https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/13/afd-party-ban-germany-far-right-extremists/The co-leader of Olaf Scholz’s ruling Social Democrats also said a ban should be considered if the AfD is categorised as a group of “proven Right-wing extremists”
Yes! Ethics alone, irrespective of public opinion, are what should determine whether or not something should be allowed.
However Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, warned that “banning parties has never actually solved political problems”.
This is true so long as the members and voters for those parties remain alive, as they will just start another party. The guaranteed effective way to solve political problems is to physically exterminate them.
Meanwhile, the German Institute for Human Rights, a non-governmental organisation, declared last week that “the AfD have reached a degree of dangerousness that they can be banned according to the constitution”.
They warned in an analysis that the party is actively and methodically trying “to implement its racist and Right-wing extremist goals” and “shifting the limits of what can be said so that people can get used to their ethno-nationalist positions”.
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When the Nazis came to power, they banned all other parties.
Follow Hitler's shining example before it's too late!
Volker Boehme-Nessler, a political scientist, said he does not believe the party meets the high legal hurdles for a ban.
He warned that a failed attempt would only give the AfD an additional boost in the election campaign, he told eastern German broadcaster MDR.
Just stop having elections altogether! Either you sincerely believe popularity matters, in which case you would not ban the AfD, or you sincerely believe popularity does not matter, in which case why have elections at all?
“You can’t simply ban a party that gets 20-30 per cent approval” in various states, he added.
Just physically exterminate that 20-30%! (This is why many years ago I was already saying Germany should build a military force exclusively populated by refugees. This force can then be deployed for this task.)
Germans are evenly split on whether the party should be banned, with 47 per cent of the country in favour of a ban and 47 per cent against.
So what!? If we are going to turn against democracy, then in our rhetoric we should stop caring about how popular something is, and only ever discuss whether or not it is the ethical thing to do!
A ban is more popular in the west and among liberal Greens.
Of course! The Greens are nearest to True Leftism (and indeed to Hitlerism). The AfD itself is aware of who most threatens them:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/green-wave/msg1510/#msg1510Alexander Gauland, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany, declared the Greens "our main enemy."
"The Greens will destroy this country, and our job must and will be to fight the Greens," said Gauland, whose party has claimed that climate change isn't a man-made phenomenon and that efforts to tackle it will harm Germany's economy.
In addition to pushing for action on climate change, the Greens have generally positioned themselves as a counterweight to anti-immigration parties such as Alternative for Germany, which have decried the influx of migrants from the Middle East.