Ryuu96 said:
What's up with Eastern Germany anyway? From an outside observation it looks as though there's still a huge divide between Eastern Germany and Western Germany, to the point where Eastern Germany is now voting in Nazi fuckers like the AFD. It's also Eastern Germany that is way more against Ukraine aid IIRC. |
Yeah, the German states which have been a part of East Germany (GDR) before the German reunification are always drawn much more to the extreme right and left and the left is always in bed with Russia... But now it's even worse because of the situation with Russia's war, the refugees situation the last 7 years or so and so on...that's all points the AfD is pushing hard especially on TikTok and the likes. Knife attack of a refugee here (who cares about the other hundreds of homicides a year who aren't from refugees), America bad there and so on...They understood how to use such media which the other parties are to dumb for. Clips which take just a few seconds in which you can talk crap and people will just eat it. And AfD is sadly also more drawn to Putin. If that wouldn't be the case and only the Left would be pro Putin, Scholz would me much harder on Russia.
It often feels as if the states in Eastern Germany build a completely different country. And the other parties start to shit their pants now so that they try to do at least some stuff to get those votes. Especially Scholz and his party lose hard everywhere and he still talks about how he wants to be the next Bundeskanzler as well so he's starting to be like "fuck some of Ukraine's territories if a super hard course on Putin will hurt me in Germany". His party is already on the ground so that I guess he expects to win more votes as he can still lose with a change in his politics.
There's also one bad news after the next about Germany's economy right now. It's not only the exploded prices but also that our economy is even shrinking. This obviously also pushes people away from the parties ruling right now.