Back in June, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party secured its first district council election win, despite the united stance of the other major parties against it. This victory sent shockwaves through the globalist establishment in Germany and signaled that a battle was to come. The AfD has been winning that battle, and causing panic among establishment globalists. In Pirna, Saxony in mid-December, in another major, historic victory, the AfD won its first mayoral election. By that time, its globalist opponents were foaming at the mouth trying to figure a way to end their own cycle of defeat, which has been brought on by their own failure in leadership.
The AfD is “currently predicted to win the state elections in Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia; and be on its way to state premiership.”
The AfD victory and its soaring popularity have been driven by frustration with open-door migration and other globalist policies, such as the extreme green agenda. Germans are also fed up with the nation’s ruined economy, which stems from bad economic policies. The people have had enough. And so now SPD leader Saskia Esken claims that “the people are shaken up” and that the AfD should be banned. It is a desperate Esken that’s shaken up.
The AfD’s globalist opponents — including the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution — are working overtime to brand the AfD as “extreme” and have it banned altogether.
Tarring legitimate opponents with unsubstantiated smears and then proceeding to ban them outright is straight from the communist playbook. It is a longstanding and predictable modus operandi of the left. However, given the growing support for the AfD, German globalists have a fight on their hands. AfD’s membership has grown sharply from 29,296 members at the end of 2022 to a current membership of 40,131.
AfD is not only branded by the ruling SPD as “extremist,” but also “Islamophobic.” The party “has been calling for a cut in aid and funding support for Palestinians since the October 7 Hamas attacks” and even “submitted parliamentary proposals to halt financial donations to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which were rejected.”
“Governing German Party Suggests Banning Populist Opposition AfD”, by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, January 3, 2024:
The leader of the left-wing Social Democrat Party (SPD) of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has suggested banning the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party amid the right-wing populist party’s surge in the polls.
SPD leader Saskia Esken said this week that an outright ban of the AfD should not be off the table to protect democracy, claiming that the party uses “every topic to incite people” which she said is “clearly anti-democratic”.
“Such a party ban is rightly subject to high hurdles. But I am convinced that we should keep reviewing it,” Esken told the German dpa news agency. “It is important that we talk about banning the AfD and that voters are shaken up.”
The left-wing leader’s comments come as the AfD has overtaken her party — which also happens to be the party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz — in the polls, with the AfD becoming the most-supported single party in the country and only lags behind the combination of the Christian Democrat Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), which given their strong partnership are typically counted in the polls together…
John Alder says
Mark Twain said that if voting made a difference they wouldn’t let us do it. This proves him right. If they don’t approve of who you vote for your vote shouldn’t count and your candidate or party shouldn’t be allowed to run for office. End result: A powder keg a pressure cooker situation that would get quite messy.
Ray Jarman says
This reminds me of the attack on President Trump and us MEGA type voters. Their moto is, “If you cannot beat them, ban them.” It certainly reminds me of the shenanigans orchestrated in Maine and Colorado.
David M says
It’s happening all around the world, they know they can’t beat conservatists at the polls, so they are trying to ban them. They have been doing the same thing to our free speech for years.
tim gallagher says
Go the AfD, go Wilders and the Le Pen, they are the only hope against the destruction of Europe by the Muslim invaders and their left fascist supporters. Letting this Muslim invasion occur is surely the dopiest and the most dangerous policy in the history of the entire western, ciivilised world. It is stupidity beyond my comprehension.
J Bryant says
Totally correct. This invasive intolerant culture will if not checked, change the shape and politics of Europe and the freedoms that are taken for granted. Eventually.
tim gallagher says
Yes, I am convinced that letting the Muslim enemy into our western countries is the dumbest thing ever. So many people in our societies know absolutely bugger all about islam’s foul content which is so full of hatred for all non-Muslims. Even if people hadn’t found out the foul content of the Koran, you would think that, by now, with all the Muslim terrorist attacks and rape gangs in western countries, most people would have woken up. Some people are just hopeless. Nothing seems to be able to wake them up. I keep thinking, are these dopey sleepwalkers ever going to wake up?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I would say that the Germans are a tad late in supporting AfD. Had they done it when Angela Merkel was in power, and not elected the Social Dems, which are really glorified communists from West Germany’s era, they’d not be in as ugly a position as they are in. Right now, the government, which is no longer a national unity government b/w the SDP and the CDU, but a Leftist one, would feel freer in doing to AfD what the Dems here are trying to do to Trump
Jack Reynolds says
IMMIGRATION will be the #1 issue throughout the WEst in 2024.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
And beyond
Jim says
“Tarring legitimate opponents with unsubstantiated smears and then proceeding to ban them outright is straight from the communist playbook.” – this is Germany, so it is more likely from Adolf Hitler’s playbook. Nazism is, after all, a variant of Marxism.
SteveM says
“bad economic policies” Emo Germans sanctioned Russia – you can never successfully sanction Russia it’s an autarky – has everything – you don’t. Even in hight of cold war Russia was never sanctioned. As such they pay 4x more for everything which makes Germany wholly uncompetitive with China (the other great manufacturer)
abu taleb says
The Nazi is back.
terry says
Failed leaders are ALL our world has know since the Bushes, Clinton’s, and Obama’s; there is NO good, decent, honest world ruler today, period. Xi leading the Marxist nations, the Mullahs and Sheiks leading the Islamist nations, the Nracxist nations, and of course, all the Globalist nations of the Elite rulers of the West- ” there is none good, no not one.”
James Lincoln says
There are exceptions, terry.
Viktor Orbán of Hungary, Pres. Trump when he was in office…
Scotsman48 says
islamism is the new nazism.
Jim says
They are just doing what the Democrats are doing to try to get Joe and other third rate political hacks elected. I was in Germany a few days ago and someone there told me the Germans imitate the Americans, and this is just another case. It would have been right to ban Hitler and the Nazis from the start, but the Republicans and Trump are not Hitler and the Nazis. The AfD is not Hitler and the Nazis.