A German far-right party wins its first state election and is very close in a second

or in short Nazis.

In video games the evil rises every thousand years. In real life I guess it's 80.

Never thought the number would become the fantastical part.

The electorate has been systematically driven into the arms of of those people by both the political establishment and the media for decades.

The political establishment has contended itself with turning austerity into some kind of state religion and administrating the resulting shortages. Whenever this has lead to discontent, they were happy enough to jump on the far right's bandwagon and adopted their talking points because they deluded themselves that they could get back lost votes this way, rather than admitting that they had caused the problems themselves and even trying to rectify them. The media have happily been helping this process along by rarely questioning the never ending austerity at the expense of the middle and lower classes, while parroting every single far right talking point. Now we're reaping what has been sowed in the past decades.

That the far right makes disproportional gains in the East is no surprise, as the East, especially its rural regions, has been systematically sold out and run down even further than under the GDR since reunification.

To be fair, at least in Saxony, the ruling CDU has fostered a complacent, uninvolved but ultimately unhappy populace for 30 years, because they thought that would keep them in their seats forever.

First time?

It never left.

But this time without socialism but just plain neo liberalism combined with people grinder machines. Yay