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2026-09-07 Europe
Right-wing AfD party notches historic win in Germany: ‘We are going to see explosive growth’ (if AfD is permitted to form a government)
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Posted by Frank G 2026-09-07 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [380 views ]  Top
 File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants 

1 German far right? Surely this will not end in Juden raus again.
First they came for the immigrants and I didn't stand up because I wasn't an immigrant.
We all know the rest of the poem.
Posted by Clyde Thaviling6482 2026-09-07 01:19||   2026-09-07 01:19|| Front Page Top

2 "... former member of the socialist Left Party ..."

The "Left Party" is the renamed SED, i,e. the Communist Party of East Germany that has never been dissolved or banned.

It is the organized hard core of a murderous dictatorial system that has slowly been regaining political power in unified Germany since 1994.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2026-09-07 02:07||   2026-09-07 02:07|| Front Page Top

3 More and More Germans Are Leaving Their Country
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-09-07 04:00||   2026-09-07 04:00|| Front Page Top

4  #1
The AfD is only far right if you are a Euro. The European Centrists tend to lean further left than the US Democratic Party. It is difficult to get an unbiased report on the AfD so I included the consensus view from Google AI:

Core Pillars of the Platform Anti-Immigration and "Remigration": Calls for stopping government spending on refugees, shutting the European Union's external borders, reintroducing permanent border controls, and enacting a "remigration" policy that aims to deport large numbers of foreigners, asylum seekers, and in radical proposals, individuals of non-German origin.

National Identity and Culture: Rejects multiculturalism and social diversity initiatives. It advocates for a "patriotic cultural policy", bans on symbols like rainbow flags in schools, and changes to school curricula to move away from what it calls a "guilt complex" regarding Germany's Nazi-era past.

Foreign Policy and the EU: Promotes Eurosceptic positions, opposes deeper European integration, advocates for lifting sanctions on Russia, and expresses a pro-Russian alignment.

Domestic and Social Restructuring: Proposes cutting state funding for pro-democracy and civic projects, abolishing or radically overhauling public broadcasting, and rolling back certain LGBTQ+ rights.

Islam and Religion: Seeks to restrict the influence of Islam, ban foreign funding for mosques, ban face coverings like the burka, and subject imams to state vetting procedures.

I have read in the past they don't want US bases in Germany.

Maybe some of our readers have better intel.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2026-09-07 09:58||   2026-09-07 09:58|| Front Page Top

5 Germans in general have mixed feelings about the bases. Symbol of being conquered, driving up prices, young soldiers being wild or American… but also they’re usually friendly, and they spend a lot in the local economy. Most of our bases were closed in the 1990s — at first the Germans cheered, then they started complaining about the significant financial loss. I know the rent on the house we lived in went down by half for the tenant who got it after we left in 1995.
Posted by trailing wife 2026-09-07 10:31||   2026-09-07 10:31|| Front Page Top

6 AfD election win in Germany sparks panic among EU leaders as Chancellor Merz reveals ‘shock’ and Macron allies call for 'coalition' to keep out hard right
Posted by Skidmark 2026-09-07 11:19||   2026-09-07 11:19|| Front Page Top

7 Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

The Solution, Bertolt Brecht
Posted by SteveS 2026-09-07 11:37||   2026-09-07 11:37|| Front Page Top

8 Antifa is marching, of course. Half of the marchers are silver haired — not thanks to artifice.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-09-07 13:54||   2026-09-07 13:54|| Front Page Top

9 The AfD has changed for the worse over the last five or six years.

This vote might be more of a protest vote against the established parties who are ruining the country, and maybe a vote for the former pro Western civ AfD of the late 2010s.

Large parts of the AfD now stand for an islamophilic, totalitarian oriental mysticism a la Dugin.

Statements by representatives of this powerful wing of the AfD re Israel or Iran are pretty much indistinguishable from the position of left wing social democrats or greens.

On the other hand, during the election campaign in Saxony-Anhalt, Merz' party, the CDU campaigned with a staunchly anti-Israel, pro islamocommunist comedian to attract anti-Western voters.

In a way the voters in Saxony-Anhalt got to choose between Tucker Carlson-1 and Tucker Carlson-2, the difference being that TC#2 also advocated for active economic suicide while TC#1 didn't.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2026-09-07 20:31||   2026-09-07 20:31|| Front Page Top

10 So like in England, it’s pretty much choice of the least worst option, as opposed to the more worst ones. And the traditional parties absolutely refuse to deal with the related problems of migrants and Moslem colonists.

Maybe that’s why Townhall published this today:

More and More Germans Are Leaving Their Country

Perhaps it’s time to invest in a holiday flat in Florida and offshore a financial nest egg against a sudden future need, while continuing to work toward improving the situation.
Posted by trailing wife 2026-09-07 21:55||   2026-09-07 21:55|| Front Page Top

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