Oh no, Germany, not again! You have already tried this, remember?
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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I think that's absolutely right. The fact that the far right is also on the rise in other countries should not distract from the special responsibility of German citizens. Especially since many AFD voters often use this as an argument: "If other countries are nationalistic, why shouldn't we be?"
We all have to do what we can, where we can. I am not saying Germans are any worse than any one else. Fascism is an ideology and can grow anywhere.
I was curious what that looks like on the American side.
26% of the U.S. population qualified as highly right-wing authoritarian, Morning Consult research found, twice the share of the No. 2 countries, Canada and Australia.
https://pro.morningconsult.com/trend-setters/global-right-wing-authoritarian-test
How original.
I thought it was. Sorry if it wasn't.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
This is the result of a study by a team at Bielefeld University commissioned by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, which is politically aligned with Germany's center-left Social Democratic Party.
Currently, across all age groups, between 5-7% of those surveyed support a dictatorship with a single strong party and leader for Germany.
Many people are racking their brains over how these developments can be stopped and turned around — including researcher Zick, who pointed out that we live in times in which appeals or improved welfare policies are only partially able to placate conflicts, dissatisfaction and protests.
"When people in the mainstream or center, who do not consider themselves right-wing extremist or organize as such, adopt attitudes from the right-wing-extremist fringes of society, then democracy is in danger."
It's against this backdrop that Zick sees the study as a part of the culture of remembrance in Germany, directly referencing the Nazi dictatorship of 1933 – 1945:
They called for isolation from the outside world and considered supposedly German values, virtues and duties to be essential to dealing with the crises.
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