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In Germany, members of the far right party and a few right wingers from the conservative party are openly discussing deporting foreigners, brown people with German citizenship and native Germans that aren't in line to "somewhere in North Africa".
The far right are polling at 30% in a few states. It's the 1920s all over again.
Add in a looming depression, an ineffectual, infighting government with weak leadership and a conservative opposition that would rather help literally nazis to power than stop demonizing the Greens (which has become the new enemy as the actual radical left is more aligned with the right than ever). Yep, it's pretty much the same situation as it was shortly before Hitler rose to power.
How long has that been building? I've heard this before, but I had thought Germany was doing really well politically and economically even just a year or two ago.
For a while. Ten years maybe? The far right never left, there's always 10% actual, racist people that want to live in a system with a strong leader and favouritism for the ingroup. But more and more people feel left out from the gains that increased productivity brings and THOSE are an easy catch for the former.
The problem started earlier though. At the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 28, 2005, the then German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said: "We must and we have liberalized our labor market. We have built up one of the best low-wage sectors there is in Europe."
The fucker was proud of that. And while that sorta worked for a while, of course all the people employed in that low-wage sector are hit the hardest by rising price levels and stagnating pay.
Interesting. I hadn't heard any of that. Thanks for the reply.