Bastian AllgeierThe leader of the German conservatives introduced the idea to collaborate with the far right AfD yesterday. He knows that he won’t get kicked out or replaced as the party leader. He will paddle back a bit after some backlash and that’s it. It doesn’t matter that he just meant on a community level either. The idea to collaborate with Nazis is now officially speakable without consequences. I feel sick!!
If you’ve read all about the downfall of the Weimarer Republic and the rise of the Third Reich and you’ve witnessed all the damage of WW2 in the world and you still reenact history as a power play, I actually think you are worse than the original Steigbügelhalter (stirr up holders)
This course is also pre-determined. You cannot take that path of approaching the far right voters step by step and then suddenly turn around. He will need to double-down, make more extreme claims and offers. There are dark times ahead for democracy.
K'Toche (aime le temps libre)@bastianallgeier I always thought I would flee to Germany if France was turning brown (now that France is turning brown?), But it no longer looks like the right solution. Freaking
@KToche it’s getting harder and harder in Europe to find a place without similar developments
Sara Joy 
@bastianallgeier @KToche Yeah, even Sweden has fallen :(
@sarajw @bastianallgeier yup, that was a surprise to me (but I'm not analyzing what's happening in Sweden, just reading what is "pushed" by people)
@KToche @bastianallgeier I guess what happened in Sweden could happen in Germany too, the far right party got big enough that the right-of-middle parties decided that they would work with them in coalition, after all. So then the rightmost bloc of parties came into power. Until then the Sweden Democrats had been ostracised, like AfD has been... but how long that'll last...