German Elections & Politics

[PresidentSamTilden]

So is AfD likely to continue to grow nationally? Do they have a realistic ceiling?

Also...Why have they adopted a Climate denial platform? I would have thought something like that would get laughed out of parliament in a European country. Very unfortunate to see them doing well, especially in a country that's been successful with emissions cuts. Do people blame those for the slow economy or something?

[PresidentSamTilden]

Yeah, that is pretty interesting. I guess at heart most people are environmentalists somewhat, nobody really wants to see their community park replaced with a big, polluting coal power plant. Maybe that appealing to that attitude can convince more people? Either way, hopefully these groups don't end up running any governments.

[PresidentSamTilden]

These groups? Radical right-wing parties are currently in government in Switzerland, Norway and Finland, they are necessary to sustain the current Danish government (and all Danish governments between 2001 and 2011), they were necessary to sustain the previous Dutch government, and they were in government in the Netherlands, Italy and Austria too.

Jeez, that's kinda frightening. Sort of strange to have these groups in power while their countries are part of the evil globalist European union, right?