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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

This is misleading and not supported by polls.

It is true that there has been a shift in traditionally more left leaning young voters towards the AfD, but that just means than they don't poll worse anymore that they do in the general public accross all age groups.

[–] a887dcd7a@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Also this is Saxony, a far right castle. There are 15 other states. A little hasty to use this as interpolation for whole country.

But sad truth to be told, the AfD engages younger folks on social media quite effectively.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is the exit polling result of the 2024 state election in Saxony, where the AfD came in a close second to the CDU. (31,9 % CDU, 30,6% AfD)

It is pretty even with a slope towards older people until the group 70+ where there is a much lower result.

Of course this is specific to the Saxony state elections, but this is consistent with what you hear from polls which include age ranges. Unfortunately news articles often just focus on one specific age group instead of covering all of them.

In this particular case it is also important to look at Germanys demographics.

https://service.destatis.de/bevoelkerungspyramide/index.html

Basically you can say that young voters are an ever decreasing number of people, with the boomers and gen x making up the largest demographics. So even if the AfD is getting more popular among younger people, the typical AfD voter will be 50-69 and male.

[–] voodoocode@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] a887dcd7a@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The title is missing context in eastern Germany the AfD won the U18 elections, but these are also the states where they are lead8ng. In west Germany the SPD (self proclaimed social democrats that have 0 backbone and that dont really do anything) and the leftist party were leading.

There is nothing in this story that reflects the headline. It's pure guesswork.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Destroy the education and the cattle comes out to the pasture

Not only that, the cattle will even elect their own butcher.