cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17805513
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While Americans have long clashed over our country’s cruel and bigoted past, Germans have undertaken one of the most thoroughgoing efforts of any nation on the planet to reckon with their history. Germany, perhaps more than any other country, has attempted to pull out by the roots its homegrown variant of the reactionary spirit — the tendency of opponents of social change to choose hierarchy over democracy, trying to constrain or even topple democracy to protect hierarchies of wealth and status.
The Nazis were born out of disgust with post-World War I Weimar democracy, led by men furious about both the new government’s weakness and acceptance of the Jewish minority into German society. After Nazism brought Germany to ruin, preventing a reactionary resurgence became one of the central goals of the country’s subsequent leaders.
So it’s all the more extraordinary that in the past few years, Germany’s far right has been on the rise.
In 2015, at the peak of the global refugee crisis, German chancellor Angela Merkel announced an open-door policy for those fleeing violence in Syria and elsewhere. In response, the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party, a Euroskeptic faction without a single seat in Parliament, morphed into a virulently xenophobic force calling for Germany to slam Merkel’s open door shut.
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But its rise illustrates something vitally important: That Germany, of all countries, could fail to prevent a surge in reactionary antidemocratic politics suggests there’s something eternal and enduring about the reactionary spirit. And there is something about our current time period that makes it especially likely to flourish — not just in Germany, but around the world.
Last time I checked it was places like conservative led Florida passing laws that remove mandatory water breaks for migrant workers who work uprotected in the sun all day.
You’re saying it’s the left wing that imports brown people to abuse, but it’s the right that abuses them and then on the other hand you’re complaining that the hospitals are full because the left is giving free healthcare to the migrant workers that are abused by the right.
You can’t have it both ways.
Yes, I can have it both ways. The right doesnt want them here, and makes their live as bad as possible when they come.
The left loves cheap abusable labor, so they lie and pass laws that arent enforced to seem better than they are. The left hates the working class, thats why they pull this shit.
No, no you can’t. Lol. You’re making up some conspiracy theory that sounds like some pizzagate and it’s silly. There is so much wrong in what you said that the mental gymnastics needed to believe it takes a very special type of person and a very special type of mind.
So the “Christian moral majority” goes out of their way to abuse migrants. Got it. The same god that says “love they neighbor as thyself” and inspired it to be written thousands of years ago in a book still somehow read everyday just tossed that out? And in its place written down absolutely nowhere that god instead used small insecure men with agendas for power and wealth as vessels for his real message to hate and abuse others for their skin color instead. Ok. Lol.