Exit polls have the far-right AfD leading the Social Democrats in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Left Party ahead in Berlin. Merz referred to the outcome as “a disaster”. DW has more.
Exit polls have the far-right AfD leading the Social Democrats in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the Left Party ahead in Berlin. Merz referred to the outcome as “a disaster”. DW has more.
But…you don’t have to have it. Options are basically
or
Why choose the former?
Some people seem to believe it to be a zero-sum situation. In order for their life to improve, someone elses has to become worse. That’s why the hateful messages of the far right AFD fall on fertile ground.
This isn’t about logic - fascists don’t elect themselves by making people understand about what’s going on around them.
They elect themselves by telling lies on how they will improve things for you, while claiming the other side will/is doing the opposite, claiming them as untrustworthy, corrupt, or morally backwards despite being themselves the snakes in the house.
The predator never gets to eat when they show their teeth.
Life being shit also diminishes your ability to think rationally. And AfD does promise to make their life better (by getting rid of the immigrants), you and I know they are lying and spreading hate and are just there to enrich themselves. But to desperate people that can be their only hope.
my mama once told me, “pour hope in one hand and take a shit in the other, see which hand fills up faster.”
Propaganda, News Media telling you second option is literal hell, other parties picking up the talking point that someone else’s life is too good, so yours is bad and therefore legitimizing it. Some people are also just stupid.