That is the best result for the far-right party so far in these surveys, held regularly among eligible voters, Infratest dimap said of the Deutschlandtrend poll.

  • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    13 days ago

    A time honored tradition of Germany, America, and soon (again) the UK to all turn hard to the right when things get a little tough. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s been an honor to live in such a stable world comparatively to what we’re getting ourselves into going forward. Good luck and be prepared.

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    13 days ago

    I haven‘t read any news on Lemmy about the far right not winning any district, nor having a single mayor in the last elections in NRW. All I read here is their Inevitable rise and how hopeless it is even when it isn‘t.

    In fact the far right have surprisingly little seats anywhere but the Bundestag. You would think a party with 15% to 20% of the votes would have around 15% of the districts under their control by now but they‘re almost nowhere.

    This is not normal and shows how easily voters can be swayed to vote rightwing extremists in today‘s shitshow of a media landscape. But it also shows how little support they have when it actually comes to following up on your threats. They parade around yelling their lies and hate speech but when you give them the slightest bit of resistance they crumble and fumble and can‘t sleep at night.

    Keep resisting and don‘t let them dominate the media landscape. Neo nazis these days are mostly smoke and mirrors. They put on a show and play pretend. Don‘t let them.

    • Don Piano@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      I don’t think you should expect that the average proportion of votes should correspond to the expected number of won chunks. This is a known property of first past the post electoral systems, which mayoral elections approximate.

      There’s slightly over 2000 cities and towns in Germany. If there was a party that gets 1% of the votes, you would not expect them to get 20ish mayoral seats, without further information about clustering of voters, you’d rather expect them to be somewhat homogeneous in their losses (because of the mechanisms that cause the low popularity presumably (!) applying everywhere; if the 1% of voters were all coming from the same place because it’s a hyperregional party for example, that would possibly change).

      Now, sadly, there’s a bit of clustering going on and that makes fascist mayors more likely, but I guess other than that, one possible conclusion here is: Fascist voters are everywhere, so whatever mechanism is behind their etiology, it applies all over the place.

      The media landscape and dominant politics feeding into what feeds fascists is a “likely” candidate here. Scare quotes because, like, cmon. :| Friede, Fritze…

  • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.orgEnglish
    7·
    13 days ago

    Polls suck and make the far right look better than they are. The AfD recently lost every runoff they were able to qualify for. That should make more instant headlines than the n-th poll result.