Today, German lawmakers are rewriting bylaws and pushing for constitutional amendments to ensure courts and state parliaments can provide checks against a future, more powerful AfD. Some have even launched a campaign to ban the AfD altogether.

You see, democracy is when...

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 8 months ago

Are you surprised that the country that ushered the Nazis into power is more vigilant about making sure they never head remotely in that direction again?

Even the party’s leader resigned in 2022 because he saw that the party was becoming more totalitarian and incompatible with German democracy.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 12 points 8 months ago

You see, we call it Wehrhafte Demokratie. According to Wikipedia this can be translated as battlesome democracy, though I find that clunky.

The entire idea of our constitution is to keep a democracy, we even have a constitutional right to disobedience, if democracy is threatened.

The constitution is deliberately very open, but there's one thing that's non-negotiable: FDGO, liberal-democratic basic order. If you're operating outside of that, you're not supposed to be part of the political landscape.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

L take. AES countries which are actual democracies do the same thing.

Though of course, banning it isn't gonna go anywhere for Germany unless they tackle the root cause of capitalism.