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How AfD is winning in the polls and could even govern ALONE in Saxony Anhalt and its plans for the schools curriculum (www.youtube.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51446344

Next Sunday, September 6th, state elections will be held in Saxony-Anhalt. All eyes are on one party in particular: the AfD. Not only could it become the largest party with 42% of the vote, but due to Germany’s electoral system, it might even be able to govern alone. The other parties will probably get about as many votes together as the AfD alone. Security services in the state classify the AfD as extreme-right. And the party plans to implement its ideology in schools, since education is a state responsibility. They intend to make significant changes there. They want to make it less "woke" and more patriotic. For example,

  • the party wants separate schools for disabled children and refugees.
  • In history, less attention to the Holocaust and more to Bismarck.
  • politics banned from classrooms.
  • No rainbow flag, but the national flag in the schoolyard.
  • No more anti-racism programs.
  • And Russian becomes a compulsory subject.

If they end up governing, you also have to realize that they can adjust the education system for all pupils in that state in a way that suits their agenda, and that they can use it very effectively to position themselves.

The AfD's lead candidate surrounds himself with figures from a banned neo-Nazi youth organization and Identitarian movement. Party officials have been seen attending Putin's birthday at the Russian embassy in Berlin. If they win and govern in that state, they immediately get access to all documents from the German security services. And that is causing enormous concern for the German government. Because that way, Russia gets to look along via the AfD into all kinds of documents that you really don't want Russia to have sight of.

Germany is also afraid that AfD will use this as a pilot project on a small scale to see what scores well and use that nationally. Combined with the fact that they are already the largest party in the polls, and a chancellor who is becoming less popular by the day... Germany is extremely worried about this.

An attempt to coup German parliament already happened 3 years ago by a group who wants the german empire back. One of the supporters was Birgit Malsack-Winkemann served as AfD member in the Bundestag, now awaiting her trial in prison... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWLsNM9anq8

Their mass manipulation and disinformation seems to work on Germans. How is this possible in gods name? They say: "If I had known that democracy required this much effort... and came with so many compromises, I would not have wanted democracy." You can see from surveys like the Sachsen-Monitor and the Deutschland-Monitor that more and more people would prefer a single-party system or one strong hand that takes care of everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE2OKiXJaxA Shows why poverty leads to extremism and why we learned we need a social welfare state to avoid it. Apparently we didnt put it into practics too well perhaps...

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[–] saimen@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

An attempt to coup German parliament already happened 3 years ago by a group who wants the german empire back. One of the supporters was Birgit Malsack-Winkemann served as AfD member in the Bundestag, now awaiting her trial in prison... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWLsNM9anq8

I (and everyone else it seems) already forgot about this.