Hate and unconstitutional thinking taking over

I felt like that on the run-up to the UK's Brexit vote, when thugs felt they could harry people on public transport or in the street. And now, we have large groups of anonymous men parading in ports or being threatening outside immigrant hostels. I'm so sorry for Germany, after all the years your country has spent (after WW2) trying to prevent the likes of the National Socialist Party ever gaining power again. It was almost bound to be Saxony-Anhalt, often portrayed as the ex-East German rustbelt with widespread poverty. People who feel forgotten or disadvantaged are more likely to fall for extravagant promises of change plus there may still be some who look back on the DDR with nostalgia. Despair makes people try anything, if the status quo has failed to improve their lives.

I have become selective over the way I keep up with current events. I don't watch news on TV, preferring instead to visit major news sites in my own or other countries, to read detail on things at my own pace. Many of those who protest about immigrants are not people who attend universities and so you may find more open-minded people at university. Of course, there will also be those whose opinions give us grief, but you should be able to avoid them and spend most of your time with people who share your views. 

I take heart in the number of people - whether in Germany, the UK or wherever - who share revulsion at any politics that does not view all humans as worthy of respect and compassion. When the world gets too much, I withdraw within the walls of my home and indulge myself with the things that bring me pleasure. There is much in the world that is good, whatever humans do.

I felt like that on the run-up to the UK's Brexit vote, when thugs felt they could harry people on public transport or in the street. And now, we have large groups of anonymous men parading in ports or being threatening outside immigrant hostels. I'm so sorry for Germany, after all the years your country has spent (after WW2) trying to prevent the likes of the National Socialist Party ever gaining power again. It was almost bound to be Saxony-Anhalt, often portrayed as the ex-East German rustbelt with widespread poverty. People who feel forgotten or disadvantaged are more likely to fall for extravagant promises of change plus there may still be some who look back on the DDR with nostalgia. Despair makes people try anything, if the status quo has failed to improve their lives.

I have become selective over the way I keep up with current events. I don't watch news on TV, preferring instead to visit major news sites in my own or other countries, to read detail on things at my own pace. Many of those who protest about immigrants are not people who attend universities and so you may find more open-minded people at university. Of course, there will also be those whose opinions give us grief, but you should be able to avoid them and spend most of your time with people who share your views. 

I take heart in the number of people - whether in Germany, the UK or wherever - who share revulsion at any politics that does not view all humans as worthy of respect and compassion. When the world gets too much, I withdraw within the walls of my home and indulge myself with the things that bring me pleasure. There is much in the world that is good, whatever humans do.

Alexa said:

People who feel forgotten or disadvantaged are more likely to fall for extravagant promises of change plus there may still be some who look back on the DDR with nostalgia.

That‘s certainly a big part of the reasons for the AfD‘s success. Funny though… a statistic from our national financial institute shows, that the AfD is the number one party for benefitting extremely wealthy people. People really don’t like researching.

Luckily I‘ll study in Lower Saxony (near to my current home) and in a city known for being a pretty progressive bubble. Lower Saxony is not right-wing (we‘ve got a vote coming up this weekend and it doesn‘t look like it‘s gonna be as bad).

Thanks for the advice on consuming media through official websites, I‘ll try sticking to that for a while and see how it‘s working out for me.

Alexa said:

And now, we have large groups of anonymous men parading in ports

Teens acting aimlessly, mainly, with nothing to do. More organised activities are needed country-wide to occupy those who can't think what to do with time - not a criticism but a fact. Many can't afford expensive hobbies, sports or clubs. Perhaps 'how to spend leisure hours' needs to be taught from primary school level. It would be very cost effective for the Government to put money in such projects.