffJust a little bit ;-)
Happy for the AFD, they deserve their results.
I could think of a lot of things that party derserves. Votes are none of them.
@@FeinesFabi so don't vote for them if you feel that way, and let others do what they consider right.
@@HelmutQ If only AfD voters were affected by AfD policies, that attitude would make sense. But unfortunately I have to live with the damage they do whether I vote for them or not.
@@HeadsFullOfEyeballs I can say the same about the Green party and their politics.
@@HelmutQ Well, that is part of the democracy I'm trying to protect. If you feel like that party is acting on your best interest please do vote for them.
I'm just saying that they (imho) do not deserve your vote. It's a party for people who think of themselves first. People how strugle with changes in their life caused by 3rd parties (such as Corona, the war against Ukraine, global warming, ...). To put it in perspective with the words of Albert Einstein: The measurment of intelligence is the ability to change.
Voting for fascists - a German classic brought to you by Bavaria and Hesse
I voted not this time as I was and still am out of the country. My friends who are both germans AND people with migration backgrounds like myself voted AFD.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot…
What?
What? Why? What are their reasons?
@@Narethian low intellect
Citizens with migration backgrounds can also be Germans. :)
Aiwanger is the most authentic one of all these politicians, and people feel that he really cares for their problems. That's why they vote for him. And if some scandalmongers from the political left and certain newspapers actively try to push him out of politics (THAT is what really happened), they double down and tell themselves NOW they'll definitely vote for him. Which is also what happened.
So anti semitic flyers are ok?
@@Canleaf08 Imagine caring what a teenager did 35 years ago.
@@TheZett What his brother did*
@@TheZett es geht darum wie irrespektabel er damit umgeht
I think the main parties in Germany might want to work to find legal ways to prohibit right wing candidates. It's working quite well in the USA.
Its working even better in North Corea.
I mean there is this whole system with banning parties. But that obviously and for good reason isnt something easily executed. rewboss actually made a video about that recently. I recommend watching it, its quite informative
There have been no signs for that. It's not a two party situation, money doesn't play that big role, TV debate doesn't play a big role, and electoral district haven't been reassigned to encourage special results. There are not much parallels.
I am sorry? How is it working well in the us? Your whole republican Party is afd Level.
german law allows and demands the prohibition of parties that intend to overthrow the democratic order.
The AfD is a case for this.
You may not have approved of Aiwanger's reaction, but it was a success at least operationally. He got an enormous totally unexpected boost in the last couple of weeks and stayed in front of the AfD in his victim role. If you measure success by ballots, yes it was a success. People were very pissed off with a social democratic teacher in pension who kept a 17 years old's confiscated leaflet in his private dossier at his home and pass it to the press 35 years later when it became convenient. And incredible breach of confidence between teacher and pupil. That is how Bavarians think about it, irrespective of what was written on the infantile leaflet. Doubtlessly a criminal act by a scumbag and the press in particular the SZ did not look good. Looks like Stasi walks like Stasi, smells like Stasi, and probably it is not a duck. Nobody, not even the losers denied that their disastrous results were really produced in Berlin and not locally. The FDP is now in a position to turn the tables. Either carry the responsibility for the desaster and ultimately being voted out of Landtag after Landtag or force new general elections and survive slightly above 5% for this bravery. Kubicikis's allusions go into this direction.