Why can’t Germany freely elect any party it wants, even AfD, in a democracy?

[Anonymous]

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Is AfD similar to reform Nigel Farage? Or restore Britain People are tired of immigrationAnd wokeness?

[FreyaRed]

Because Germans aren't humans they are employees of a Bundes Republik Corporation. For them entire life is work, when and they die and get to hell like 99% of people, they consider this as holidays. But evil gods let them reborn as Germans again and again, it's eternal never ending forced labor.

I'm kidding. AfD is just controlled opposition and if they are capable to take the rudder they will automatically turn in slightly more brown CDU and forget everything they promised.

[msmissydc]

We can. They do exactly that at the moment. Being democratically voted into power just doesn't mean to support the democracy. I would just love to make it to the full 100 years before we get a right wing extremists government again.

[Iron_Man]

Hello, are you German?

[msmissydc]

Yeah.

[Iron_Man]

Cool👍🏻

[Asker]

Why such outcry about AfD

That's policies the people want
They are therefore valid?
We might not agree but that's democracy?
He's right wing but he's not Nazi?

[msmissydc]

Yeah, they aren't nazis just neofascists. If your read their actual program thats not what the people that vote for them want. Just the point of hatred towards others is what people want. Maybe not the whole party and not all voters but enough of them to make it count aren't democratic. They have multiple cases of anti democratic behavior and a lot of them actually liked the nazis or at least think the nazis did nothing wrong. I am talking about high ranking party members, not random people.
During their party get together there have been multiple accounts of nazis salutes. And than there are the multiple cases of russian spies in their ranks. They dont like germany, they hate it. They dont want germany to make progress just gains for themselve and most of what the party actually does it contrary to what the people that vote for them want.

[Asker]

We all have our biases
I not sure it's fair that you're actually these voters about that they are voting for
But I'm not German
I know very little about the situation

I thought it was about immigration
There are forces mobilizing against each other
It might but be fair to accuse the party you dislike of being totally bad

[msmissydc]

I tried to find one good thing about them. Their voters have tried to convince me about one good thing about it in addition to that the party does what they want and they failed. Not because of me not being convinced, but because of missing factual arguments, the few that tried to bring an actual argument I could easily refute by citing their own party program, that I know better than 95% of their voters. I actually read it because "know your enemies" they haven't because they blindly believe in what is being told to them, which ironically is the same thing they claim other people do. That all beside the fact that I disagree with their politics. Purely based On the discrepency between the official party program and Why voters vote for them.

[Asker]

Ah hidden agenda
Reform is a bit like that
Different stories depending who they are talking to

And Trump obviously doesn't spell out his agenda
It's kinda veiled
And Elon musk doing the Nazi salute 🙂

[msmissydc]

Its not even a hidden agenda. You can read it in their party program.

[NaultD]

People have a long memory. It's haunting like a ghost.

https://youtu.be/Et7zq7QLCfk?is=N6YX491-PFaGir8h

[strateguy632]

germany can and did. the AfD captured more than 44% of the vote in the eastern state of Saxony

[purplepoppy]

They can but they must also accept the consequences. A lot of countries are going to think twice about trading with Nazis.

[Asker]

Hold on
Right wing exists in every country
Are they all Nazis?
Tommy Robinson
Danny Thomas
Presumably in Germany they are also entitled to vote for whoever they want

[Asker]

When merz says he needs to do something
That's like suggesting AfD is not a valid choice
Like his own party is valid
And do is AfD?

Or does he mean that if he had chosen better policies
Listened better to voters
The result would be different?
And now the answer is to change cdu policies because voters want something different?

[Abbycado]

For the same reason Trump is trying to hamstring the other party.

He says mail in ballots are corrupt, then does it himself.

[exitseven]

I thought I saw that a far right party was just elected

[Asker]

Clever boy 🙂

[lilBigPotato]

They can and they did 🤷‍♀️

[Asker]

Haha
Ai modified my question
I guess
Why such outcry?
And Merz acting like he needs to stamp it out🙂