On the subject of the SPD: An exit poll revealed that the majority of SPD voters in Brandenburg are at the same time dissatisfied with Olaf Scholz and his coalition. Many of the Brandenburg SPD voters were only interested in Woidke remaining in office or the AfD not coming in first place. It was even the case that Woidke deliberately did not invite federal SPD politicians like Scholz to his election rallies in order to keep the whole Ampel coalition away from him. So it's far from a comeback for him.
Woidke is one of the very few german politicians who is in the green when it comes to approval ratings... Hell 68% of voters in Brandenburg wanted him to stay as the president. Somehow this includes 60% of AfD Voters... The AfD candidate had only 19% approval rating. The AfD only got votes for national level stuff not for state level suff. the SPD in Brandenburg is seen as competent and capable of doing stuff. They improved the state by a lot ever since Woidke took the helm.
It wasn't just young voters - the SPD only won the 60+ age group, by a whopping 20 odd percent giving them a slight overall 1st place. The Afd had a sizeable lead in all under 60 age groups according to exit polls.
I feel that older voters aren’t as exposed to the issues of immigration as much as younger people as due to working their whole lives they live in relatively rich communities where low cost and asylum housing is rare , aswell as they consume mainstream sources that don’t talk about these issues as much
@@Siegfried_DDT yeah those older generations could buy homes for cheap and now they own those houses. while the younger generations keep getting ignored by political parties. and then if they vote for the one party that at least mentioned the things those younger generations experience the established parties ignore their votes. and that's why these parties keep growing. you can't ignore a big group of your population and act like their struggles aren't real. the established parties should acknowledge them and try to come up with solutions that (for once) don't negatively impact the younger people, and that make sure those younger people still have a future they want to be a part of.
Tl;Dr: here's a video about an international news story most media isn't covering. Average viewer: yeah, but you made a spelling mistake at 5 mins 11 secs so you clearly don't know anything.
That's why younger generations should become more active in politics. It's not always easy but with modern technology the threshold to start is lower than ever before.
This, and young Germans know this. They are reaping the results: uncertainty, high competition and rampant migration. How can one have hope for the future if you do not even recognize yourself in your own country?
@@fabianauer1986 Good. I am quite overworked, frustrated and really tired so I may not be exactly up to date of what is going on in the world right now. But that's good to hear. I myself am dreaming of becoming a business man, philanthropist who funds cultural projects with business dealings.
any proof for that? As far as I foudn the grees tried tactical voting to get seats but failed and the AfD shuffeled around candidates till the very end. Sounds utterly made up to me
I would say it's because the CDU and SDP haven't addressed any of the major concerns over the past decade. I remember hearing about the refugee crisis in Germany in 2014, the same way I still hear about it now. Over those 10 years, both major parties have just ignored the concerns that people have towards it, blaming it on racism or bigotry, and now a more radical party has embraced migration as a primary talking point. This isn't surprising at all, the writing for this kind of thing has been on the wall for years. If people grow up seeing both parties practically ignoring what the voters want, they'll lose faith in those two parties and go for something else.
This. And in particular the demographic paying the price for not addressing concerns will vote for any party that might. That’s a reliable outcome whether it’s young Germans for their reasons, or Canadians who rent homes for governments preventing housing development. These shifts are fundamentally because prior governments made policy that punishes a near majority of voters. It’s not that suddenly those voters became bigoted or conservative.
Exactly, it doesnt help that the two 'main' Parties, amongst the establishment, CDU and SPD have ignored a LOT of issues over a long time and those they have adressed they only did so half-heartedly. 'Nicht Fisch, nicht Fleisch' as one would say in Germany. (Neither fish, nor meat - meaning that in essence it's neither the one nor the other and ends up being something inbetwen that doesnt sit right with anyone). This can be seen in international politics, the economy, energy and immigration. Of course one shouldnt forget that a few issues like Housing, the High Tax burden and the IMMENSE national debts (afterall Germany is still paying off it's debts, reparations and whatnot from WW2 and the Marshall Plan), surely didnt make things easier and were always a hurdle. But ultimately the 'Merkel era' can only say that it stood for stability except for the whole anti-nuclear energy turn and the change in the immigration policy. Both of which were a turn-around from the previous course which was already lacking anyways, but was done half-assed. Then there's also the international involvements with military missions abroad where Germany's politicians expected a severely underfunded and under-appreciated (and constantly scrutinized - because, guess what? If you cant make a career out of serving/fighting for your Country because the pay is shit, you will either only get those who have no other options [though with germany's welfare system that's not really the case] and those who love their country and could be considered either Patriots or Nationalists), to perform on a comparable level to the US; France and Great Britain - which is not to rag on the boys in the Bundeswehr, but there is a distinct difference. In any case, the current Government isnt popular, Brandenburg has been run by the SPD for more than 30 years and while they didnt do badly, most consider Brandenburg less of a proper Federal State within germany and more of 'the surrounding countryside' of Berlin. - An asessment that isnt far away from the truth as most germans would struggle to name more than 3 Cities in Brandenburg and those three are most likely Potsdam (the Capital and sometimes referred to as 'Berlin's Suburb'), Brandenburg an der Havel (because 'duh, Brandenburg is in Brandenburg') and Frankfurt (mostly due to the City with the same name located at the river Main, rather than the one at the river Oder). I am mildly surprised the AFD hasnt won, but they are in a powerfull position. Could there have been election fraud? Possibly. I know that 'mail in ballots' have come under severe scrutiny in many western countries as the political neutrality of many state institutions has been severely undermined in the past decade or so, so it's not beyond possibility that things might have been 'fudged' to some extent. At the same time I also dont think that it's unlikely that many people didnt vote for what they wanted, but simply chose 'the lesser evil'. Afterall almost since it's inception the AFD has been demonized and painted as the Devil incarnate or like the second-coming of Hitler, so many people would probably vote against the AFD (even if they arent against their policies or even agree with them), simply to not be labeled a 'Nazi'.
When the refugee crisis really started in 2015 (Merkel: "wir schaffen das"), there was some kind of strange euphoria in all the media (even Bild) in celebration of the German Willkommenskultur that had suddenly be willed into existence. Merkel [edit: corection, this was Göring-Eckardt of the Greens] announced that Germany was going to change into a different country. I am not making this up. And nobody thought about asking the regular voter whether they agreed. It didn't seem right to me then, and indeed here we are.
This is TLDR after all. I’m only here because I’m still deciding whether I think the TLDR staff are really in such a hopeless echo chamber or are just pretending to fit in with their fellow ideologues.
@@alx9rthey provide less annoyingly biased coverage of world politics than most channels, and are quick and to the point. But even if they wanted to, they couldn’t tell you the real reason this is happening, as it is illegal to do so in many countries!
perfect example are people like you to be honest, you really still think migration plays a major role in this when it doesn't migration as a topic is a perfect vehicle for alt right or far right parties, no more no less their policies are usually very much neoliberal because that's where their money comes from after all neoliberalism caused all of problems we face today: housing, cost of living, bad infrastructure, lack of investment, bad social welfare, drug addiction, obesity if you apply liberal policies you erode the basis of a society, you enable monetization of existential crisis in a privatized housing market, homelessness is a plus, it allows you to charge more rent because people fear ending up on the street the same can be said about the energy market, the war on drugs, war on terror, private education, private insurance, private pensions, etc.
Exactly this. Older generations only care about keeping their pensions and property value save. Thats literally all they care about. They are not sitting inside of old crumbling school buildings and take their breaks on schooldyards where half of the people dont speak German. Younger generations have enough of taking the brunt of the problems of cost cutting and immigration
@@Ricardo-mk2et before blaming old generation. Say, how many kids do you have or intend to have? Of course old people care about their pensions and how they would be paid if less young people are there. While young has a lot of time to mature and get the grasp of what's going on.
@@zedtrek I can tell you're a child. If you think those are Nazis, you're not just young, you're a bit dim also. Words have meanings. I'd suggest learning them if you want to be taken seriously by the adults.
The youth see and regret the future direction of their country on either side of the political spectrum, they do not wish to repeat the mistakes of their parents.
And the gatekeepers get mad when people force a peaceful transfer of power through democratically elected processes, that they have no choice but to repeat the playbook of the authoritarian monikers of their past predecessors.
It's not just 44 seats that are determined by proportional representation. In Brandenburg, this number can increase to as many as 66 seats if the first-past-the-post voting disrupts the overall proportional composition of parliament.
When someone asks why, I'm just wondering whether people cannot think on their own what is the root cause or whether their memory is limited to two weeks.
I think young Europeans are seemingly more right wing because economic opportunity for young people is awful compared to 50yrs ago. The economic model needs to be fixed to work for young people
As a left wing person myself, I see the underlying issue in golbalisation and the resulting inequality. Back in 1970 cooperations where still national. So the national government can regulate them and the owners allways have to make sure to get the support of there employees by giving them a fair share of the profit. With globalisation companys now can choose where they locate their head quaters and plants. So goverments have to give tax cuts and labour must be cheap, if not, they just move their production abroad. This lead to more and more profits going to investors and less and less going to workers. So to get to a good lifing standart with just doing a normal job, gets increasingly hard, because your have to compete with people that get their income from investments.
absolutely, I'm at least happy people across borders realize this, the international left still exists but I'm honestly clueless how we can enact meaningful change, corporate media heavily favors liberalism
Social Democrats want to subsidize the failed EVs after they have forced the automobile industry to focus only on EVs. That's what happens when you vote socialist.
While that is true, it is definetly not the real cause for Germany. German Wages were always high yet Germany was still attractive for industry. Until the energy bills soared, consumption plummeted, infrastructure deteriorated, etc.
You know I always think that the commies and the far right should ally, I mean if you listen to either of their speeches it becomes pronounced that they effectively hate the same people for mostly the same reasons so why not put the pitchforks down for a just a while so that they can push the reforms they both agree with.
Anti establishment sentiments are always popular + the somewhat overall let down of main German parties with the political culture fit for pensioners and businessmen than anything else really makes you want to scream. Wealth inequality, lost social order compass and high property costs that make you financially inept or barelly so to care for yourself let alone starting a family, amount to something that can be used by political outsiders.
I don't disagree, but if you look at the financial policies the AfD proposes, you see that the AfD is staunchly pro bussiness people and the rich. Their tax and social propsals put rich people at a vast advantage and low and middle incomes at vast disadvantages. Low income housholds would pay more and high income housholds less. So those youths basically vote against their own interest.
It's not even that. In Europe people are just fed up of mass migration. That's why people are shifting. Migration isn't a left/right topic though. The younger generations aren't "turning right", it's just that right-leaning parties have migration policies while the left ones do not.
@@Patrick-y4d1z Fully agree, if the left leaning parties would start doing something against mass illegal migration, AfD would fade. The Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance is a good example.
@@Patrick-y4d1z not true, right leaning parties are the ones that created the current situation in Germany especially far right parties like AFD don't have any valid strategies or policies what so ever, you cannot magically deport millions of German citizens there's a reason why so many people can't be returned to their state of origin, the ruling parties would have to be borderline stupid to not solve the problem if it was that easy that's populism for you, suggest simple solutions for complex problems, rarely going to work as demonstrated by what conservatives all over Europe did for the past 20 to 30 years they're the ones that brought us the housing crisis, energy crisis, issues with migration, education and other sectors because they were busy liberalizing markets and selling away average peoples' wealth for their own benefit
@@marcvb3364yeah but look at the recent coalition talks after the elections in saxonia and thuringia though. BSW made a lot of promises including about putting a stop to the mass importation of non-EU foreigners, but at the end when it comes down to turn their words into actions they just act like stepping stones for the old parties to reach ruling majority. They're a trojan horse cloaked under pleasant sounding promises.
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Better question is why are you asking the questions to which we all know the answers
Is this why almost no young people vote afd in berlin and hamburg and other huge cities with high migrant populations, but they do so in low immigrant tiny towns in east germany with like 5% migrants? Kinda shows the opposite being true.
Because young people are voting with the future in mind while the old ones are doing so with the past. No one wants to get stabbed by a migrant in the future.
Issues like not being able to find an apartment or buy a house, difficulties in finding a secure well paying job, cost of living skyrocketing, energy bills, failing healthcare and education system, massive train delays and climate change are the main issues people (and especially young people think about). Sure, personal safety is an issue too - but Germany still has among the lowest crime rates in Europe so it’s not that 30% of people constantly fear being stabbed whenever they go outside, especially in rural Brandenburg.
From the start of 2015 to the end of 2017, 1,356,600 asylum seekers were registered in total According to a 2018 study by German criminologists, the crime rate of non-Germans between the ages of 16 and 30 is within the same range as that of Germans.n May 2016, U.S. fact-checker politifact suggested that, as crimes by immigrants rose 79 percent in 2015 and the number of refugees in the country rose by 440 percent, the crime rate among refugees was lower than that among German natives. Granted the data is not the most recent but something must have gone extremely wrong for things to change dramatically.
Let’s see: -Huge taxes -Housing crisis -Cost of living crisis -Illegal immigration = high crime rates -Stagnant wages That’s why young people are unable to afford living & family
and you think the far right are going to solve any of these problems? good one the "shift" in political climate, at least in Germany, is not based on policy making and content corporate media heavily favors conservative and liberal policies, it's controlled by these groups same goes for the far right, their funding mostly still comes from wealthy neoliberals the parties that actually oppose the recent development (tax cuts, tax evasion, privatization, etc.) are constantly berated by corporate media, may it be liberal or conservative, refer to the US for the extreme version of this this creates a paradox situation: conservative parties are most similar to the far right yet constantly need to distance themselves from them so populist voters switch to the far right and realist voters switch to other center, center right or center left parties
Lets see: Brandenburg has some of the lowest tayex of all federal states, in those three points where taxation is actually done on a state and not national level, so your point is wrong Brandenburg faces depopulation and demolishes hundreds of thousands of houses each year, rents are the cheapest in all of germany even in the bigger cities like Cottbus Guben and Frankfurt, the only outliner woudl eb Potsdam which is essentially part of Berlin by now. Brandenburgs inflation especially in the food sector is also lower than other states but as it is mostly shared it is a useless point for a state level election as it is a national issue and can not be solved on the state evel "illigal immigration and high crime rate" Brandenburg faces lots of illigal immigration and now hosts the most federal police officers of any state and that is since 2015 unchanged, the total migration population in Brandenburg, going back to 5th generation immigrants is 4.9%. Just for first generation immigrants ever yother sate in germany except for thuringia has double or more that. thuringia is at around 8% so just below double. Crime has been fallin in Brandenburg for over a decade now and is almost exclusively done by germans Wages in Brandenburg have seen the highest rate of increase of all federal states Or in short. Literally every single point you made is wrong or irrelevant as it is not a state but national issue. Go educate yourself before speaking
" high crime rates " this is BS blown up by the media the only place in germany where crime rates are somewhat high is in the major cities but thats to be expected germany has a larger immigration rate then britain and france but a lot lower crime statistics
@@AlphaHorst Its the food prices and inflation the Proplems are that when times are bad people will allways blame the goverment and while ampel had proplems i wouldnt exactly blame them for these things espcially as the food prices come from the russian invasion and more severe climate trough climate change Proplem is young voters often dont understand the context behind the Proplems and only see the goverment as a proplem
It’s a very common question to ask. The precise answer is no nobody is shifting far right but nobody’s understanding why Germany should pay the entire world. Nobody wants people living in their country that do not respect the culture.
Far-right is such an empty slognan. In Poland most economically left leaning party, that opened Poland to record numbers of migrants, unmatchdd by any other party is called "far-right" because they also made more restrictive abortion laws. Okay, the last one is definitely right wing but you can't ignore 99% of the rest that party was doing only because they were pro-immgration but not up to the western Europe standards few years ago...
Weird that the young people in Brandenburg don't see the huge benefits that mass-immigration brings, considering that it's so close to Berlin and how great it works there. Oh. Oh yeah. I see.
This channel is very much: look we're smart, educated, understand a bit of economics and are not the MSM, now swallow the big govt. & big corpo propaganda you coughed up when it came from ARD/ZDF etc.
True. Another thing is probably that TLDR are mostly London-based and too small to have a big network in Germany, and so they have to rely largely on German MSM media and their narratives.
The economic strategy in Germany and many other European countries is to do nothing against the shrinking native populations but to promote or allow the settlement of qualified, unqualified or illegal migrants from distant cultures instead. Why would the youth in Europe have a problem with that? They are losing their homelands!
Most of these young voters aren't far-rightists; there is a legitimate concern on the state of immigration in Germany which they feel that only the AfD is strong enough to address. Strategies like cordon sanitaires might keep the AfD out of government, but these young voters will feel even more justified.
"Strong enough to address"? you don't have to be strong at all to address anything. Where you have to be strong, and probably experienced, is when it comes to solutions. The AFD has none of those.
Maybe the young voters are not far right. But sadly they are stupidly paving the way into the government for those extremists who are really able to destroy everything that has been achieved in the past 80 years.
@@soundscape26 The video didn't really delve into the migrant problem that much. On the WHY of it. WHY are young people so against migration outside of the EU. And that is what TH-cam don't want to hear :)
@@soundscape26 And! It's absolutely titillating that most of you also know what I'm talking about! It's exhilarating to know that I'm starting to become the majority now!
People are very conserned about there money. They dont care about the enviorment if they cant afford to do so. Thats also why the FDP go so few votes; they make politic for the ritch and if you have no money you dont care about that.
It’s very simple: Immigration, immigration, immigration. The youth, of all groups in Germany, are getting the closest look to what a non-white future in Germany is going to look like. They experience it in school, in bars, everywhere they go. The German youth do not want to become a minority in their own country. Some folks with a migrant background within Germany are also sympathetic to the AfD because they also would prefer that Germany remains German. After all, that’s what they immigrated to.
YES! It's so simple. People just want to think of other reasons. There are none! I became a single issue voter after going to school with immigrants from muslim backgrounds. That was all it took for me to realize there is only one thing that matters when voting and that is the Islamic invasion.
@@KH-mn7bt yea ? but the signs of 20 million people getting deported is an outrageous thing to support. So, half Germans and people born here and stayed all their life must be sent out. Sent out to where ? In what way it's different from Nuremberg laws ??
@@indijones14 you're being alarmist. No one is saying deport all Muslims. They are saying: - Ease up immigration, specifically from outside Europe. - make the requirement for immigrants to embrace their new home country and follow it's values. - focus on opportunities for the national work force over cheap foreign labour. These aren't racist radical policies.
Young men in Germany feel left behind and no longer represented. As the government moved increasingly towards the identitarian left, refugees, foreigners, women trans & lgbt issues got increasingly more prioritized. And on the other side of the isle the CDU and FDP stopped caring about young people and shifted their focus to please their geriatric voter base. Now the economy is in shambles, the infrastructure is crumbling, the education system is worse than some third world countries and opportunities for young men are drying up. Add to that the rising problems of drugs and violent crimes committed by badly integrated immigrants and of course young men desperately want a change.
Note that this is a former East German state, and East Germany is full of incels as the women got educated and left for the west. Young men seemingly don't want to get educated, can't grow up and unsurprisingly they fall behind their female counterparts.
This is factually not true. Brandenburg is the state with the strongest economic growth in all of germany. Being the only state that has a steady +2% growth each year. For over 30 years. What are people protesting? That the economy does good in brandenburg? I have been there. I live in saxony anhalt. Brandenburg is an economic powerhouse. But the fascists are strong sadly.
@@herroberbesserwisser7331 Brandenburg an economic powerhouse? Are you high? Barely any people live there. It’s one of the economically weakest states. Not hard to grow from there. The gdp probably grows by 2% every time a rich person from Berlin moves there.
@@WandererTau Populismus 101 - seine faktisch korrekte Antwort diffarmieren und inhaltlich nicht darauf eingehen die Nazis sind nicht an die Macht gekommen weil es Hyperinflation und eine schwache Weimarer Verfassung gab die sind an die Macht gekommen, weil Kapitalismus und Demokratie sich grundsätzlich widersprechen und zu Faschismus führen man kann nicht Jahrzehnte lang Märkte liberalisieren, staatliche Ausgaben für sämtliche Sektoren reduzieren und dann erwarten, dass der gesellschaftliche Zusammenhalt einfach so weiterbesteht - Konzerne und Superreiche zahlen heute effektiv keinen € an Steuern mehr während Lohn und Gehalt sowie Kapitalerträge für den Durchschnittsbürger nach wie vor massiv besteuert werden, dazu Privatisierung in Bereichen wie Strommarkt, Bahn, Immobiliensektor, Landwirtschaft, usw. Neoliberalismus zerstört die Grundsätze unserer Demokratien, auch die AFD ist eine neoliberale Partei, dafür reicht ein Blick ins Steuerprogramm das fällt noch liberaler aus als das der FDP und das ist auch das was man als gebildeter Mensch nicht so ganz versteht die AFD "wirbt" mit dem Thema Migration, Migration ist nicht verantwortlich für die marode Deutsche Bahn, die schlecht aufgestellten Behörden, die Bundeswehr, Polizei, Staatsanwaltschaften oder Schulen denen das Personal fehlt, Migranten hinterziehen auch nicht Milliarden an Steuern im Jahr das sind Probleme die es nachhaltig zu lösen gilt
not a single young person in germany has ever ditched the greens for the afd. the new anti-ampel offensive of the afd has just mobilized a new set of young people to vote at all.
@@Ghreinos voter churning is polled and reported on, what op said is correct we can look at Brandenburg to understand what happened within the Greens voter base: the Greens lost approx. 50.000 voters to SPD, 5.000 to CDU, 5.000 to BSW, 3.000 to AFD, and 2.000 to non-voters the Greens voter base heavily opposes far right populism, these two are the biggest opposing sides in virtually all measures may it be economic situation, outlook on society, education levels, employment rates, etc.
My take as an anti-AfD young german is that many youths feel neglected and betrayed by older parties and are troubled by the recent developements regarding migration. In comes the AfD that does nothing but talk about how bad the older parties are and how they're gonna deport all the troublesome muslims. And when you're feeling all these bad emotions parties that yell out all their frustrations and offer easy to understand solutions are more appealing. And once the AfD has your interest it is very easy to convince you that all the warnings of them being dangerously far to the right and don't offer any solutions other than "immigrant bad" are just lies told by an evil system trying to discredit and eliminate a threat to their reign. In short: The other parties are leaving the young behind and the only ones giving the appearence of being there for them are even worse.
Trust me pal, you have no Idea how dangerous a heavy muslim populated Germany would be. Just look at the present situation of nations like Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. This religious community is horrible and crazy as hell. You are lucky to never live under the 'muslim majority' society.
@@eisbergsyndrom5010 you have no Idea of how dangerous it is to live under a heavy muslim populated Germany. Just look at the situation of another religious groups in the nations like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. That is a total hell for them. You have no idea how crazy this community will be once they get population boost in Europe.
This! I'm one of them. I remember people saying "People fear what they don't understand, once you get to know Muslims you no longer fear them. Well I went to school in Finland with many Muslims and my understanding increased and my fear was not diminished, it was fortified. Fear of Islam is justified. I am a single issue voter and that issue is Islam.
Between 2015 and 2022, Germany received over 1.5 million refugees and asylum seekers, from various countries including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and others impacted by war and instability. 50% were women and children.
@@herlandercarvalho Their religion demonizes homosexuals, other religions, and what they perceive to be blasphemous to their faith. They demand the subjugation and subservience of women and are socially backward. And since 2014 more than 10 million illegal migrants from Africa and the Middle East have flooded into Europe . More than 2 million of them being men. These men have since committed a litany of crime and formed gangs plaguing their host countries.
With crime statistics you always have to be careful. In criminology 101 one thing they teach you is that crime figures are always tricky to interpret. For example, most pickpocketing is done by poor people and a lot is done by illegal immigrants as a way to survive and that´s a fairly easy crime to spot. However, most business/tax fraud is done by people who are pretty privileged, i.e White, wealthy, well connected it´s harder to detect, and people get away with it much more often. That´s before you even factor in things like racial bias in the police, which we know is a problem in most police forces. There are other biases too, there are biases against poor people, there are biases against people who are neurodivergent etc. That means you need to be really careful when you read crime statistics.
@@Siegfried_DDT well, I´m afraid I think that belief is a little naive. Look how many politicians and businessmen we know are involved in criminality of some sort and how few of them get arrested. The system effectively protects those people.
@@MinimmalmythicistI agree there will always be a level of bias but for example East Asian immigrants and Indian immigrants were incredibly low in those statistics , two groups that’s experienced racism yet commit lower crime so there is clearly a trend that must not be ignored
@@Minimmalmythicist don't mind, he's not interested in facts, he has a narrative and he will stick with it "brown people bad" - the foreigners are all uneducated, poor and unemployed but somehow steal our jobs at the same time /s
Why is the CDU presented in orange, as opposed to black? Black is their traditional colour in graphs and orange is not only similiar to the yellow of the FDP, another party called BVB/Free Voters are usually shown in orange
There´s a few things that need to be stated so this figure isn´t seen in a misleading way. One thing is that the vast majority of young people didn´t vote AFD, 30% did in those elections, meaning that 70% did not vote AFD. Another thing is that plenty of young people don´t vote, I think extending the vote to 16 year olds was insane, they´re way too immature. Another thing is that these results are for East Germany, in the West the picture may well be different. Certainly a sweeping generalisation like "young Germans have ditched the Greens for the AFD" isn´t true. As there was never a time when a majority voted for either party.
16 years old voted? wtf. And yeah, the news always makes such a big issue about huge gains by the far right when it's barely a few %. 51%, then we're talking about significance shift in voter opinion.
Good point, but I still don't know anyone who will vote for the Greens. My leftist friends generally support other more traditionally materialist parties.
the mainstream parties have failed to adress the economic concerns of the people to what they percieve as an anti-establishiment movement, the AFD however coudn't be a more liberally economic party, that is why they avoid talking about their own economic policies and focus on imigration rethoric, they know their economic policies would be very much unpopular or at least exactly the same as a mainstream liberal party
The older people do not change their minds on politics or their votes, it's not important what happens in the country. Like 60+ age SPD and CDU voters, they are like fanatics ultras about their political decisions. That's why change always comes with new generations!
People outside of Brandenburg pre vote: "There´s only old far right people living off social money in the east!!!" People outside of Brandenburg post vote: "Oh no, young people voted the far right into power, I knew this is going to happen!!!" That´s what you get when so many people talk about a state they never once in their live visited and likely never will.
man sollte nicht vergessen, dass die Altersgruppen natürlich nicht gleichmäßig die Bevölkerung repräsentieren alleine die Gruppen 40 bis 59 und 65+ stellen über 50% der Bevölkerung
I didn't say that and everyone who is just slightly interested in politics wouldn't as in the EU election the AfD performed very well for young voters. And if one is watching social media they are everywhere.
Sure they are. The young generation sees all the problems of migration on the streets and in the school yards. They feel it every day. And they start to see the pattern of which who are the people behaving bad.
It has more with economic issues, housing market and the insane labor market that makes young people feel left behind and feeling like they for the first time in history have it worse than their parents generation in terms of fulfilling their dreams - and that no other party than the AFD has achieved what they promise. Blaming Immigrants, brown people and “woke” is however a really malicious way of simplifying the solution to these economic issues that sounds really good in TV debates and on Social media. Even if it’s a ridiculously infantile and straight up nonsensical way of solving these issues, meaning AFD doesn’t have a plan. Crime and immigrantion is a real issue, yes. But it’s extremely over exaggerated, because 99% of immigrants are good people and a very small minority has been victims or know someone victim of a violent migrant crime which is still rare in Germany with one of the lowest crime rates in the world. I do think however that isolating the AFD is the main reason for their growth. Let them take some responsibility and then they’ll prove that they are even more incompetent than the establishment to solve issues. In Denmark for example, the far right collapsed from 20% to 4% the first term they got to have some real responsibility, the same pattern is seen in other countries as well.
Migration is not a federal issue. So anyone who voted afd in brandenburg because of migration is just stupid and does not know how the german state functions. Facts are: Under Woidke and teh SPD Brandenburg was on the up, with the highest rate of wage increase in the last decade of all german states. It is the state with the best kept schools, while even in Bavaria many schools face closure due to rotting away. Brandenburg has renovated schools non stop for the past 20 years. then tghere is also the fact that just 4.9% of brandenburgs population is actually an immigrant or someone with a migration background, including people up to the 5th generation... For comparrison. NRW has 14% just new immigrants since 2013.
@@NicolasHaufe How big of a percentage of all immigrants or all non EU immigrants commit violent non-misdemeanor crime? It’s not over 1%. That would be many tens of thousands or up towards a hundred thousand people. If it was way more than 1% or even as little as like 2-3% - we would notice that quickly and Germany would have Brazil levels of crime 😅
@@Elucidator- do you think so? I don't "the left" is historically weak in Germany ever since the Nazis killed and deported 90% of them in the 40s if you look at the last elections on state level, the Greens, SPD and Linke have all cultivated a steady amount of voters no matter the age the current "change" in political climate is basically just middle aged and first voters voting far right populists instead of conservative populists the trend is the same in any German state: Union and SPD poll highest among the voters 60 years of age and above Union loses heavily with each age group, SPD dips in the middle age group and then rises again among voters below 35 the conservative voter base splits up between populist choices like AFD or BSW on one side and more realist choices like SPD, Greens or FW on the other they have not found a coherent strategy to stop is, I'm sure most of them don't even realize it same thing that has happened in the US, the UK or virtually any other capitalist democracy
@@Elucidator- It's no coincidence; the left shares it's morality and ethics with Catholicism on most issues. Just without the whole God and Jesus component.
Another reason to consider is that older people have established social groups and are less likely to completely switch their political stance by voting for the AfD. It's like suddenly becoming a Republican after being a decade-long democratic voter, especially since the SPD changed their position with regard to migration policy.
They probably don't support Russia. Also, they probably don't want to get into a war with Russia, either. Seems very reasonable that they would vote in a more radical party that wouldn't use them as cannon fodder in a World or nuclear war, or a party that promises to fix the economy (rampart inflation, rent, criminality, electricity, etc). I doubt AFD will manage, but at least they speak about problems that people care...
I'm 32 and I've only started voting to vote the AfD. Half my neighbors can't even talk to me, neither in English, nor in German. The country is unsafe, not economically competitive, and the government's institutions are failing. Radical reforms are needed and no other party is even considering that.
well, try to look past migration and the whole narrative around it for a second e.g. on paper the Greens propose a strong shift and policy reform to reestablish a strong state that supports its citizens and corporations what the AFD considers is exactly what happened for the past 30 years: neoliberalist capitalism they want to reduce taxes and welfare spending even further and demount the state all together exactly this is the cause for the cost of living crisis we find ourselves in today energy, infrastructure, public railway, telecommunications, postal office - privatized, lack of investment, down the drain
Germany is a special case. The boomers from today were the ones who asked questions about our Nazi past and got to enjoy all the education surrounding that topic. And Germany has been a very safe, strong and economically booming country for well over half of every boomer's life under the control of either the SPD or CDU, which created a special type of loyalty. Germany was decimated by Covid and then knocked out by the Ukraine war like no other nation, since we were completely dependent on an ever so increasingly globalizing world. And, as TLDR would probably tell you, that trend of globalization and interconnectivity between countries all across the globe basically halted in 2020 and basically started to reverse since Feb 2022. Germany is doomed for this decade and I'm afraid of what's going to happen in the 30s.
Why does whole europe force us to choose between a slow spiral downwards into despair or a swift and immediate collapse? Man. Why cant we have a normal party for once :(
The main reason for the SPD victory was that their candidate distanced himself as much as possible from the federal government and chancellor Scholz. They didn't campaign together once, and he even erased the partys logo on some of his election posters.
Great report - thanks. So at last the youth are realizing that they don't want to live under Sharia law !? I hope the same idea reaches the UK before it's too late.
The AfD received 29% of the vote overall, and 32% of the young vote. That's an increase, but not by much. The reason for the AfD's lead with young voters appearing so strong, is that way fewer young voters voted for the SPD (18% vs 31%) and more for smaller parties like the Greens or the Left. In my opinion, the main reason for the SPD doing much better in Brandenburg than in Saxony or Thuringia, is that the SPD is the strongest non-AfD party in Brandenburg. In the other two states that role goes to the CDU. Polls indicate that in each state a lot of people voted for the strongest non-AfD party to deny the AfD a symbolic election victory.
Easy, because afd Iistens to the needs of young peopIe and tries to give them what they need; the other parties just dismiss the worries of the younger generation without taking them into account
But, according to a recent report by DW, the only reason people voted for the SPD was to keep the AfD out of power. That's not very promising and leaves the SPD in a very precarious position. It's like the anybody but Trump vote in America. Trump hasn't gone anywhere and is as strong as ever.
People are tires of specific types of immigrants , for example south East Asian , East Asian , Polynesian , Australasian immigrants etc etc integrate very well and are peaceful while others the the opposite
Bloody hell I was not expecting that good news with young people voting that is a very pleasant surprise. Finally some good news for once that is a nice change compared to hearing bad news over and over again all the time.
They are at the very least legally speaking *led* by right wing extremists, the German state has clearly stated as much (They are also just right wing extremists in general - not all voters, but most party members)
@@Geny no, the Afd elite and leaders are traditionally what we could call "right wing extremists", they tick all of the boxes of radical (in the current sense of the word) right wing outlook society, and most of them range from apathetic to supportive of national socialist policies and heritage, and i know what i'm talking about since i'm one
@@Geny It's actually not. The german constitutional court ruled, that parts of AFD are legally rightwing extremists. While the whole party is a suspected case of being right wing extremist.
No one really knows why? .. Hmmm .. Is it something related to 1 Crime 2 Housing shortages 3 Reverse discrimination 4 Lectured from here to where you are living No one knows why? Ha!
Very simple answer: The AFD is on TikTok, the other Parties aren´t. (Really, their presence is negligible) Except for the Left maybe, but the left maneuvered themselves out with years of prioritizing identity politics over real politics.
Because the young generation believes that voting Afd to power can solve their money and affordability crisis while blatantly ignoring the structural failures in the system.
Native German here. The AfD have been extremely efficient in controlling the public conversation around migration, they have been pushing for more and more extreme measures and the other parties have been willing to go along with it. We haven't been talking about anything other than migration, which is a pity because there are so many other important issues to deal with. And considering that the conservative party has been seen as being responsible for integrating the last wave of refugee migration in 2015, they aren't seen as sufficiently racist and anti-migrant, so racist votes go the AfD only. Another reason for this is that the AfD has been extremely effective in their social media propaganda, especially on TikTok. But as the polls in the video show, young people are not the more racist ones, in fact they are less racist, they are just the earliest to jump on the AfD bandwagon right now, as the AfD has been sufficiently normalized now, while older people are still attached to more established parties. So young people here are just the first ones to jump onto a general right-wing trend in society, but older people will follow very soon, as they are in fact the drivers of it.
Anything I don't like is propaganda and I am the real rebel when I repeat the slogans of Vetternwirtschaft politicians and the global corporations. It isn't raycis to want your nation to remain your nation and not become a free for all who want gibs.
Native german here agrees. I also feel like the german public education system has massively failed these people. I would bet money on it that a solid part of the age group talked about does not even understand how the german political system (Bundesregierung, Bundestag, Bundesrat, Bundestags - vs Landtagswahlen, etc.) works. They are simply given neither enough good information and knowledge nor the tools on how to acquire those things. Instead that void gets filled with what you mentioned, social media propaganda and misinformation. Fun fact, im not sure about other countries but in germany specifically there is a data trend where the less immigrants / refugees / citizens with a foreign background live in an area, the more right wing it tends to be. There are great maps that show this, and i think it says alot. I am by no means saying that there arent any problems with refugees and how immigration and integration are handled in general, but the AfD sure as shit isnt the solution for those.
Until the two knife attacks where a policeman died and the terrorist attack in Solingen, migration was still a major theme but not the only one and since than, knife attacks have been reported daily in major and minor news channels. The AfD doesn't have to be efficient, the current situation in all of Europe is anti-immigration.
Boomers in every country always against the youth who will be left to deal with poor choices of old people. Selfishness knows no bounds with the boomers.
The reasons for the spds success in Brandenburg was that they tried to come over as different as possible from the federal party. Especially Dietmar Woidke as Brandenburgs prime minister was extremely important that’s why the media is calling it Woidkes and not the SPDs win. Olaf Scholz and the SPD is so unpopular in fact that Dietmar Woidke avoided ANY public contact with the German Chancellor during the election whatsoever. He made sure to not invite him to any campaigning event and did not want to be seen on photos with him. So no buddying up to fascists did not help them win Woidke choosing to almost run a independent campaign from the federal party did!
One very important point on comparing 18-24 year old opinions compared to older generations is that a far, far higher proportion of 18-24 year olds are of immigrant backgrounds, and non-white. The support of young white people for the far right is therefore even higher than the overall 18-24 figures would suggest, since the non-white 18-24 vote left and generally support immigration from outside the EU..
Actually wouldn't bank on it. People from immigrant background are very often anti-immigration, they don't have any sentiments about it most of the time and they seen the negatives from closest perspective. Maybe people like that won't be voting AfD but will vote left wing anti imk8gra option.
@@andrzejnadgirl2029 Where is there a demonstration of this? It seems that in every country, people of immigrant backgrounds enter politics and push for radical and suicidal migration policies, as seen in my country, Australia. In the US, it is literally a divide between white people (Republicans) and everybody else (Democrats) when it comes to voting.
Its because the said they will build cheap houses for 1st time buyers and they said they will build over a million a year, and they cant do it, but hey kids Santa is real
I don't think migration is that much of a concern for younger voters, they are fed up with a government that is not acting in their best interest but only prioritizing itself and business. People who are now 18 years old were born in 2006, they have lived through the great recession, the euro crisis, the refugee crisis in 2015, the climate crisis, covid crisis, Ukraine war and now again a recession. Since they are alive there has not been a single year without any major crisis, so of course they long for stability and order, that is what the AfD promises them, even though they can never achieve that because the issues are so far greater than Germany. That us why young people worldwide are shifting to either the left or the right.
Mass immigration is an example of the government prioritising the interests of big business and landlords at the expense of the young and working classes.
@@wb8233 immigration is one of the few examples of a thing that benefits everybody as long as it's done right. The problem is when mass migration happens but no resources are invested into integration and people who immigrated are concentrated into ghettos instead of being dispersed throughout the country. Both of which are mistakes the government made.
@@domninin This. The Netherlands is trying to solve this by limiting funding to refugee camps and stop prioritizing approved refugees for homes. Will this end the housing crisis? This will hardly even help it. Will it result in a bunch of stressed-out refugees all living together and finding it difficult to learn the language and work at the same time while also sharing their living space with 10 other people half of which refuse to keep things clean? Yes. Will they be distributed more evenly into the Dutch society? No. Will they be blamed for not wanting to integrate? Yes.
@@TheSlyngel it is societies fault if they don't get work permits for 10 years after arrival, kids don't get school education for years after arrival, they can't get housing so are forced to live in refugee accomodations with 10 other people in a room for years on end where they don't get any contact to Germans, if they get housing it's in Ghettos with majority foreigner population. Integration is a two way street, without work, friends, a car or contact to Germans, how are they supposed to integrate?
I am not to concern as far right parties have been a thing for a long time. If both far ideologies are on the rise it means that something is seriously wrong and parties are forced to co-operated to find a solution.
TH-cam is part of the establishment and it doesn't like when natives notice the changes that are happening. Immagine actually thinking that not wanting mass immigration make you a racist.
The mainstream German parties have got two choices before then ...either they keep on ignoring AFDs concern and call them all sort of names and let them rise or try working with them ,cordon sanatire doesn't always works
And i think thats a mistake, dont go with the far far right afd concerns but actually go with the concerns of the people. don't adabt right wing talking points like the fdp and cdu are doing but actually try to do something for the working majority of the people, that are afraid of not putting enough food on the table, losing their jobs and not being able to retier
@@dracorawth8962But there is a point to be made that antagonizing an entire group of people isn't exactly a democratic solution. Plus, ppl rly underestimate the power that parties in the opposition have
leftie power block? in what parallel universe? Germany was governed by a center right coalition for 16 years straight, conversatives and liberals have been most influential on the political spectrum many aspects of German society have been privatized over the years and policy making as a whole was very conservative generally speaking privatization of public railway sector, privatization of postal services, privatization of the energy market and utilities sector as a whole social welfare spending as % of GDP has decreased steadily, corporate tax cuts have been made, financialization of the markets, etc. there has been some left leaning policy making in the early 2000s, e.g. subsidies for renewables were introduced, that's about it
The thing is there will be a lot of non educated young adults on this situation especially people in east Germany who got fed up with how the west doesn't care about them, remember kids facismo is capitalism in decline
And Afghanistan now , people think it’s fine to leave a country due to horrible conditions under radical Islam and hen try to force Islam on everyone else in their new country , it’s so odd
@@DCCCXVII of course they are. They came to Germany and had to work their asses off to stay here. They hate the new free-loaders as much as any of the natives do.
@@DCCCXVII Some of them are. You know, not every member of a minority group wishes to see the native population lose their homeland. Some have a lot of respect for the natives and want to see them thrive. And leftist forget that destroying the identity of the natives is not enough if you want to create an anti-nationalist dystopia. You also have to destroy the identity of every immigrant. It's a never ending cycle.
On the subject of the SPD: An exit poll revealed that the majority of SPD voters in Brandenburg are at the same time dissatisfied with Olaf Scholz and his coalition. Many of the Brandenburg SPD voters were only interested in Woidke remaining in office or the AfD not coming in first place. It was even the case that Woidke deliberately did not invite federal SPD politicians like Scholz to his election rallies in order to keep the whole Ampel coalition away from him. So it's far from a comeback for him.
75% of spd voters said it was the larger priority , but the longer afd is a major player the more and more that will erode
Woidke is one of the very few german politicians who is in the green when it comes to approval ratings... Hell 68% of voters in Brandenburg wanted him to stay as the president. Somehow this includes 60% of AfD Voters... The AfD candidate had only 19% approval rating.
The AfD only got votes for national level stuff not for state level suff. the SPD in Brandenburg is seen as competent and capable of doing stuff. They improved the state by a lot ever since Woidke took the helm.
@@AlphaHorstyeah the SPD has the potential to be the best party if it only did actually Socialdemocratic stuff and not social-liberal
@@AlphaHorst "copetent" lmao, what a funny typo.
@@mst2082 What should they be doing differently than what they are doing? Because calling them liberals is very misleading
It wasn't just young voters - the SPD only won the 60+ age group, by a whopping 20 odd percent giving them a slight overall 1st place. The Afd had a sizeable lead in all under 60 age groups according to exit polls.
I feel that older voters aren’t as exposed to the issues of immigration as much as younger people as due to working their whole lives they live in relatively rich communities where low cost and asylum housing is rare , aswell as they consume mainstream sources that don’t talk about these issues as much
Old people saving us from fascist ❤️
@@Siegfried_DDT yeah those older generations could buy homes for cheap and now they own those houses.
while the younger generations keep getting ignored by political parties.
and then if they vote for the one party that at least mentioned the things those younger generations experience the established parties ignore their votes.
and that's why these parties keep growing.
you can't ignore a big group of your population and act like their struggles aren't real.
the established parties should acknowledge them and try to come up with solutions that (for once) don't negatively impact the younger people, and that make sure those younger people still have a future they want to be a part of.
@@Ck-mi5jpold people selling us to Islamofasc!sts🤮
braindrain in the east, propaganda from tiktok and the media now giving the nazis a platform
I'm so confused by your choice to use orange in the graphics to show the CDU, which is traditionally black in their colour on graphs.
I suspect black didn't look very well on their materials, and orange is the traditional colour of christian-democracy.
They used red like 2 years ago. Top Comment had 1000 likes and they answered, that they would look into it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Tl;Dr: here's a video about an international news story most media isn't covering.
Average viewer: yeah, but you made a spelling mistake at 5 mins 11 secs so you clearly don't know anything.
@@The_Midnight_Bearin Germany orange is the color of regional/liberal parties
@@nicolasmarazuela1010they used the same orange from their logo lol
The older generation has sold out the younger generation across Europe economically and socially.
That's why younger generations should become more active in politics. It's not always easy but with modern technology the threshold to start is lower than ever before.
This, and young Germans know this. They are reaping the results: uncertainty, high competition and rampant migration. How can one have hope for the future if you do not even recognize yourself in your own country?
@@Swedishfinnpolymath The young generation is the most active young generation in politics. No generation before was this active
@@fabianauer1986 Good. I am quite overworked, frustrated and really tired so I may not be exactly up to date of what is going on in the world right now.
But that's good to hear. I myself am dreaming of becoming a business man, philanthropist who funds cultural projects with business dealings.
@@fabianauer1986 Bold claims. Evidence?
The Afd actually performed 1 or 2% better than in the polls, but the SPD shot up to 1st with last minute tactical voting
That sounds familiar
@@michaelwellen2866France
any proof for that?
As far as I foudn the grees tried tactical voting to get seats but failed and the AfD shuffeled around candidates till the very end.
Sounds utterly made up to me
@@michaelwellen2866it’s so joever.
Nah, it's just some people being salty that the Afd lost.
I would say it's because the CDU and SDP haven't addressed any of the major concerns over the past decade. I remember hearing about the refugee crisis in Germany in 2014, the same way I still hear about it now. Over those 10 years, both major parties have just ignored the concerns that people have towards it, blaming it on racism or bigotry, and now a more radical party has embraced migration as a primary talking point. This isn't surprising at all, the writing for this kind of thing has been on the wall for years. If people grow up seeing both parties practically ignoring what the voters want, they'll lose faith in those two parties and go for something else.
This. And in particular the demographic paying the price for not addressing concerns will vote for any party that might. That’s a reliable outcome whether it’s young Germans for their reasons, or Canadians who rent homes for governments preventing housing development.
These shifts are fundamentally because prior governments made policy that punishes a near majority of voters. It’s not that suddenly those voters became bigoted or conservative.
Exactly, it doesnt help that the two 'main' Parties, amongst the establishment, CDU and SPD have ignored a LOT of issues over a long time and those they have adressed they only did so half-heartedly. 'Nicht Fisch, nicht Fleisch' as one would say in Germany. (Neither fish, nor meat - meaning that in essence it's neither the one nor the other and ends up being something inbetwen that doesnt sit right with anyone).
This can be seen in international politics, the economy, energy and immigration. Of course one shouldnt forget that a few issues like Housing, the High Tax burden and the IMMENSE national debts (afterall Germany is still paying off it's debts, reparations and whatnot from WW2 and the Marshall Plan), surely didnt make things easier and were always a hurdle.
But ultimately the 'Merkel era' can only say that it stood for stability except for the whole anti-nuclear energy turn and the change in the immigration policy.
Both of which were a turn-around from the previous course which was already lacking anyways, but was done half-assed.
Then there's also the international involvements with military missions abroad where Germany's politicians expected a severely underfunded and under-appreciated (and constantly scrutinized - because, guess what? If you cant make a career out of serving/fighting for your Country because the pay is shit, you will either only get those who have no other options [though with germany's welfare system that's not really the case] and those who love their country and could be considered either Patriots or Nationalists), to perform on a comparable level to the US; France and Great Britain - which is not to rag on the boys in the Bundeswehr, but there is a distinct difference.
In any case, the current Government isnt popular, Brandenburg has been run by the SPD for more than 30 years and while they didnt do badly, most consider Brandenburg less of a proper Federal State within germany and more of 'the surrounding countryside' of Berlin. - An asessment that isnt far away from the truth as most germans would struggle to name more than 3 Cities in Brandenburg and those three are most likely Potsdam (the Capital and sometimes referred to as 'Berlin's Suburb'), Brandenburg an der Havel (because 'duh, Brandenburg is in Brandenburg') and Frankfurt (mostly due to the City with the same name located at the river Main, rather than the one at the river Oder).
I am mildly surprised the AFD hasnt won, but they are in a powerfull position. Could there have been election fraud? Possibly. I know that 'mail in ballots' have come under severe scrutiny in many western countries as the political neutrality of many state institutions has been severely undermined in the past decade or so, so it's not beyond possibility that things might have been 'fudged' to some extent.
At the same time I also dont think that it's unlikely that many people didnt vote for what they wanted, but simply chose 'the lesser evil'.
Afterall almost since it's inception the AFD has been demonized and painted as the Devil incarnate or like the second-coming of Hitler, so many people would probably vote against the AFD (even if they arent against their policies or even agree with them), simply to not be labeled a 'Nazi'.
When the refugee crisis really started in 2015 (Merkel: "wir schaffen das"), there was some kind of strange euphoria in all the media (even Bild) in celebration of the German Willkommenskultur that had suddenly be willed into existence. Merkel [edit: corection, this was Göring-Eckardt of the Greens] announced that Germany was going to change into a different country. I am not making this up. And nobody thought about asking the regular voter whether they agreed. It didn't seem right to me then, and indeed here we are.
maybe Germany should import 600,000,000 more arabs, that should fix all the racism and bigotry
"No one really knows why" lol
maybe because current parties around the world suck ass most of them on the left
The one topic that shall not be named, because the people might start to question the multiculturalism propaganda pushed by the elite.
This is TLDR after all. I’m only here because I’m still deciding whether I think the TLDR staff are really in such a hopeless echo chamber or are just pretending to fit in with their fellow ideologues.
LMAO even
@@alx9rthey provide less annoyingly biased coverage of world politics than most channels, and are quick and to the point. But even if they wanted to, they couldn’t tell you the real reason this is happening, as it is illegal to do so in many countries!
Man acting like no one's quite sure why this shift happened really is the perfect example of why this shift happened lmao
perfect example are people like you to be honest, you really still think migration plays a major role in this when it doesn't
migration as a topic is a perfect vehicle for alt right or far right parties, no more no less
their policies are usually very much neoliberal because that's where their money comes from after all
neoliberalism caused all of problems we face today: housing, cost of living, bad infrastructure, lack of investment, bad social welfare, drug addiction, obesity
if you apply liberal policies you erode the basis of a society, you enable monetization of existential crisis
in a privatized housing market, homelessness is a plus, it allows you to charge more rent because people fear ending up on the street
the same can be said about the energy market, the war on drugs, war on terror, private education, private insurance, private pensions, etc.
@@benzo___Are you telling me a party like Der III Weg is economically neoliberal
There are less asylum seekers in East Germany where they get more votes
Why did this shift happen, Ruben?
@@randomhuman2595yet
Old generation sold the future of the younger generation
Exactly this. Older generations only care about keeping their pensions and property value save. Thats literally all they care about. They are not sitting inside of old crumbling school buildings and take their breaks on schooldyards where half of the people dont speak German. Younger generations have enough of taking the brunt of the problems of cost cutting and immigration
dont fall for jewish tactics. older people aren't your enemy. jews are
And? That's not a good reason to become a nazi.
@@Ricardo-mk2et before blaming old generation. Say, how many kids do you have or intend to have? Of course old people care about their pensions and how they would be paid if less young people are there. While young has a lot of time to mature and get the grasp of what's going on.
@@zedtrek I can tell you're a child.
If you think those are Nazis, you're not just young, you're a bit dim also.
Words have meanings. I'd suggest learning them if you want to be taken seriously by the adults.
The youth see and regret the future direction of their country on either side of the political spectrum, they do not wish to repeat the mistakes of their parents.
lol, let’s not make the mistake of our parents but repeat the parents of our grandparents … dumb as fuck…
And the gatekeepers get mad when people force a peaceful transfer of power through democratically elected processes, that they have no choice but to repeat the playbook of the authoritarian monikers of their past predecessors.
So they dont wish to repeat the mistakes of their parents, but their grand parents
They wish to repeat the mistake of their grandparents 🤦
@@ibrahimyilmaz4861 more like great grandparents, most "youths" grandparents were born during and after ww2
Pensioners and managerial leaders are the most benefited from cheap labor influx.
It's not just 44 seats that are determined by proportional representation. In Brandenburg, this number can increase to as many as 66 seats if the first-past-the-post voting disrupts the overall proportional composition of parliament.
When someone asks why, I'm just wondering whether people cannot think on their own what is the root cause or whether their memory is limited to two weeks.
Blind, stupid, ignorant, lives in a cave for the last 25 years...
All of the above? A 10 year old could tell you the answer after all.
Americans and british brains are blowing up worse that lebanese pagers, any time they hear of elections with more than 2 parties
If you impliment Weimar conditions you get Weimar outcomes.
Uninformed comparison
And suspiciously hinting at what should come after...?
AfD voters really aren't trying hard enough to pretend they're not fans of a certain painter
@@MoLauerIn the material sense maybe, but in terms of the political instability and infighting between democratic parties it is very similar
@@MoLauer not really, declining economy, inflation, massive increase in social degeneracy, except now it includes mass migration.
@@billy1168 ah yes, social degeneracy. What a normal thing to say in 2024.
I think young Europeans are seemingly more right wing because economic opportunity for young people is awful compared to 50yrs ago.
The economic model needs to be fixed to work for young people
What the hell are you talking about? It's nothing to do with anything else except the Islamic Invasion of Europe.
its literally just immigration...39% of under 18 in germany are not german
Its mass immigration...just say it
As a left wing person myself, I see the underlying issue in golbalisation and the resulting inequality.
Back in 1970 cooperations where still national. So the national government can regulate them and the owners allways have to make sure to get the support of there employees by giving them a fair share of the profit.
With globalisation companys now can choose where they locate their head quaters and plants.
So goverments have to give tax cuts and labour must be cheap, if not, they just move their production abroad.
This lead to more and more profits going to investors and less and less going to workers.
So to get to a good lifing standart with just doing a normal job, gets increasingly hard, because your have to compete with people that get their income from investments.
absolutely, I'm at least happy people across borders realize this, the international left still exists
but I'm honestly clueless how we can enact meaningful change, corporate media heavily favors liberalism
Tax cuts? In Germany? lol
Social Democrats want to subsidize the failed EVs after they have forced the automobile industry to focus only on EVs. That's what happens when you vote socialist.
While that is true, it is definetly not the real cause for Germany.
German Wages were always high yet Germany was still attractive for industry. Until the energy bills soared, consumption plummeted, infrastructure deteriorated, etc.
You know I always think that the commies and the far right should ally, I mean if you listen to either of their speeches it becomes pronounced that they effectively hate the same people for mostly the same reasons so why not put the pitchforks down for a just a while so that they can push the reforms they both agree with.
Anti establishment sentiments are always popular + the somewhat overall let down of main German parties with the political culture fit for pensioners and businessmen than anything else really makes you want to scream. Wealth inequality, lost social order compass and high property costs that make you financially inept or barelly so to care for yourself let alone starting a family, amount to something that can be used by political outsiders.
I don't disagree, but if you look at the financial policies the AfD proposes, you see that the AfD is staunchly pro bussiness people and the rich. Their tax and social propsals put rich people at a vast advantage and low and middle incomes at vast disadvantages. Low income housholds would pay more and high income housholds less. So those youths basically vote against their own interest.
It's not even that. In Europe people are just fed up of mass migration. That's why people are shifting.
Migration isn't a left/right topic though. The younger generations aren't "turning right", it's just that right-leaning parties have migration policies while the left ones do not.
@@Patrick-y4d1z Fully agree, if the left leaning parties would start doing something against mass illegal migration, AfD would fade. The Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance is a good example.
@@Patrick-y4d1z not true, right leaning parties are the ones that created the current situation in Germany especially
far right parties like AFD don't have any valid strategies or policies what so ever, you cannot magically deport millions of German citizens
there's a reason why so many people can't be returned to their state of origin, the ruling parties would have to be borderline stupid to not solve the problem if it was that easy
that's populism for you, suggest simple solutions for complex problems, rarely going to work
as demonstrated by what conservatives all over Europe did for the past 20 to 30 years
they're the ones that brought us the housing crisis, energy crisis, issues with migration, education and other sectors
because they were busy liberalizing markets and selling away average peoples' wealth for their own benefit
@@marcvb3364yeah but look at the recent coalition talks after the elections in saxonia and thuringia though. BSW made a lot of promises including about putting a stop to the mass importation of non-EU foreigners, but at the end when it comes down to turn their words into actions they just act like stepping stones for the old parties to reach ruling majority. They're a trojan horse cloaked under pleasant sounding promises.
Better question is why are you asking the questions to which we all know the answers
The Invasion of the believers of the Religion of Muhammad - Police be upon him
Young people witness "diversity" the most in their schools and in their day to day life.
Young people often tend to follow popular thrends without questioning them as much as people might believe..
Is this why almost no young people vote afd in berlin and hamburg and other huge cities with high migrant populations, but they do so in low immigrant tiny towns in east germany with like 5% migrants? Kinda shows the opposite being true.
@@XFlugtier And old people live in the past and cant look further
Day to day life? Same as everybody else then
Wrong, young people dont touch grass
Because young people are voting with the future in mind while the old ones are doing so with the past.
No one wants to get stabbed by a migrant in the future.
Issues like not being able to find an apartment or buy a house, difficulties in finding a secure well paying job, cost of living skyrocketing, energy bills, failing healthcare and education system, massive train delays and climate change are the main issues people (and especially young people think about). Sure, personal safety is an issue too - but Germany still has among the lowest crime rates in Europe so it’s not that 30% of people constantly fear being stabbed whenever they go outside, especially in rural Brandenburg.
From the start of 2015 to the end of 2017, 1,356,600 asylum seekers were registered in total According to a 2018 study by German criminologists, the crime rate of non-Germans between the ages of 16 and 30 is within the same range as that of Germans.n May 2016, U.S. fact-checker politifact suggested that, as crimes by immigrants rose 79 percent in 2015 and the number of refugees in the country rose by 440 percent, the crime rate among refugees was lower than that among German natives.
Granted the data is not the most recent but something must have gone extremely wrong for things to change dramatically.
@@Fluxwux sure buddy hust ignore the problem
Because Boomers have no idea what actually happen in Germany
Let’s see:
-Huge taxes
-Housing crisis
-Cost of living crisis
-Illegal immigration = high crime rates
-Stagnant wages
That’s why young people are unable to afford living & family
and you think the far right are going to solve any of these problems? good one
the "shift" in political climate, at least in Germany, is not based on policy making and content
corporate media heavily favors conservative and liberal policies, it's controlled by these groups
same goes for the far right, their funding mostly still comes from wealthy neoliberals
the parties that actually oppose the recent development (tax cuts, tax evasion, privatization, etc.)
are constantly berated by corporate media, may it be liberal or conservative, refer to the US for the extreme version of this
this creates a paradox situation: conservative parties are most similar to the far right yet constantly need to distance themselves from them
so populist voters switch to the far right and realist voters switch to other center, center right or center left parties
-Salafites literally chanting "kalifat in Deutschland"
Lets see:
Brandenburg has some of the lowest tayex of all federal states, in those three points where taxation is actually done on a state and not national level, so your point is wrong
Brandenburg faces depopulation and demolishes hundreds of thousands of houses each year, rents are the cheapest in all of germany even in the bigger cities like Cottbus Guben and Frankfurt, the only outliner woudl eb Potsdam which is essentially part of Berlin by now.
Brandenburgs inflation especially in the food sector is also lower than other states but as it is mostly shared it is a useless point for a state level election as it is a national issue and can not be solved on the state evel
"illigal immigration and high crime rate" Brandenburg faces lots of illigal immigration and now hosts the most federal police officers of any state and that is since 2015 unchanged, the total migration population in Brandenburg, going back to 5th generation immigrants is 4.9%. Just for first generation immigrants ever yother sate in germany except for thuringia has double or more that. thuringia is at around 8% so just below double. Crime has been fallin in Brandenburg for over a decade now and is almost exclusively done by germans
Wages in Brandenburg have seen the highest rate of increase of all federal states
Or in short. Literally every single point you made is wrong or irrelevant as it is not a state but national issue.
Go educate yourself before speaking
" high crime rates "
this is BS blown up by the media
the only place in germany where crime rates are somewhat high is in the major cities but thats to be expected
germany has a larger immigration rate then britain and france
but a lot lower crime statistics
@@AlphaHorst Its the food prices and inflation
the Proplems are that when times are bad people will allways blame the goverment
and while ampel had proplems i wouldnt exactly blame them for these things
espcially as the food prices come from the russian invasion and more severe climate trough climate change
Proplem is young voters often dont understand the context behind the Proplems and only see the goverment as a proplem
It’s a very common question to ask. The precise answer is no nobody is shifting far right but nobody’s understanding why Germany should pay the entire world. Nobody wants people living in their country that do not respect the culture.
Far-right is such an empty slognan.
In Poland most economically left leaning party, that opened Poland to record numbers of migrants, unmatchdd by any other party is called "far-right" because they also made more restrictive abortion laws. Okay, the last one is definitely right wing but you can't ignore 99% of the rest that party was doing only because they were pro-immgration but not up to the western Europe standards few years ago...
Weird that the young people in Brandenburg don't see the huge benefits that mass-immigration brings, considering that it's so close to Berlin and how great it works there.
Oh. Oh yeah. I see.
Not saying that the SPD incumbent leader who is popular not being one of the main reasons they won is ridiculous and biased
This channel is very much: look we're smart, educated, understand a bit of economics and are not the MSM, now swallow the big govt. & big corpo propaganda you coughed up when it came from ARD/ZDF etc.
True. Another thing is probably that TLDR are mostly London-based and too small to have a big network in Germany, and so they have to rely largely on German MSM media and their narratives.
@@Pattern_Noticer such dir Hilfe du Jockel
American here. As I see it the younger generation doesn't feel it should continue to pay for the sins of their forebearers.
When politicians say "our democracy", what they mean is "my power".
Yeah, Right-Left is dead, it's establishment vs anti-establishment now
The economic strategy in Germany and many other European countries is to do nothing against the shrinking native populations but to promote or allow the settlement of qualified, unqualified or illegal migrants from distant cultures instead. Why would the youth in Europe have a problem with that? They are losing their homelands!
Most of these young voters aren't far-rightists; there is a legitimate concern on the state of immigration in Germany which they feel that only the AfD is strong enough to address.
Strategies like cordon sanitaires might keep the AfD out of government, but these young voters will feel even more justified.
"Strong enough to address"? you don't have to be strong at all to address anything. Where you have to be strong, and probably experienced, is when it comes to solutions. The AFD has none of those.
AfD isn’t “far right”, either.
Maybe the young voters are not far right. But sadly they are stupidly paving the way into the government for those extremists who are really able to destroy everything that has been achieved in the past 80 years.
@@peterfireflylund
Right. It's partially extremist right...
@@peterfireflylund it absolutely is.
I could give you the reason why young people are voting for the AfD, but TH-cam wouldn't like the answer.
I think we can live without knowing your very special answer to that
@@soundscape26 It's a pretty common answer, not special at all.
@@marcvb3364 The reasons are in the video itself, not sure what else can the OP add that we don't know already.
@@soundscape26 The video didn't really delve into the migrant problem that much. On the WHY of it. WHY are young people so against migration outside of the EU.
And that is what TH-cam don't want to hear :)
@@soundscape26 And! It's absolutely titillating that most of you also know what I'm talking about! It's exhilarating to know that I'm starting to become the majority now!
People are very conserned about there money. They dont care about the enviorment if they cant afford to do so. Thats also why the FDP go so few votes; they make politic for the ritch and if you have no money you dont care about that.
It’s very simple: Immigration, immigration, immigration.
The youth, of all groups in Germany, are getting the closest look to what a non-white future in Germany is going to look like. They experience it in school, in bars, everywhere they go.
The German youth do not want to become a minority in their own country. Some folks with a migrant background within Germany are also sympathetic to the AfD because they also would prefer that Germany remains German. After all, that’s what they immigrated to.
YES! It's so simple. People just want to think of other reasons. There are none! I became a single issue voter after going to school with immigrants from muslim backgrounds. That was all it took for me to realize there is only one thing that matters when voting and that is the Islamic invasion.
@@lawrencefrost9063 5% percent of a population is an invasion? Single issue voter is a very politicians way of stating you're a racist
@@KH-mn7bt yea ? but the signs of 20 million people getting deported is an outrageous thing to support. So, half Germans and people born here and stayed all their life must be sent out. Sent out to where ? In what way it's different from Nuremberg laws ??
@@indijones14 you're being alarmist. No one is saying deport all Muslims. They are saying:
- Ease up immigration, specifically from outside Europe.
- make the requirement for immigrants to embrace their new home country and follow it's values.
- focus on opportunities for the national work force over cheap foreign labour.
These aren't racist radical policies.
Nice so u didnt think about the issue, u just trying to find the "easiest" way out and kill the econemy for the future, rly mature.
Young men in Germany feel left behind and no longer represented. As the government moved increasingly towards the identitarian left, refugees, foreigners, women trans & lgbt issues got increasingly more prioritized. And on the other side of the isle the CDU and FDP stopped caring about young people and shifted their focus to please their geriatric voter base. Now the economy is in shambles, the infrastructure is crumbling, the education system is worse than some third world countries and opportunities for young men are drying up. Add to that the rising problems of drugs and violent crimes committed by badly integrated immigrants and of course young men desperately want a change.
Note that this is a former East German state, and East Germany is full of incels as the women got educated and left for the west.
Young men seemingly don't want to get educated, can't grow up and unsurprisingly they fall behind their female counterparts.
This is factually not true. Brandenburg is the state with the strongest economic growth in all of germany. Being the only state that has a steady +2% growth each year. For over 30 years. What are people protesting? That the economy does good in brandenburg? I have been there. I live in saxony anhalt. Brandenburg is an economic powerhouse. But the fascists are strong sadly.
@@herroberbesserwisser7331 OP is just an incel.
@@herroberbesserwisser7331 Brandenburg an economic powerhouse? Are you high? Barely any people live there. It’s one of the economically weakest states. Not hard to grow from there. The gdp probably grows by 2% every time a rich person from Berlin moves there.
@@WandererTau Populismus 101 - seine faktisch korrekte Antwort diffarmieren und inhaltlich nicht darauf eingehen
die Nazis sind nicht an die Macht gekommen weil es Hyperinflation und eine schwache Weimarer Verfassung gab
die sind an die Macht gekommen, weil Kapitalismus und Demokratie sich grundsätzlich widersprechen und zu Faschismus führen
man kann nicht Jahrzehnte lang Märkte liberalisieren, staatliche Ausgaben für sämtliche Sektoren reduzieren und dann erwarten, dass der gesellschaftliche Zusammenhalt einfach so weiterbesteht - Konzerne und Superreiche zahlen heute effektiv keinen € an Steuern mehr während Lohn und Gehalt sowie Kapitalerträge für den Durchschnittsbürger nach wie vor massiv besteuert werden, dazu Privatisierung in Bereichen wie Strommarkt, Bahn, Immobiliensektor, Landwirtschaft, usw.
Neoliberalismus zerstört die Grundsätze unserer Demokratien, auch die AFD ist eine neoliberale Partei, dafür reicht ein Blick ins Steuerprogramm
das fällt noch liberaler aus als das der FDP und das ist auch das was man als gebildeter Mensch nicht so ganz versteht
die AFD "wirbt" mit dem Thema Migration, Migration ist nicht verantwortlich für die marode Deutsche Bahn, die schlecht aufgestellten Behörden, die Bundeswehr, Polizei, Staatsanwaltschaften oder Schulen denen das Personal fehlt, Migranten hinterziehen auch nicht Milliarden an Steuern im Jahr
das sind Probleme die es nachhaltig zu lösen gilt
Because they're realising that the Boomers and GenX have sold them out.
Those kids grew up in a multicultural Germany, something those 70+ never did. "Wow I wonder why they voted for AfD?!".
not a single young person in germany has ever ditched the greens for the afd. the new anti-ampel offensive of the afd has just mobilized a new set of young people to vote at all.
That's why the greens are single-digit figures for the first time in a long time
@@Ghreinos voter churning is polled and reported on, what op said is correct
we can look at Brandenburg to understand what happened within the Greens voter base:
the Greens lost approx. 50.000 voters to SPD, 5.000 to CDU, 5.000 to BSW, 3.000 to AFD, and 2.000 to non-voters
the Greens voter base heavily opposes far right populism, these two are the biggest opposing sides in virtually all measures
may it be economic situation, outlook on society, education levels, employment rates, etc.
Wrong. I have.
My take as an anti-AfD young german is that many youths feel neglected and betrayed by older parties and are troubled by the recent developements regarding migration. In comes the AfD that does nothing but talk about how bad the older parties are and how they're gonna deport all the troublesome muslims. And when you're feeling all these bad emotions parties that yell out all their frustrations and offer easy to understand solutions are more appealing. And once the AfD has your interest it is very easy to convince you that all the warnings of them being dangerously far to the right and don't offer any solutions other than "immigrant bad" are just lies told by an evil system trying to discredit and eliminate a threat to their reign.
In short: The other parties are leaving the young behind and the only ones giving the appearence of being there for them are even worse.
exactly this, well said
Trust me pal, you have no Idea how dangerous a heavy muslim populated Germany would be. Just look at the present situation of nations like Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. This religious community is horrible and crazy as hell. You are lucky to never live under the 'muslim majority' society.
honestly couldn't say it better
@@eisbergsyndrom5010 you have no Idea of how dangerous it is to live under a heavy muslim populated Germany. Just look at the situation of another religious groups in the nations like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. That is a total hell for them. You have no idea how crazy this community will be once they get population boost in Europe.
yeah, that's basically what populism is
It's almost as if not addressing the structural issues facing Germany (and not bad faith immigration "concerns") has consequences.
It’s almost as if treating anti immigration concerns as bad faith items that need to be ignored has consequences
@@mrttripz3236 the AfD's concerns are bad faith. There are issues, but listening to the far right will only make them worse.
@@missm10keep on being arrogant about the concerns of certain voters and see where that leads…
quoting "concerns" as if they aren't legitimate
@@missm10Really unfortunate that your second comment was hidden
Young people had to go to school with the children of the immigrants. They can see the disaster better than anyone.
This! I'm one of them. I remember people saying "People fear what they don't understand, once you get to know Muslims you no longer fear them. Well I went to school in Finland with many Muslims and my understanding increased and my fear was not diminished, it was fortified. Fear of Islam is justified. I am a single issue voter and that issue is Islam.
@@lawrencefrost9063Islam is bad
@@stevenspam7219 And your confession is a better one? Which one?
@@ichmeinmal9458 In their countries they literally jail and behead gays so, Islam = dangerous
@@lawrencefrost9063 but where these people bad because they were muslim? Or was it more because they were extremists or something like that
Turns out, inviting 2 million military aged men from a foreign hostile culture with a medieval religion was not a good idea.
"medieval religion"? LOL... wut? Also... "2 million military aged men"? Wut?
You earned an upvote!!
@@herlandercarvalholook at how they treat gay people or women , or their views on death penalty or how they view “infidel” non Muslims
Between 2015 and 2022, Germany received over 1.5 million refugees and asylum seekers, from various countries including Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and others impacted by war and instability. 50% were women and children.
@@herlandercarvalho
Their religion demonizes homosexuals, other religions, and what they perceive to be blasphemous to their faith. They demand the subjugation and subservience of women and are socially backward.
And since 2014 more than 10 million illegal migrants from Africa and the Middle East have flooded into Europe . More than 2 million of them being men.
These men have since committed a litany of crime and formed gangs plaguing their host countries.
Because the per capita crime statistics by ethnic/nation origin in places like Denmark that collect them are stark and cannot be ignored
With crime statistics you always have to be careful. In criminology 101 one thing they teach you is that crime figures are always tricky to interpret. For example, most pickpocketing is done by poor people and a lot is done by illegal immigrants as a way to survive and that´s a fairly easy crime to spot.
However, most business/tax fraud is done by people who are pretty privileged, i.e White, wealthy, well connected it´s harder to detect, and people get away with it much more often.
That´s before you even factor in things like racial bias in the police, which we know is a problem in most police forces. There are other biases too, there are biases against poor people, there are biases against people who are neurodivergent etc.
That means you need to be really careful when you read crime statistics.
@@Siegfried_DDT well, I´m afraid I think that belief is a little naive. Look how many politicians and businessmen we know are involved in criminality of some sort and how few of them get arrested.
The system effectively protects those people.
@@MinimmalmythicistI agree there will always be a level of bias but for example East Asian immigrants and Indian immigrants were incredibly low in those statistics , two groups that’s experienced racism yet commit lower crime so there is clearly a trend that must not be ignored
@@Minimmalmythicist don't mind, he's not interested in facts, he has a narrative and he will stick with it
"brown people bad" - the foreigners are all uneducated, poor and unemployed but somehow steal our jobs at the same time /s
@@Minimmalmythicist"These stats say that most gang related deaths are by non europeans" "The stats must be racist and biased against poor people!!!!"
migration. simple as can be
Why is the CDU presented in orange, as opposed to black?
Black is their traditional colour in graphs and orange is not only similiar to the yellow of the FDP, another party called BVB/Free Voters are usually shown in orange
There´s a few things that need to be stated so this figure isn´t seen in a misleading way.
One thing is that the vast majority of young people didn´t vote AFD, 30% did in those elections, meaning that 70% did not vote AFD.
Another thing is that plenty of young people don´t vote, I think extending the vote to 16 year olds was insane, they´re way too immature.
Another thing is that these results are for East Germany, in the West the picture may well be different.
Certainly a sweeping generalisation like "young Germans have ditched the Greens for the AFD" isn´t true. As there was never a time when a majority voted for either party.
16 years old voted? wtf. And yeah, the news always makes such a big issue about huge gains by the far right when it's barely a few %. 51%, then we're talking about significance shift in voter opinion.
You are correct
Good point, but I still don't know anyone who will vote for the Greens. My leftist friends generally support other more traditionally materialist parties.
This guy's voice is so calming
the mainstream parties have failed to adress the economic concerns of the people to what they percieve as an anti-establishiment movement, the AFD however coudn't be a more liberally economic party, that is why they avoid talking about their own economic policies and focus on imigration rethoric, they know their economic policies would be very much unpopular or at least exactly the same as a mainstream liberal party
exactly
The older people do not change their minds on politics or their votes, it's not important what happens in the country. Like 60+ age SPD and CDU voters, they are like fanatics ultras about their political decisions.
That's why change always comes with new generations!
People outside of Brandenburg pre vote: "There´s only old far right people living off social money in the east!!!"
People outside of Brandenburg post vote: "Oh no, young people voted the far right into power, I knew this is going to happen!!!"
That´s what you get when so many people talk about a state they never once in their live visited and likely never will.
man sollte nicht vergessen, dass die Altersgruppen natürlich nicht gleichmäßig die Bevölkerung repräsentieren
alleine die Gruppen 40 bis 59 und 65+ stellen über 50% der Bevölkerung
I didn't say that and everyone who is just slightly interested in politics wouldn't as in the EU election the AfD performed very well for young voters. And if one is watching social media they are everywhere.
Sure they are. The young generation sees all the problems of migration on the streets and in the school yards. They feel it every day. And they start to see the pattern of which who are the people behaving bad.
It has more with economic issues, housing market and the insane labor market that makes young people feel left behind and feeling like they for the first time in history have it worse than their parents generation in terms of fulfilling their dreams - and that no other party than the AFD has achieved what they promise. Blaming Immigrants, brown people and “woke” is however a really malicious way of simplifying the solution to these economic issues that sounds really good in TV debates and on Social media. Even if it’s a ridiculously infantile and straight up nonsensical way of solving these issues, meaning AFD doesn’t have a plan.
Crime and immigrantion is a real issue, yes. But it’s extremely over exaggerated, because 99% of immigrants are good people and a very small minority has been victims or know someone victim of a violent migrant crime which is still rare in Germany with one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
I do think however that isolating the AFD is the main reason for their growth. Let them take some responsibility and then they’ll prove that they are even more incompetent than the establishment to solve issues. In Denmark for example, the far right collapsed from 20% to 4% the first term they got to have some real responsibility, the same pattern is seen in other countries as well.
Migration is not a federal issue.
So anyone who voted afd in brandenburg because of migration is just stupid and does not know how the german state functions.
Facts are: Under Woidke and teh SPD Brandenburg was on the up, with the highest rate of wage increase in the last decade of all german states. It is the state with the best kept schools, while even in Bavaria many schools face closure due to rotting away. Brandenburg has renovated schools non stop for the past 20 years.
then tghere is also the fact that just 4.9% of brandenburgs population is actually an immigrant or someone with a migration background, including people up to the 5th generation... For comparrison. NRW has 14% just new immigrants since 2013.
No... They live in Brandenburg. Please don't talk about things you know nothing about.
@@Fluxwux99% yeah Sure buddy
@@NicolasHaufe How big of a percentage of all immigrants or all non EU immigrants commit violent non-misdemeanor crime? It’s not over 1%. That would be many tens of thousands or up towards a hundred thousand people. If it was way more than 1% or even as little as like 2-3% - we would notice that quickly and Germany would have Brazil levels of crime 😅
So much cope in the comments, it’s wild
The left got the greatest difficulty looking inwards. It is almost reminiscent of the Catholic Church at this point.
@@Elucidator- do you think so? I don't
"the left" is historically weak in Germany ever since the Nazis killed and deported 90% of them in the 40s
if you look at the last elections on state level, the Greens, SPD and Linke have all cultivated a steady amount of voters no matter the age
the current "change" in political climate is basically just middle aged and first voters voting far right populists instead of conservative populists
the trend is the same in any German state: Union and SPD poll highest among the voters 60 years of age and above
Union loses heavily with each age group, SPD dips in the middle age group and then rises again among voters below 35
the conservative voter base splits up between populist choices like AFD or BSW on one side and more realist choices like SPD, Greens or FW on the other
they have not found a coherent strategy to stop is, I'm sure most of them don't even realize it
same thing that has happened in the US, the UK or virtually any other capitalist democracy
@@Elucidator- It's no coincidence; the left shares it's morality and ethics with Catholicism on most issues. Just without the whole God and Jesus component.
Another reason to consider is that older people have established social groups and are less likely to completely switch their political stance by voting for the AfD. It's like suddenly becoming a Republican after being a decade-long democratic voter, especially since the SPD changed their position with regard to migration policy.
Im 16 and I might be voting for the AfD in the next election
Do you support Russia?
They probably don't support Russia. Also, they probably don't want to get into a war with Russia, either. Seems very reasonable that they would vote in a more radical party that wouldn't use them as cannon fodder in a World or nuclear war, or a party that promises to fix the economy (rampart inflation, rent, criminality, electricity, etc). I doubt AFD will manage, but at least they speak about problems that people care...
younger people have gotten a bad deal by older generations, but they are also easily impressionable through propaganda
Gen z are probably the least susceptible to propaganda
Because they are young and don’t want to live in a third world country
Germany third world?!?😂 I wonder what that makes South Sudan
They don't. They live in a second world country.
@@matthewparker9276 the terminology is dated anyways and just blatantly stereotypical
@@hydromic2518No one wants to be America
The world is a mess.
I'm 32 and I've only started voting to vote the AfD. Half my neighbors can't even talk to me, neither in English, nor in German.
The country is unsafe, not economically competitive, and the government's institutions are failing.
Radical reforms are needed and no other party is even considering that.
In 10-20 years, voting "far right" will mean voting for a Caliphate.
well, try to look past migration and the whole narrative around it for a second
e.g. on paper the Greens propose a strong shift and policy reform to reestablish a strong state that supports its citizens and corporations
what the AFD considers is exactly what happened for the past 30 years: neoliberalist capitalism
they want to reduce taxes and welfare spending even further and demount the state all together
exactly this is the cause for the cost of living crisis we find ourselves in today
energy, infrastructure, public railway, telecommunications, postal office - privatized, lack of investment, down the drain
Funny, the elderly in my country usually vote for populists
Germany is a special case. The boomers from today were the ones who asked questions about our Nazi past and got to enjoy all the education surrounding that topic.
And Germany has been a very safe, strong and economically booming country for well over half of every boomer's life under the control of either the SPD or CDU, which created a special type of loyalty.
Germany was decimated by Covid and then knocked out by the Ukraine war like no other nation, since we were completely dependent on an ever so increasingly globalizing world.
And, as TLDR would probably tell you, that trend of globalization and interconnectivity between countries all across the globe basically halted in 2020 and basically started to reverse since Feb 2022.
Germany is doomed for this decade and I'm afraid of what's going to happen in the 30s.
Why does whole europe force us to choose between a slow spiral downwards into despair or a swift and immediate collapse?
Man.
Why cant we have a normal party for once :(
The main reason for the SPD victory was that their candidate distanced himself as much as possible from the federal government and chancellor Scholz. They didn't campaign together once, and he even erased the partys logo on some of his election posters.
Great report - thanks. So at last the youth are realizing that they don't want to live under Sharia law !? I hope the same idea reaches the UK before it's too late.
The AfD received 29% of the vote overall, and 32% of the young vote. That's an increase, but not by much. The reason for the AfD's lead with young voters appearing so strong, is that way fewer young voters voted for the SPD (18% vs 31%) and more for smaller parties like the Greens or the Left.
In my opinion, the main reason for the SPD doing much better in Brandenburg than in Saxony or Thuringia, is that the SPD is the strongest non-AfD party in Brandenburg. In the other two states that role goes to the CDU. Polls indicate that in each state a lot of people voted for the strongest non-AfD party to deny the AfD a symbolic election victory.
He is truly the best host
Easy, because afd Iistens to the needs of young peopIe and tries to give them what they need; the other parties just dismiss the worries of the younger generation without taking them into account
But, according to a recent report by DW, the only reason people voted for the SPD was to keep the AfD out of power. That's not very promising and leaves the SPD in a very precarious position. It's like the anybody but Trump vote in America. Trump hasn't gone anywhere and is as strong as ever.
The young realising only they can save there country
The people are tireeeed of the migrants!!!
People are tires of specific types of immigrants , for example south East Asian , East Asian , Polynesian , Australasian immigrants etc etc integrate very well and are peaceful while others the the opposite
only the western asian kind.
Good to see the young Europeans waking up, with luck Britain will follow.
Bloody hell I was not expecting that good news with young people voting that is a very pleasant surprise. Finally some good news for once that is a nice change compared to hearing bad news over and over again all the time.
Because liberalism has failed
Woah did I just watch a video about the AFD witbout the video calling them some extremist right wing party?
They are at the very least legally speaking *led* by right wing extremists, the German state has clearly stated as much
(They are also just right wing extremists in general - not all voters, but most party members)
@@mladen5140 No this is just your interpretation
@@Geny no, the Afd elite and leaders are traditionally what we could call "right wing extremists", they tick all of the boxes of radical (in the current sense of the word) right wing outlook society, and most of them range from apathetic to supportive of national socialist policies and heritage, and i know what i'm talking about since i'm one
@@Geny It's actually not. The german constitutional court ruled, that parts of AFD are legally rightwing extremists. While the whole party is a suspected case of being right wing extremist.
@@GenyNo mate, they are the neo-nazi extremist party, that will never change, when you are the heirs to the worst event that will ever follow you.
Islam will not replace us
What if I told you...
Germany is for Germans. Or at the very least Europeans.
No one really knows why? .. Hmmm ..
Is it something related to
1 Crime
2 Housing shortages
3 Reverse discrimination
4 Lectured from here to where you are living
No one knows why? Ha!
Very simple answer: The AFD is on TikTok, the other Parties aren´t. (Really, their presence is negligible)
Except for the Left maybe, but the left maneuvered themselves out with years of prioritizing identity politics over real politics.
More of this guy please, very pleasant to listen to him
the other guy is annoying as hell.
Because the young generation believes that voting Afd to power can solve their money and affordability crisis while blatantly ignoring the structural failures in the system.
BECAUSE THE AFD LOVE GERMANY AND SO DO YOUNG GERMANS!
🎵Oh Fatherland, Fatherland show us a sign, your children are waiting to see
The morning will come when the world is mine, tomorrow belongs to me!🎵
Keep on ignoring us. Before you notice, you'll get a different owner, tldr news.
Zac's voice when hosting compared to his podcast appearences are huge
Native German here.
The AfD have been extremely efficient in controlling the public conversation around migration, they have been pushing for more and more extreme measures and the other parties have been willing to go along with it. We haven't been talking about anything other than migration, which is a pity because there are so many other important issues to deal with. And considering that the conservative party has been seen as being responsible for integrating the last wave of refugee migration in 2015, they aren't seen as sufficiently racist and anti-migrant, so racist votes go the AfD only.
Another reason for this is that the AfD has been extremely effective in their social media propaganda, especially on TikTok.
But as the polls in the video show, young people are not the more racist ones, in fact they are less racist, they are just the earliest to jump on the AfD bandwagon right now, as the AfD has been sufficiently normalized now, while older people are still attached to more established parties. So young people here are just the first ones to jump onto a general right-wing trend in society, but older people will follow very soon, as they are in fact the drivers of it.
Anything I don't like is propaganda and I am the real rebel when I repeat the slogans of Vetternwirtschaft politicians and the global corporations.
It isn't raycis to want your nation to remain your nation and not become a free for all who want gibs.
Gut auf den Punkt gebracht
If you are German. You probably know that Hitler came to power democratically through voting. history repeats itself😎
Native german here agrees.
I also feel like the german public education system has massively failed these people. I would bet money on it that a solid part of the age group talked about does not even understand how the german political system (Bundesregierung, Bundestag, Bundesrat, Bundestags - vs Landtagswahlen, etc.) works. They are simply given neither enough good information and knowledge nor the tools on how to acquire those things. Instead that void gets filled with what you mentioned, social media propaganda and misinformation.
Fun fact, im not sure about other countries but in germany specifically there is a data trend where the less immigrants / refugees / citizens with a foreign background live in an area, the more right wing it tends to be. There are great maps that show this, and i think it says alot.
I am by no means saying that there arent any problems with refugees and how immigration and integration are handled in general, but the AfD sure as shit isnt the solution for those.
Until the two knife attacks where a policeman died and the terrorist attack in Solingen, migration was still a major theme but not the only one and since than, knife attacks have been reported daily in major and minor news channels. The AfD doesn't have to be efficient, the current situation in all of Europe is anti-immigration.
Boomers in every country always against the youth who will be left to deal with poor choices of old people. Selfishness knows no bounds with the boomers.
I can give you like 10 reasons off the top of my head in the middle of the night. 17 if I'm sober.
The reasons for the spds success in Brandenburg was that they tried to come over as different as possible from the federal party. Especially Dietmar Woidke as Brandenburgs prime minister was extremely important that’s why the media is calling it Woidkes and not the SPDs win. Olaf Scholz and the SPD is so unpopular in fact that Dietmar Woidke avoided ANY public contact with the German Chancellor during the election whatsoever. He made sure to not invite him to any campaigning event and did not want to be seen on photos with him. So no buddying up to fascists did not help them win Woidke choosing to almost run a independent campaign from the federal party did!
One very important point on comparing 18-24 year old opinions compared to older generations is that a far, far higher proportion of 18-24 year olds are of immigrant backgrounds, and non-white. The support of young white people for the far right is therefore even higher than the overall 18-24 figures would suggest, since the non-white 18-24 vote left and generally support immigration from outside the EU..
Actually wouldn't bank on it. People from immigrant background are very often anti-immigration, they don't have any sentiments about it most of the time and they seen the negatives from closest perspective.
Maybe people like that won't be voting AfD but will vote left wing anti imk8gra option.
@@andrzejnadgirl2029 Where is there a demonstration of this? It seems that in every country, people of immigrant backgrounds enter politics and push for radical and suicidal migration policies, as seen in my country, Australia. In the US, it is literally a divide between white people (Republicans) and everybody else (Democrats) when it comes to voting.
Its because the said they will build cheap houses for 1st time buyers and they said they will build over a million a year, and they cant do it, but hey kids Santa is real
I don't think migration is that much of a concern for younger voters, they are fed up with a government that is not acting in their best interest but only prioritizing itself and business. People who are now 18 years old were born in 2006, they have lived through the great recession, the euro crisis, the refugee crisis in 2015, the climate crisis, covid crisis, Ukraine war and now again a recession. Since they are alive there has not been a single year without any major crisis, so of course they long for stability and order, that is what the AfD promises them, even though they can never achieve that because the issues are so far greater than Germany. That us why young people worldwide are shifting to either the left or the right.
Mass immigration is an example of the government prioritising the interests of big business and landlords at the expense of the young and working classes.
@@wb8233 immigration is one of the few examples of a thing that benefits everybody as long as it's done right. The problem is when mass migration happens but no resources are invested into integration and people who immigrated are concentrated into ghettos instead of being dispersed throughout the country. Both of which are mistakes the government made.
@@domnininImmigrants there own agency. Its not societeies fault that they dont integrate.
@@domninin This. The Netherlands is trying to solve this by limiting funding to refugee camps and stop prioritizing approved refugees for homes. Will this end the housing crisis? This will hardly even help it. Will it result in a bunch of stressed-out refugees all living together and finding it difficult to learn the language and work at the same time while also sharing their living space with 10 other people half of which refuse to keep things clean? Yes. Will they be distributed more evenly into the Dutch society? No. Will they be blamed for not wanting to integrate? Yes.
@@TheSlyngel it is societies fault if they don't get work permits for 10 years after arrival, kids don't get school education for years after arrival, they can't get housing so are forced to live in refugee accomodations with 10 other people in a room for years on end where they don't get any contact to Germans, if they get housing it's in Ghettos with majority foreigner population. Integration is a two way street, without work, friends, a car or contact to Germans, how are they supposed to integrate?
"No one really knows why" 😂
The yought is more affected by the negative sides of the migration policy.
Because young people are usually du mb. Whether they are leftists or rightists.
The amount of far-left people I have encountered in this comment section is really concerning
Probably because to you everything left of the AfD is a far left Communist
so anyone who thinks brown people are humans are far left to you?
I am not to concern as far right parties have been a thing for a long time. If both far ideologies are on the rise it means that something is seriously wrong and parties are forced to co-operated to find a solution.
TH-cam is part of the establishment and it doesn't like when natives notice the changes that are happening. Immagine actually thinking that not wanting mass immigration make you a racist.
"Everyone left of me is far-left"
- Gentleman130
3 shiny Pokémons?!
The mainstream German parties have got two choices before then ...either they keep on ignoring AFDs concern and call them all sort of names and let them rise or try working with them ,cordon sanatire doesn't always works
And i think thats a mistake, dont go with the far far right afd concerns but actually go with the concerns of the people. don't adabt right wing talking points like the fdp and cdu are doing but actually try to do something for the working majority of the people, that are afraid of not putting enough food on the table, losing their jobs and not being able to retier
I think you are really underestimating just how radical the afd are
working with afd = enabling fascism. that's how you get the fourth reich. read history, that's literally how nazis came to power.
@@user-pu4ro7hm6pI think you are really underestimating just how moderate the AFD are
@@dracorawth8962But there is a point to be made that antagonizing an entire group of people isn't exactly a democratic solution. Plus, ppl rly underestimate the power that parties in the opposition have
You didn't analyse who will can form a government.The SPD is forced to collaborate with the BSW🤩
When Germany gets worse and worse and the leftie power block holds power, who else to blame?
leftie power block? in what parallel universe?
Germany was governed by a center right coalition for 16 years straight, conversatives and liberals have been most influential on the political spectrum
many aspects of German society have been privatized over the years and policy making as a whole was very conservative generally speaking
privatization of public railway sector, privatization of postal services, privatization of the energy market and utilities sector as a whole
social welfare spending as % of GDP has decreased steadily, corporate tax cuts have been made, financialization of the markets, etc.
there has been some left leaning policy making in the early 2000s, e.g. subsidies for renewables were introduced, that's about it
German concern on the immgration i"issue" is undertandable considering that 14% of the total residents in Germany are not german citizens....
Gee, I wonder why !!!!!!!!
The thing is there will be a lot of non educated young adults on this situation especially people in east Germany who got fed up with how the west doesn't care about them, remember kids facismo is capitalism in decline
AFD is doing better with young voters because Syria and Turkey.
Turkey more than anything, as Turks have become citizens by now and are big Erdogan supporters, so they vote AfD.
And Afghanistan now , people think it’s fine to leave a country due to horrible conditions under radical Islam and hen try to force Islam on everyone else in their new country , it’s so odd
@@fungo6631 Turks are not voting for AfD lol.
@@DCCCXVII of course they are. They came to Germany and had to work their asses off to stay here.
They hate the new free-loaders as much as any of the natives do.
@@DCCCXVII Some of them are. You know, not every member of a minority group wishes to see the native population lose their homeland. Some have a lot of respect for the natives and want to see them thrive.
And leftist forget that destroying the identity of the natives is not enough if you want to create an anti-nationalist dystopia. You also have to destroy the identity of every immigrant. It's a never ending cycle.
The Afd hat exactly the same result that the polls predictet. They didnt underperform the polls but the SPD ooverperformed the polls.