The Bruce Variant 🇺🇸 VOTE! (@greenLibertarian)

I'd heard only good things about the #AfD until I read this. Just FYI. ================================= AfD is NOT the heroic opposition that it claims to be. The upcoming #German election pits two very similar power camps against each other, with ONE of them thriving on elite panic. The closer the state election gets, the more madness spreads. The #SPD presents itself as a “workers’ party” while throwing workers’ rights in the trash. The #Greens pose as protectors of homosexuals while beating the war drum loudest for war against Russia. The #CDU waxes lyrical about tried and tested traditions while implementing one #AfD demand after another. The still-governing #FDP markets the leftovers of its neoliberal fairy tale about the “trickle-down effect.” Helplessly, The Left wobbles back and forth because it does not want to miss out on bourgeois respectability – a sorry spectacle. That means the AfD doesn’t have to do much more than counter this madness with a parallel world of its own. Its lead candidate, Ulrich Siegmund, smiles into many cameras. Before his supporters, he even rhapsodizes about the GDR, which he never experienced himself, while his party constantly accuses The Left of socialism and being the Stasi. The #AfD also wants to pour its system-supporting demands into laws. That is as democratic as things in the Federal Republic have always been. Its mix of nationalism, authoritarianism, chauvinism, neoliberal economic policy, and sanctimonious moralizing is simply distributed a little differently and expressed more bluntly than by the “old parties.” Neither mainstream nor alternative media like to talk about how much less the AfD’s program differs from the CDU’s than many assume. One striking example sounds as if copied directly from one of the Christian Democratic parties: the AfD wants to “give special support to Christianity” – in the very federal state with the lowest proportion of church members, at not even 14%. The pile of broken shards is real. And the #AfD lead candidate, Ulrich Siegmund, knows - just like the “old parties” - that a harder-edged CDU policy will not improve the lives of the majority. But whoever wants to administer the system had better not talk about the system’s causes. **In inventing problems to distract from the real ones**, they all outdo one another. In Saxony-Anhalt, capital is merely rehearsing a test run – with new protagonists. https://www.rt.com/news/645164-afd-germany-election-opposition/