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Dave's avatar

This article is a great example of the German Thoroughness!

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Peter Dennett's avatar

This approach makes total sense. It also shows how bullied the Germans have been regarding right wing politics. My German wife cannot bring herself to support the AfD. Neither can her family. They see them as Nazis and will not vote for them.

Here is the kicker, none of them are actually looking at what they are offering. They do not even get a chance. I do think that if the German media were to be impartial as they should be, then you would see the share of the vote increase and possibly become the strongest party.

The bare-naked truth is that the German media has a strong bias to the SPD and the Greens and this makes the German media thoroughly "Anti-Democratic". The left has really over played their hand and in time, they will be seen in the harsh light that they deserve. It is no wonder that the SPD had their worst result in a hundred years.

Keep up the great work Joerg and I genuinely hope that you can bring back some stone-cold reality to a fantastic country that truly needs it.

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Fadi Sal's avatar

Though provoking, yet still ignores the risks of giving power to an antidemocratic and rather doubious bunch of right wingers. Germans have all the right to be wary of the Afd, even if some of their policies made sense and some of their politicians were just normal dudes and not literal fascists. Not to mention that what's written as political manifestos and what actually will be attempted to implement are typically two different things.

But ultimately I'll give you one thing, if the most likely future CDU/SPD government ends up gridlocked and impotent as the Ampel, then in 4 years it would be time to give the far right a chance, and simultaneously for most non-white foreigners to start packing up.

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Joe Sliva's avatar

Thanks for providing a whole new prospective on the upcoming coalition talks in Germany. This article deserves wide readership.

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Leslie Burton's avatar

Novel approach and interesting to know how Brentford do so well

Data better than finger in air

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