• MonkeyKhan@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    The chancellor's party is center-left in the typical European social democrat way, he himself is more of a moderate. But the current coalition polls at around 40%, so calling Germany very left-leaning is a very optimistic statement.

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        1 year ago

        According to current polls, more than 20% are willing to vote for an openly xenophobic, extreme right party of nazi-sympathizers, science deniers and reactionaries. They want to deny basic rights of queers and people with disabilities and call for ceasing to support Ukraine and dropping Russian sanctions. The currently strongest polling party, the center-right CDU, had for a long time been fundamentally opposed to working with the far right, but are now getting more cosy with them, seemingly testing the waters on local and state levels.

        So yeah, unless that somehow sounds like a good direction for Germany to move in, "left-leaning" would unfortunately be an optimistic misjudgement of the current state of affairs.

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          2/3rd of those 20% are protest votes, and a full 10% want the party banned. Things are a wee bit more complicated than a single number which is basically asking whether Ossis are severely pissed.

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            1 year ago

            People viewing Nazis as the lesser evil and willing to enable them are only moderately less worse than proper nazis and no less dangerous.

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              Protest votes is not "lesser evil" but "the party/parties I like fucked up and I want to scare them straight". Yes it's misguided, yes it's idiotic, but it would be wrong to dismiss those people as Nazis – they can be brought back quite easily. Also those are polls it would remain to be seen how many actually follow through.

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            1 year ago

            Protest voters willing to vote far right is not really making things better. I don't understand how people wanting to ban it are relevant…

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              Its making things better in the "are people merely pissed idiots or are they actual Nazis" sense. It also means that Wagenknecht can siphon off a gigantic amount of those votes with her new Nazbol thing.