Not smugposting. Shit sucks. :(
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The German results are more like the US in 2004. If they are headed to the same fate they are 20 years behind us.
They are two completely different countries, with completely different histories.
Indeed. In many other ways Germany is 200 years ahead of the USA.
I wonder if America survives this, the experience of Fascists first-hand might galvonize us against it like it did Germany... That said, the fact they have a resurgence in Germany is more than a little concerning.
We didn't learn our lesson after Nixon, Regan, Bush Jr. Or trump first term.
I see no reason to hope that will change. The Democratic party operates more like a ratchet than a true alternative. The Republicans lurch us to the right and the Democrats ratchet is back a bit to the left and pat themselves on the back.
More worryingly, it’s not just Germany.
It is every country where Russia spread propaganda and misinformation
Thats not at all how politics and fascism works. Germany is not isolated from the rest of the world and in some time capsule. It's definitely not "like the US in 2004" because we're living in 2025. And it's not just AFD. Even the greens are fear mongering over immigrants. Germany wasn't somehow isolated from the rise in islamophbia since 2001. They have been a major part of that and are talking about Muslims like they are Jews in 1930s Germany.
Fascism doesn't have a 20 year lag. It very often arises in major world powers at the same time. This is due to it being a defensive response of the capitalist class in class conflict. What is happening in the US is also happening in Germany.
The parallels are stark, but the German results are less worrying to me than the American.
Maybe I will be wrong in a month or a year, but so far the Germans are in the "unhappy with the system, try the other major party" stage rather than the "burn it all down and give it to the strongman" stage we find ourselves in here in America.