So wahr

The Votes they get are comming directly from the missmanagement and straight up fraud from the other parties.
Thus only the major parties and state paid protest actors are at fault, hitting on that party instead of acting against the real problems that cause all this mess.

Strongly disagree and to be honest as much as I despise the AFD I am getting more and more frustrated with Germans pretending that 20% of our voters are Nazis. If you want to know why the AFD is so popular take a look at the last Bundestag and on both sides. I myself have voted CDU/FDP, SPD/FDP & SPD/Grüne in the past and ALL of these parties have been utter desasters in their own way. I could write pages of disappointment about each single party and then people are surprised that our young generation as well as frustrated voters flee to the extreme ends on the left and right. That btw is the only similarity to the Weimar Republic I can see but unlike back in the day where the reason for it was a faulty voting system as well as external factors (financial crisis and the treaty of Versailles) most of these problems are self made by these parties.

I‘ll be honest: As an academic with big interest in History I could for obvious reasons never vote for either Afd, BSW or Linke BUT I‘d be lying if I haven’t thought about it once or twice given how frustrated I myself grew with our political landscape. How can we fault our young people and people from the working class who are less educated for feeling the same and going through with these votes? And in my opinion stigmatising these people now is not gonna help us but further the divide, I do not want the country to become the next united states. Yes 5% of voters are as right as they come and actively attack our democracy the other 15% especially in the case of our young voters are voters frustrated with the established political landscape.

They have potential to cry like US Federal workers who voted for Trump and fired by Musk 🙂