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Honestly, as a foreigner I have a different view. Politics are incredibly right wing, there’s basically just Die Linke which is center left everything else is at least center right.
The current government can be considered right wing extremist in that they have one of the toughest anti-immigration stances in Europe and they actively ignore court orders on stopping border controls or the arrest warrant against Netanyahu, and they are having corruption scandals en masse.
Islamophobia is widely accepted, and there is a significant part of rural Germany where AFD (the neo-Nazis) are the strongest party. And if not then, it’s often CDU with similar levels of racism, etc. just not openly neo-Nazi. There’s a growing issue with neo-Nazi teenagers planning terror attacks, disrupting pride protests and just generally attacking and intimidating people of color.
The government doesn’t address this issue enough and rather tries to blame immigrants for homophobia or antisemitism. Anti-genocide protests are being framed as antisemitic by politicians and media and the Gaza genocide is being framed as a humanitarian catastrophe and they generally feel that Gazans had it coming. Police violence happens literally at almost every protest and rhe police had impunity when beating up and sending unarmed protesters, including kids to the hospital or to jail. Germans are staunch Zionists with their Staatsräson and even after almost 2 years are nowhere near coming around.
Germans will generally deny most if not all of this and say that things are fine (see the downvotes), but they really aren’t. Currently, Germany is still a fine place to live in tbh, that is if you live in big cities and especially not in eastern Germany, but the direction the county is going is very wrong and people are afraid that there might a government coalition including AFD in the next 4-8 years
Absolutely agree. I am a civil servant and my colleagues biggest fear is islam and foreigners.
Meanwhile i do not see our government take action against social injustice, the biggest driving force behind the growing discontent. Instead they blow into the same horn, blaming foreigners and the poor for our problems, the two groups least responsible.
It is really depressing as, just like u said, germany is still a good place to live right now but next elections scare me to death
I can second this.
I was at the queer march yesterday in Berlin. And the amount of attacks and intimidation the police did to the march was unbelievable. Whereas the march was one of the most peaceful demonstrations I have ever seen. All the people marginalised, gay, trans, queer, muslim, jew, arab, black, asian, standing in solidarity against discrimination and crimes against humanity.
The police has so much power in Germany that it feels like a fascist police state. Even more scary is that when I look at any kind of media, I see these demonstrations demonised. IE the only piece of news from this demo yesterday is that someone throwing a glass bottle to a police. Like wtf police stopped, beat and arrested the demonstrators tens of times yet this is the news?
I was there too! Witnessed police brutality although that’s sadly not surprising or shocking anymore but rather expected. Once I was filming and suddenly there was a bunch of cops blocking my way and kinda locking me in when I actually wanted to go out of the crowd. It was a very intimidating moment, people very mostly very peaceful but the cops made me feel really unsafe.