The far-right Europe of Sovereign Nations could lose its funding and its right to be a political party.
    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
      154·
      9 days ago

      If you think this is going to solve anything about the discontent AfD voters express by voting AfD… you have another thing coming. The AfD is a symptom. Ban the AfD (which this decison does not do) and the discontent will emerge elsewhere. Not in votes for SPD or CDU.

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
          61·
          9 days ago

          No doubt. That said we (many of our societies) like treating symptoms alone and hoping they don’t recur.

          • Jiral@lemmy.orgEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            I think your analogy is misleading. A look at Austria with a longer history of right populism shows that success and failure does not correlate well with supposed causes. If the correlation is so poor, it can’t be only a symptome.

      • SapphireSphinx@feddit.orgEnglish
        10·
        8 days ago

        and the discontent will emerge elsewhere. Not in votes for SPD or CDU.

        So what? People are allowed to express their discontent, and votes for the SPD, CDU, or CSU should not be the goal. The discontent must be channeled through a vote within constitutional boundaries though. There are numerous alternatives that do not involve voting for literal Nazis, a new party, Freie Wähler, …

        Additionally, why should my tax euros fund a party, such as the AfD, which endangers the well-being of many Germans and views those who do not meet its narrow definition of German identity as unworthy? [Edit:] We already experienced that. Jews, Roma, Slavs, disabled people, … where considered unworthy only 90 years ago. I do not need to repeat that.

      • Jiral@lemmy.orgEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Is Wiederbetätigung also just a symptome and making it illegal is counter productive? If not. what makes it different?

  • daw@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    8 days ago

    This is not about the afd. This is about the ESN European level party, not the ESN faction in the parliament.