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Filtering the narrative-tone out, we have a choice-quote from your links: Nuff said on that. Maybe something for folk to mull over. Agree on return to on-topic. Cheers @davek and co for a robust to and fro x

...of Thüringen (a region of 2m people) because Merkel put pressure on his party via her much more powerful CDU. The official reason is because AfD members voted for Kemerich rather than their own candidate as he had an actual chance of winning (Kemerich is Right-of-Centre, and specifically...

Why? Source? And for argument's sake let's say it is so...why "sadly" ? Which declared policies and from which party do you find so sad? So many treat Left-vs-Right like football teams. Far-Right is like a Liverpool FC with 11 John Aldridges. Sauce? And if they're only gaining fringe...

...just defended by German goalies. No, they don't. In my earlier posts i said why they don't. You'd do well to tackle them. See above. AfD is not far-right. It's narratively-portrayed as far-right by a worried establishment. See previous comments for detail on this. Feel free to discuss...

...don't have a foothold. They're also not in government, regional or otherwise. They are the parliamentary opposition party, so it's fine to say AfD generally have a foothold in German politics. But you didn't say that, you said "far-right neo-nazis" have a foothold. I've demonstrated your...

...it as a "far-right neo-nazi" protest, and thus many outsiders will know it as such. The media also latched onto comments by a couple of AfD members and artificially-conflated them to mean AfD support neo-nazi sentiments. Those AfD members merely stated that the protests (note: not the...

Exactly. I live here, and regularly visit places in Sachsen too. There is no magnet. There is no significant far-right neo-nazi scene. It's a bogeyman. Source?

...demo. They do exist (as much as the law permits), but are insignificant. The 'far-right', or 'neo-nazi', has become a mythical bogeyman. AfD (most popular party in old DDR, and kryptonite for all other parties) are often renounced as a far-right nazi party, but have merely traditional...

just to address the link you posted: this concerns an alleged incident in 2018 where 5 or 6 members of a group-visit organised by AFD openly questioned the evidence of certain sites or aspects of the Holocaust. No further proof nor allegations were made. AFD do not allow Holocaust-deniers...

...overstating the threat isn't a bad thing if it keeps that threat at bay, but one negative aspect i've seen concerns an open demonisation of AFD-voters (UKIP-similar party). I firmly believe modern identity-politics - which lead to wokeism & CRT - also finding its way to Germany has played a...

...Classic divide & conquer. The "bear" being poked in this case are the elections. Boris winning, Brexit winning, Le Pen looking strong. AFD quickly growing to become the main opposition party. Trump gaining over 13m more votes than last time. Only an astonishing 81m haul managed to beat...

...within stone's throw opening up and thankfully not yet having any big issues, from either side. An actual nazi? Nowhere to be seen. Even AFD are chased out of town. Yet here I've experienced arab-blokes driving on pavements towards me with my boy in the pushchair, then aggressively jumping...

...much like in US where Trump-voters feel uneasy outing themselves amongst 'liberal' folk. Or in Germany where there is an open-campaign to banish AFD-voters out of society (seen this with my own eyes...i'm an FDP-man myself but this didn't sit right with me). Something is profoundly wrong...

The Islam-in-Germany topic is a very complex one, unfortunately it can get ugly very quickly as one side screams racist nazi! while some on the other side do actually get racist about it, which rightly renders whatever argument they have null and void. But in the fair middle there's plenty of...

and further to my response above, there's also considering the AfD. For the Bundestagswahl 2017 5.3m voted for them as first-choice, and 5.8m as 2nd-choice. That's effectively over 11 million individual voters who put AfD down as favoured choice. I know some of them personally. I take it you...

The AfD is a complex topic. I wouldn't like to derail this thread with it, but if you're interested here is a predictably anti-AfD piece in The Guardian and my direct reply to it (i'm an East-Berliner myself).

here in Germany the blue party is AfD...

...referendum put to the French or Germans, and there'd be a real risk of one or both those countries voting out (the newly-influential AfD party in Germany for example may support a Dexit referendum). Before it came to that, the EU would quickly require drastic EU reforms which would...

...loss of confidence among the voters, leaving the door open for this new centrist party to move up the field (as has happened in Germany with AfD, which contrary to media reports actually offer mostly centrist policies). In short, Corbyn must win the next election otherwise we can permanently...

...opponents as "nazis" is you end up with self-congratulatory liberal people supporting the it's ok to punch a nazi philosophy. In the real world, AfD pensioners get severely beaten unconscious by antifa louts, but that's ok because he's a 'nazi'. Dexit, and AfD, are gaining in support among...