What does it mean if a democracy bans a party that the voters want to elect? Better to ask what failure of the system made that party popular in the first place. We have a similar situation in the US fwiw.
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No need to play one off against the other. Yes, there are many things that need to change systemically. Yes, the AfD is a real danger and needs to be banned. Simple as that.
The paradox of tolerance. Parties that violate the social contract of mutual tolerance deserve to be banned.
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We had that situation in 1930s Germany and it was decided to address issues instead of banning Hitler’s Party even when they could.
There are other banned parties as well (such as the SRP, which was the new NSDAP basically), having large overlap with the AfD. It's not bad for democracy, if the requirements for banning are clear and enforced equally.
Better to ask what failure of the system made that party popular in the first place.
In the case of the US, it was propaganda by a hostile country, and by malefactors of great wealth whose interests aligned with that hostile country. In the former case, an act of war; in the latter, treason.
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entire AfD 'extremist'
No shit, sherlock, it doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
But having it said in an official capacity is still important.
Absolutely.
Have you even seen some of the mindblowing excuses people have for why MAGA people in USA are not necessarily extreme?
That it's for job security, or because of drug trade or all sorts of weird reasons that would absolutely be valid if they weren't based on falsehoods wrapped in fascism.
I'm actually quite surprised that the conclusion is that ALL of AfD are extremists. Maybe if USA had done the same with Trump, and he and his followers were concluded to be extremists, more would have been done to stop him?
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And what will Germany do about it? NOTHING!
They can mass spy on them now and get a valid legal reason to ban them with proof
Punch left as hard as possible.
It's been led than a day chill.
I'm not super hopeful either, but this is already more than I expected, so we'll see where things go
This is what we need to do with The Heritage Foundation and MAGA in the US. The extremes are usually bad whether they're left or right.
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