AfD election success in Saxony-Anhalt: Voters hurt people around them

The AfD election result in Saxony-Anhalt marks a turning point. The text first emphasizes that the many votes for the party do not affect the “system” in the abstract, but rather people in the immediate vicinity of the voters who now have to be more afraid of authoritarian and racist ideas. He then describes that many AfD supporters did not act out of mere frustration, but consciously chose a well-known world view, even though the party openly advocated German national education, pressure on opponents and exclusion of so-called “passport Germans” during the election campaign. The article then refers to intimidation during election campaigns and to studies that show that authoritarian and violent attitudes are widespread in Saxony-Anhalt and that many people understand democracy as domination over others. In the end, the author rejects the interpretation as a mere wake-up call to established parties and concludes that many AfD voters have turned away from community and empathy in a right-wing parallel world that is far removed from the facts.

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It is not yet certain whether the AfD will soon appoint its first prime minister in Magdeburg. What is already clear is that the hundreds of thousands of people who put their cross with the AfD on Sunday really ruined something. Not in the EU, in the “system” or in the alleged left-green establishment. It's the people close to them that they've jumped into the back of. Family members, work colleagues, neighbors who have to be afraid of this party and its fantasies. Also because the AfD, right up to the radiant Ulrich Siegmund, repeatedly reinforced these fears. His voters obviously didn't care.