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Things are getting serious here, and I don’t think people are as concerned as they should be, people trust the system will hold.
From the outside looking in, it does feel like Germany and France are ignoring a lot of the warning signs that other countries have fallen into with regards to rising fascist movements.
Germany's always seemed like this semi-utopic heart of Europe that learned all the right lessons from its history and miraculously emerged free and strong despite everything. But I'm worried there's been more laurel-resting than progress as of late, and the seeds of discontent are taking root.
We've had nothing but politicians working with americanism and populism for the last 25 years, people have become stupid and lazy. I remember the last time a right-wing populist party had 30% votes, the day before the election it came to light that they planned to work with extremist/nazis. They dropped below 5% over night.
Today the same situation just led to even more people voting for that party.
Only 40 years apart.