Servais@dormi.zone to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 24 days ago2024 European Parliament election in Germanyfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareBarbarian@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoImo, it moreso proves that poverty causes desperation, desperation causes people to be way more susceptible to political extremism. I don’t think this has anything to do with the GDR except for the fact that it left east Germany in poverty.
minus-squarerotkehle@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·24 days agoif you’re driving through East German cities you know why they’re voting populist right wing parties. there’s no work, poverty and half of the houses are empty because a lot of the people already left.
minus-squaregeissi@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·22 days agoThat’s half the explanation. The economic and social decline makes people susceptible to populists. But the other half is this: They’re not the only populists. To vote for outright, obvious Neo-Nazis you also have to ok with Neo-Nazis.
Imo, it moreso proves that poverty causes desperation, desperation causes people to be way more susceptible to political extremism.
I don’t think this has anything to do with the GDR except for the fact that it left east Germany in poverty.
if you’re driving through East German cities you know why they’re voting populist right wing parties. there’s no work, poverty and half of the houses are empty because a lot of the people already left.
That’s half the explanation.
The economic and social decline makes people susceptible to populists.
But the other half is this:
They’re not the only populists.
To vote for outright, obvious Neo-Nazis you also have to ok with Neo-Nazis.