Mainstream politicians express alarm while lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes congratulations from Elon Musk

Mainstream politicians around Europe have expressed alarm after the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) swept to a historic state election victory in Germany, while nationalist figures cheered the result as a mandate for change.

While falling just short of an absolute majority, the AfD surged into first place in the Saxony-Anhalt state election on Sunday, exit polls ⁠showed, putting the far right within reach ​of power at ‌the state level for ‌the first time since the second world war.

  • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml
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    Literally the start of left politics is anti-capitalist. Literally, liberals aren’t leftists.

    I recognize that “the left” in America is the democratic party. That’s a you problem.

    • UnequalExchange@lemmy.world
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      And thats kinda where the term ‘liberal’ comes from

      It means that they want to ‘LIBERALly restructure and readjust the capitalistic economy and societies so thst these ecoonomies and society favour them and their cronies’

      There has NEVER been a liberal ideology that has explicitly stated we shall destroy capitalism eternally. They always say ‘structurally readjust capitalism’

      Meanwhile the socialists and anarchists are the ONLY people who have ever said they want to eternally destroy capitalistic economids and societies to thst they favour the workers collectively or that they favour individual , loose communities .

      Anyone who calls themselves a ‘leftist’ but isnt an anarchist or socialist can EASILY be outed as a rightist with a. few questions. I have never encountered a single person that has proven that Im wrong about this. And I never will lol.

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      I’m not in America, never lived there, will never live there.

      Seriously, it’s like you guys insist on being unpopular and divisive, it almost (almost) looks like sabotage at this point.