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Most of Germanys richest families have inherited their wealth from Nazi times. Many still think that way and somewhat control the media. I certainly can think of a solution.
That's not the problem here. You are talking about a very small group of people. The voters of the right populists are unfortunately a lot more. It's a combination of many reasons, but i think the biggest reason is things went to shit for the last 20 years, need to be fixed now, cost a lot of money, communication from the government is bad. Resulting in the high taxes for the average are kept, combined with new mandatory costs forecasted by the right wingers (doesn't matter if true or not) making them feel like they would loose their standard of living, while all the stuff that would need public investments, like schools, housing, day care, health care,..., is still at the brink of collapse. And here come the rights with their simple solutions for complex problems, while the established parties have no better ideas than shifting themselves more to the right. Tldr: something must change fundamentaly really quick or Germany or better all the western countries are fucked very soon
The funny/sad thing is. Most of the people who vote for the AfD are the ones who would be hit hardest by their decisions. They don't want to fix the stated problems. They want to make the rich richer and poor poorer.
Yeah, I really hate, we are adopting all the bs from the US - vote against your own interests, just to own the libs ๐ although many might don't get that it's against their own favor...