And those are just the nice labels

Calling AfD voters the n-word (nazis) is the most popular pastime of the German Mind Police these days.

This makes it easier for the established parties to maintain their “firewall” in order to protect themselves from competition, i.e. from having to do what the voters want them to do (see migration, energy, bureaucracy, etc.).

Germany’s AfD is labeled far right, populist or extremist – Right wing, far right, fascist: Many terms are being thrown around in the debate about the AfD. What do they mean, and how appropriate are they when discussing the Af

Why Germany’s anti-AfD firewall is crumbling?

Because the party that needs it as life insurance (the SPD) has fallen into the abyss.

You don’t need life insurance anymore when you’re already dead.

Germany’s so-called “firewall” was designed to prevent the resurgence of antidemocratic ideology and has shaped German politics for decades. Now, mounting voter support for the far-right AfD is exposing cracks.

German of the day: Genug!

That means enough! As in enough already!

Most Germans Have Had Enough of the Firewall Against AfD – While establishment parties continue to ostracize the party, only a third of the country supports the cordon sanitaire, with half wanting AfD to be treated as any other democratic party.

After a turbulent election season dominated by the establishment’s demonization of the national conservative AfD—now Germany’s most popular party—the plurality of Germans believe that ending the undemocratic cordon sanitaire against them is long overdue, regardless of who they vote for.