cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/25151353
BERLIN, April 9 - Germany’s far-right AfD party topped a major poll for the first time on Wednesday in a sign of growing dissatisfaction with mainstream parties as chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz seeks to seal a coalition government deal.
Support for Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc, which won the February 23 election, fell by five percentage points to 24% while the Alternative for Germany (AfD) gained three points to land on 25%, according to the Ipsos institute’s poll.
The AfD came second in the election, the best performance by a far-right party since World War Two.
Not holding my breath.
Yeah, conservatives don’t understand how to move forwards and just like maintaining a status quo. Unfortunately, they have been in power so long that they control enough of the media outlets to influence the population to think that being progressive is a bad thing for the people. And they fuck the education system in such a way that people are easy to manipulate. What they didn’t factor in, just like encryption backdoors, is that other entities might be successful at manipulating people.
They did this in so many countries in Europe (and probably abroad), that the US started flexing their conservative muscles together with Russia and this is what we get.