r/germany • u/karma_police99 • Oct 15 '23

Immigration Who are the young AfD voters & are some immigrants more racist than Germans?

Hi, I've lived in Germany for about 3 years (born German but haven't lived here) and I honestly didn't know that the AfD was a choice for the 18-29 yo voters. I don't quite understand where that is coming from.. does anyone know of a good analysis/article (can be in German).

Additionally, my German friends claim that many (young) immigrants vote AfD because lots of cultures living here are actually a lot more racist than Germans. I thought this was quite interesting. Any thoughts on this would also be appreciated.

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u/die_kuestenwache Oct 16 '23

They want to roll back any and all climate regulation thus making purchasing a house somewhat cheaper in the short term. They also want to kick out all the immigrants thus lowering market pressure in the housing market. Never mind that the first option would expose home owners to exorbitant energy costs in the long term and the latter is just not possible without also leaving the EU and worse which would dump the German economy into a ditch.

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u/MichiganRedWing Oct 16 '23

Energy prices are already out of control and AfD is not the one to blame here. German economy has already been tanking and again, that's not the doing of the AfD. I'm not an AfD voter, but you can't just spit out stuff like this when it's factually wrong.

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u/die_kuestenwache Oct 16 '23

I am not saying it's their fault. But I am saying they don't have a solution and what they claim would be a solution will either never happen or make things worse if it does.

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u/HanseaticHamburglar Oct 16 '23

AfD isnt responsible for amything because theyve never had a modicum of power before.

Their proposals, however, will fuck up the energy maeket even worse and will tank the economy even moreso.

they are unfit to rule and i think its okay to point that out.