Mainstream politicians express alarm while lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes congratulations from Elon Musk

Mainstream politicians around Europe have expressed alarm after the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) swept to a historic state election victory in Germany, while nationalist figures cheered the result as a mandate for change.

While falling just short of an absolute majority, the AfD surged into first place in the Saxony-Anhalt state election on Sunday, exit polls ⁠showed, putting the far right within reach ​of power at ‌the state level for ‌the first time since the second world war.

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[–] 51 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

No they aren't. The liberals and conservatives are both being blamed because they are both part of the problem. 2 sides of the same coin.

Liberals are being assigned blame because they are worthy of blame.

Conservatives know they are to blame, telling them that does nothing. Liberals think they are helping the working class and at the very least are discomforted when confronted with the reality of their actions (sometimes).

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

    We don't have liberals or a two party system or whatever you have in the US.

    This dumb Propaganda shit on lemmy that the left is to blame for the fascism that people voted for really bores me by now.

    None of this is the lefts fault.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    I'm not American and you do have liberals, and liberals aren't the left.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (4 children)

    In the US, the neoliberals have held power over the Democrat party since Ronald Reagan was president in the 1980s. Liberal is shorthand for neoliberal and are considered left here. They are very much to blame for the current state of the US. They offshored jobs, busted unions, weakened education, and cut welfare programs to benefit the elites just like the conservatives have.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Surely liberal isn’t short for neoliberal.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    It is in american parlance. When you hear right-wingers rally against "liberals" they are talking about neoliberals. If they meant classical liberals they'd be talking about themselves.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago*

    It is in american parlance.

    no it is not. in common american parlance, "liberal" refers to the democratic party and is treated like a left-wing position. only leftists use "liberal" (well, "libs") to mean "neoliberal." the latter is obviously way more correct, but that doesn't mean the average person uses it that way, the average person is politically illiterate.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago

    Nah. You just don't understand how uneducated, indoctrinated, and mentally-ill American conservatives are.

    90+% of them absolutely have no fucking idea what the difference between a classical liberal or neoliberal is. Conservatives are closer to neoliberals than classical liberals. They don't care though, because they've been indoctrinated with the mental illness of fascism.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    But you also don't have any left at all, which doesn't help.

    Even fucking bsw has a point when calling die linke just another socdem party. And neither of these party is even doing well in the urns.

    From a French PoV, German politics are really cooked. Overton window is more right wing than us, and the votes are also more concentrated to the right.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    BSW should figure out who they even are before they sling any shit. They are putins Nazicommunist party and you need to mentally unwell to vote for them.

    I don't have a problem with the socialists going socdem because there is presumably a large gap there.

    The Socdems by name sold out more than 25 years ago.

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