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[tree_and_leaf]

Am very depressed by the results of the state elections in Mecklenburg, though I'm not really surprised after what I saw when I was over there last month. 7% for the Neo-Nazis is very bad news. They really seem to have smartened up their electoral tactics - and, by organising lots of community events (er, unless you're Turkish or the like, but there aren't that many immigrants in rural Meck-Pomm), have given people the impression that they're the only party that cares anything for the people.

http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2006/09/18/613128.html

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Waaaaah!

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I hadn't looked into a newspaper or online news magazine since last morning, so the election result did come as quite a shock for me right now.

Um, my icon obviously doesn't refer to you, but to the NPD.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

How can that happen? I didn't even realise they'd stopped banning them. I'm bewildered and horrified.

*weeps for humanity*

Re: Waaaaah!

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, they aren't at all pleasant people. The only hope is that this will give themselves enough rope to hang themselves, as they don't actually have any constructive ideas. But it's not good.

[tree_and_leaf]

Well, I think a lot of Germans would be pleased to ban the NPD (and IIRC it's been tried), but they've managed to keep within the letter of the law. And eastern Germany is in rather a mess, in most areas (not that that excuses voting NPD, but I can certainly see why people would begin to feel desperate. Quite apart from anything else, though, they're kidding themselves if they think that the NPD will solve the problem, though.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The Telegraph website has a rather disturbing picture of South American neo-nazis.

Re: Waaaaah!

[aervir.livejournal.com]

The only hope is that this will give themselves enough rope to hang themselves, as they don't actually have any constructive ideas.

That's exactly what I am hoping as well.

A few days ago, there was a short article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, covering the political "achievements" of those right-wing extremist parties that had been voted into municipal councils and regional Parliaments. They didn't seem to get much done, as many of the candidates who ran for office are apparently polemical trouble-makers with no previous political record. I fervently pray that this will be the case in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, too.

It's all so very depressing.

[dreamer-marie.livejournal.com]

It looks like they got their tactics from the French FN. I can't read German, so I haven't read the article, but from what you say they got most of their votes in places where there are not many immigrants. It's the same in France.

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, rather than be overrun by foreigners in Mecklenburg, one of the biggest problems is depopulation.

[mrs-wolf.livejournal.com]

I once lived with an older Irish man who was a Neo-Nazi and used to come into my room, drunk, wanting to sleep with me. (That living arrangement really sucked, in general, but I was desperate.)

Then I told him I'm half Jewish to get him to leave me alone and laugh at his reaction...

All in all it was pretty funny. The last time I saw him I took the liberties of personally mocking him for the size of his penis, though that probably was Not Very Nice.

(Don't be Neo Nazi or your penis will be tiny!)