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> What exactly went wrong for this catastrophe to happen?

The AfD's only selling point is that they'll end immigration.

Here's what happened: 2.6 migrants coming to Germany in 2022 alone. Net migration into Germany in 2022: +1.4 million.

There are many germans (and many people in the EU) who don't like to see mass-migration from Africa and the middle east.

It's those who let that happen (and pushed for it) who are responsible for people voting for extremist political parties.

The same is happening in France and even Gabriel Attal (ex french prime minister) said France failed to control both its legal and illegal migration and that now he wants to only allow in migrants who are coming to actually work (Gabriel Attal is probably going to be a candidate to be the next french president).

You cannot look at the AfD and say "bad AfD" / "evil neo-nazis germans who voted for them" and not take a cold hard look at what happened with migration in the EU these last years.

Immigration in Saxony-Anhalt is the lowest in Germany, not that anyone cares.

And they just voted to keep it that way.

Hating people they don't know, based on second-hand testimonies.

Ask them their opinions about Jews, too.

>Hating people they don't know, based on second-hand testimonies.

Yes leftists are the least likely to know AfD supporters.

>Ask them their opinions about Jews, too.

The most openly antisemitic groups in Germany are leftists, so, I don't want to ask them about their awful opinions about the Jews.

> Yes leftists are the least likely to know AfD supporters.

Can you please tell us about your first-hand experience with AfD supporters?

> The most openly antisemitic groups in Germany are leftists, so, I don't want to ask them about their awful opinions about the Jews.

I think you meant to write "anti-Zionist" instead of "antisemitic."

Certainly the Jews don't think the AfD is their friend. https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2026-09-07/ty-arti...

>Can you please tell us about your first-hand experience with AfD supporters?

They showed up to vote in democratic elections whilst their opposition seemed to ban them.

>I think you meant to write "anti-Zionist" instead of "antisemitic."

No, I meant antisemitic.

>Certainly the Jews don't think the AfD is their friend.

Certaintly the Jews dont think DL is their friend when party leadership is leaving over antisemitism worries. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-825929

Have leftists voted to discriminate and get rid of the people born in Saxony-Anhalt?

In fact, which antisemitic leftists are close to governing anywhere in Germany right now? Have any antisemitic left party reached 44% of the vote anywhere?

And third question you will certainly answer without fail: which party wants to talk less about the Shoah and uses nazi slogans casually in its communication?

>Have leftists voted to discriminate and get rid of the people born in Saxony-Anhalt?

Yes.

>In fact, which antisemitic leftists are close to governing anywhere in Germany right now?

Hopefully none of them.

>Have any antisemitic left party reached 44% of the vote anywhere?

Thankfully not.

>And third question you will certainly answer without fail: which party wants to talk less about the Shoah and uses nazi slogans casually in its communication?

The leftist parties that have leadership leaving over antisemitic worries: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-825929

>There are many germans (and many people in the EU) who don't like to see mass-migration from Africa and the middle east.

And there are many Germans and others who don't like to see Jews in positions of power. Were the Weimar Republic centrist parties at fault for not "remigrating" Jews before the Nazis took power?

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