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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Imo, it moreso proves that poverty causes desperation, desperation causes people to be way more susceptible to political extremism.

I don't think this has anything to do with the GDR except for the fact that it left east Germany in poverty.

[–] rotkehle@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

if you're driving through East German cities you know why they're voting populist right wing parties. there's no work, poverty and half of the houses are empty because a lot of the people already left.

[–] geissi@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's half the explanation.
The economic and social decline makes people susceptible to populists.

But the other half is this:
They're not the only populists.
To vote for outright, obvious Neo-Nazis you also have to ok with Neo-Nazis.

[–] rotkehle@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

totally agree with you on that.

[–] RidderSport@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but that doesn't explain it all. Görlitz for example is the county with the highest number of votes for the AfD. But the county is doing really well, there's a big Siemens plant there.