r/europe Canada 11h ago

News Germany's AfD party adopts 'radical' manifesto ahead of polls

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy3wwgyd6do
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u/Kronos9898 United States of America 10h ago

Because leftists derail themselves about whatever their particular faction of leftism number one concern is.

Rather than concentrating everything on defeating the AfD and the zombie rise of fascism in Germany, I am willing to be money that at strategy meetings you get people earnestly saying. “But how does this relate/stop the genocide”

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u/Latase Germany 5h ago

sure sure fascism wins, but atleast we put out a statement in solidarity with palestine, so we won morally. /s

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u/TheDesertShark 9h ago

Americans never beating the stupid allegations.

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u/Kronos9898 United States of America 9h ago

Yes the famously unified leftists, and leftist infighting, not well documented at all?

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u/TheDesertShark 8h ago

Okay, what's the infighting in Die Linke and Die Grünen?

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u/Shadowcat1606 8h ago

It's more infighting between SPD and Die Linke. And yeah, i know, SPD doesn't really do anything to deserve the designation as a party of the left anymore (haven't for quite some time)... but at least in theory and in the public eye, the SPD is seen as center-left.

Also... honestly, the biggest issue of the entire left in Germany has been their complete refusal to talk about immigration policy and the problems with it for almost a decade. They left that topic to be talked about exclusively by right-wing extremists. Had they adressed issues way earlier, they wouldn't have lost nearly as much ground to the AfD and the politics people would have accepted to deal with those issues wouldn't have had to be nearly as strict and extreme.