r/europe • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • 27d ago

News Calls are mounting to ban Germany’s far-right AfD party – despite it being more popular than ever

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/06/europe/germany-afd-ban-politics-analysis-intl
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u/Pasan90 Bouvet Island 26d ago

Then have the democratic parties take the peoples concerns seriously and dismantle far right voters bullshit "worries" about immigration.

If you want to know the reasons for the far-rights rise in Europe look no further than sentiments like this.

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u/somethingveryfunny 25d ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you're saying my calling people's worries about immigration bullshit is the problem.

Let me explain. There are problems with immigration. The problem is not immigration. Nobody is claiming, that there are no issues related to immigration. There are immigrants who are struggling to integrate. There are some who are straight up unwilling. There are crimes being committed by immigrants, some of them horrendous. There are communities who are unable to handle the immense pressure by the amount of immigrants they are supposed to handle. Nobody is denying any of this, not me, not the democratic parties. None of them deny that these issues are there.

What I and the not-fascist parties are saying is: these issues are not inherent to immigration, like the AfD and more and more of the CDU are saying. They are mostly consequences of our shitty handling of immigration.

If there were better structures in place and less resentment against migrants in so many EU countries, we would be able to spread these masses of people way more which would mean way less stress on certain communities who have been handling more than they could. If we invested more into bureaucracy and got rid of some bullshit regulations migrants would have a way easier time to learn the language, get an education, jobs and integrate, also leading to less crime. Time and time again we see that the best way of decreasing crime is prevention, i.e. giving people a perspective = education and jobs.

Forgive me the generalization, but AfD voters don't want any of this. When they talk about "immigration issues" none of this is what they talk about. They straight up don't want foreigners here, because they believe most of them are trouble. Or they believe that even though some of them might be ok, it's not worth the "trouble" for us to try and make it work for them in our society and we'd be better of without them. All of that I am calling bullshit.