03-15-2016, 09:10 AM
(03-15-2016, 08:07 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: I have seen this some as well . But a protest vote is how these groups get into power. Heck Trump is basically a lot of people's protest vote.
The next step will be what happened in France. The other parties will fall on their own sword to elect one of them. Until the people just get fed up with the current policies.
Wonder what caused this shift in vote ......... Oh all the incidents with migrants. Germans are fed up.... And the numbers increase daily of those utilizing the protest vote.
The problem with this is that the CDU/CSU is a center-right party. So while some Germans are shifting to the right, a lot are shifting to the left as well. Also, and this is a part of the culture that some people don't know, is that nationalism in Germany is a big social no-no these days. What we would call patriotism would get you some awkward looks from your fellow Germans. This creates a different atmosphere than in other European countries and makes it hard to compare to, say France. French people will tell you they are proud to be French. You will not get the same response from Germans for the most part. So, with the AfD playing that nationalist card it will hurt them unless we see a culture shift in the German people as a whole, which I think would be very difficult.
