Also I just want to again stress that in this very image you can clearly see that 75% of young men /did not/ vote AfD - ThreadSky

dov.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Also I just want to again stress that in this very image you can clearly see that 75% of young men /did not/ vote AfD

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?

Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

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lepaca.bsky.social•4 days ago

Well but 55% voted for right wing parties... Sure "only" 25% voted for the Nazis but still, there is a big problem here

shadowhedgie8.bsky.social•4 days ago

There's a lot to be criticised about the CDU/CSU but they explicitly promised not to bring the AfD into government and their voters heard that message loud and clear.

lepaca.bsky.social•4 days ago

While adopting a shit town of the afd positions. Amazing! Meanwhile the AfD still doubled its vote share.

lepaca.bsky.social•4 days ago

They will redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich. They will do law and order type racist shit. They will go after lgbtq folks.

Meanwhile they will bleed more voters to the AFD because they over promised on insane right wing shit (mass deportation).

You gotta hand nothing to these shits.

dov.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm not gonna lie, this is a ridiculous metric for "democratic emergency."

dov.bsky.social•4 days ago

If my country was at risk of ending democracy every time a /narrow majority/ of the youth voted for /any/ party of the right, then we would have collapsed thirty years ago. Be serious.

lepaca.bsky.social•4 days ago

The problems on the table here are not only "the end of democracy" (although right wing parties in power always hollow out democracies), it's about the fact that too many young men are drawn to dangerous, misanthropic ideologies of hate.

dov.bsky.social•4 days ago

It is bewilderingly silly to say that this is what motivates most CDU-CSU voters.

enigmasystem03.bsky.social•3 days ago

For young people voting CDU/CSU (which is what this graph is showing? I mean, not to be too blunt, but the rest of their platform is just shitting on young people in various ways, so yeah, the racism is probably a major motivator here

dov.bsky.social•4 days ago

I cannot help but suspect you are projecting some other country's politics onto Germany here.

lepaca.bsky.social•4 days ago

What do you think motivates them besides a racist desire to project their anxieties on minorities and progressive politics?

thewanderingjew.bsky.social•4 days ago

Media loves the far right is the simplest explanation for so much shit

enigmasystem03.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yup. And love can mean various things! There's media that supports the far-right because they agree with all that shit, there's some which loves the promise of kickbacks and access for loyal supporters, and there's some that just loves all the drama and discourse created. But all of it helps lead to

enigmasystem03.bsky.social•4 days ago

the sort of results we're seeing nowadays. (this, incidentally, applies to basically all media, legacy, online, social, etc)

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