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  1. 0:01Have you seen that viral clip of the
  2. 0:02guy who complains on ZDF about being a
  3. 0:04young AfD member and not getting any
  4. 0:05dates anymore because he's right-wing?
  5. 0:09As soon as they notice you're somehow
  6. 0:11conservative, right-wing, or even just
  7. 0:12a Christian, it's looked down upon, and
  8. 0:14as a man, as a right-wing man, you're
  9. 0:16immediately out. That's typical Germany
  10. 0:19again; there's a firewall everywhere,
  11. 0:21even on Tinder. You can't even swipe
  12. 0:23right anymore. The thing is, this isn't
  13. 0:26just a German phenomenon. Worldwide,
  14. 0:28men have become more right-wing and
  15. 0:30women more left-wing over the last 20
  16. 0:32years. Not just in Germany, but also in
  17. 0:35the USA, England, and even South Korea,
  18. 0:37for example. We've known for a while
  19. 0:40that this is the case in Germany, given
  20. 0:41the AfD's election results. But isn't
  21. 0:44it strange that this is happening
  22. 0:46globally? In a few days, there's a
  23. 0:50state election in Saxony-Anhalt, and
  24. 0:52the AfD's manifesto there states the
  25. 0:53following: Prices for electricity, fuel
  26. 0:55, and groceries have continued to rise.
  27. 0:58Likewise, taxes and levies. We can
  28. 1:00afford less and less with our wages.
  29. 1:03Our pensions are no longer enough to
  30. 1:05live on, and of course, only you can
  31. 1:08help, because the old parties are to
  32. 1:10blame. Interestingly, they are also to
  33. 1:13blame in England, according to the
  34. 1:15right-wing populist party Reform UK.
  35. 1:27And in the USA, according to Trump,
  36. 1:30Biden was to blame. And in the
  37. 1:45Netherlands, right-wing populist Geert
  38. 1:47Wilders also complains about the
  39. 1:49current Dutch government, saying
  40. 1:51everything is getting expensive quickly
  41. 1:53. Sorry, I don't speak Dutch. It is, of
  42. 1:57course, a fact that everything has
  43. 1:59become more expensive worldwide because
  44. 2:01of COVID, the Ukraine war, and recently
  45. 2:03a bit because of the Iran conflict. But
  46. 2:05as you can see from these statements,
  47. 2:07everyone around the world has felt all
  48. 2:09of that. Not just us here in Germany.
  49. 2:13Here, for example, are the current
  50. 2:14grocery prices in the USA. This is
  51. 2:16something that has fascinated me for a
  52. 2:18long time. If you look at political
  53. 2:21debates in other countries, they are
  54. 2:23often discussing identical issues. But
  55. 2:27while Merkel or the "Ampel" coalition
  56. 2:29supposedly ruined Germany here, in
  57. 2:31other countries it was whatever party
  58. 2:34was in power at the time. And yet, our
  59. 2:39debates often revolve around whether
  60. 2:40the AfD is becoming more successful
  61. 2:42because they were invited to talk shows
  62. 2:44too often, whether it has to do with
  63. 2:46East Germany, or because they make
  64. 2:47better TikToks than Friedrich Merz.
  65. 2:52Hello, this is Friedrich Merz.
  66. 2:54Hello.
  67. 2:55Hello. Greetings. Hello.
  68. 2:57Hello, guys. So, how's the mood?
  69. 3:00Pretty good, right? Great atmosphere.
  70. 3:02Yes,
  71. 3:02very good. And, of course, these are
  72. 3:05all valid points, especially the bad
  73. 3:07TikToks. And of course, there isn't
  74. 3:09just one reason. The topic is super
  75. 3:11complex. People choose parties for very
  76. 3:13individual reasons. But could it be,
  77. 3:16nonetheless, that the general growth of
  78. 3:18the AfD follows a global trend that has
  79. 3:21less to do with Germany alone? And if
  80. 3:24that's the case, what does it mean for
  81. 3:27our society and what might we learn
  82. 3:29from it? That's what I want to take a
  83. 3:31look at in this video. Chapter 1: A
  84. 3:33shift to the right across the globe.
  85. 3:36These here are election results of
  86. 3:38right-wing populist parties in Europe
  87. 3:40over the last 20 years. RN in France,
  88. 3:44Lega and FDI in Italy, the FPÖ and
  89. 3:46BZÖ in Austria, the PVV in the
  90. 3:48Netherlands, UKIP and Reform in England
  91. 3:50, Chega in Portugal, the Sweden
  92. 3:52Democrats in Sweden, Fidesz in Hungary,
  93. 3:55PiS in Poland, and many others. If you
  94. 3:59look at it all together, there is a
  95. 4:01clear trend. Of course, with nuances.
  96. 4:04In Greece, for example, there are three
  97. 4:06right-wing populist parties in
  98. 4:08parliament, and together they have
  99. 4:10about 15%. In Hungary, the
  100. 4:12then-governing party Fidesz became
  101. 4:14increasingly right-wing populist over
  102. 4:16time and effectively took the job away
  103. 4:19from the Jobbik party, which had
  104. 4:21previously defined right-wing populism
  105. 4:23there. Once again, it's the foreigners
  106. 4:25'fault that the job was taken away. In
  107. 4:28Ireland, there is no major right-wing
  108. 4:29populist party in parliament. However,
  109. 4:32in the last presidential election,
  110. 4:34almost 13%spoiled their ballots in
  111. 4:36protest. Often because there was no
  112. 4:39right-wing candidate to choose from.
  113. 4:41But even if there are such local
  114. 4:43differences, fundamentally there is a
  115. 4:44trend, and it exists not only in Europe
  116. 4:46. In the USA, which realistically only
  117. 4:49has two parties, the trend is that the
  118. 4:51Republicans became more right-wing
  119. 4:52populist, first with the Tea Party
  120. 4:54movement and then with MAGA and Trump.
  121. 4:57During this time, there has also been
  122. 4:58an increasing shift toward right-wing
  123. 5:00populists in South America in recent
  124. 5:02years. Bolsonaro in Brazil, Bukele in
  125. 5:04El Salvador, Milei in Argentina, but
  126. 5:06also in Chile, Colombia, and Peru. In
  127. 5:09Japan, a populist party recently grew
  128. 5:11from one to 14 seats in 3 years with 12
  129. 5:14%of the vote. So there is obviously a
  130. 5:17global trend toward right-wing populism
  131. 5:18, even if there are exceptions and
  132. 5:20local differences. And now the question
  133. 5:23is, why? But before we get to that,
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  170. 7:00we are seeing a global trend toward
  171. 7:02right-wing populism? Chapter 2: 20
  172. 7:04years of crisis. Worldwide, people have
  173. 7:08become angrier, sadder, more anxious,
  174. 7:10and more stressed over the last 20
  175. 7:12years. And if you look at this time
  176. 7:14period, the same period during which
  177. 7:16right-wing populism has grown around
  178. 7:18the world, the century started with the
  179. 7:20dot-com bubble, then came September
  180. 7:2111th. September, then the 2008
  181. 7:23financial crisis, then the Euro crisis,
  182. 7:25Corona and the lockdowns, then the war
  183. 7:27in Ukraine, war in Gaza, and most
  184. 7:29recently the Iran war. All crises that
  185. 7:31just happen without us having any form
  186. 7:34of control over them. Crises that often
  187. 7:37had massive economic consequences,
  188. 7:39often worldwide. The thing is, after
  189. 7:42financial crises and higher inflation,
  190. 7:44right-wing parties usually gain ground,
  191. 7:47because populism works when inequality
  192. 7:49grows and people are afraid of losing
  193. 7:51their status. They feel powerless, and
  194. 7:54that’s where right-wing parties step
  195. 7:56in.
  196. 7:57The glorification of powerlessness is a
  197. 8:00central tool of this movement. This
  198. 8:02means the individual is persuaded. You
  199. 8:06can’t do anything anyway except
  200. 8:08support us, and that ultimately only a
  201. 8:10strong party, a strong leader, a strong
  202. 8:13movement can provide salvation.
  203. 8:15Economic inequality is bad for
  204. 8:18democracy. We see this here, for
  205. 8:20example, especially in East Germany,
  206. 8:22but also in the USA, for example. There
  207. 8:25it’s the Midwest versus the wealthy
  208. 8:27coastal regions, and in other EU
  209. 8:29countries, you see that too. map shows
  210. 8:32GDP per capita per German states and
  211. 8:34this map shows where people mostly
  212. 8:36voted for the rightwing populist party
  213. 8:39AFD. When we look at leaders like
  214. 8:41Marine Le Pen and Viktor Orbán, we see
  215. 8:44that they often struggle to gain
  216. 8:45traction in thriving, rich urban
  217. 8:47centers, but they dominate the vote in
  218. 8:50rural and declining areas.
  219. 8:52The corona crisis was an additional
  220. 8:54factor that reduced trust in science
  221. 8:56and government for some. In part
  222. 8:59because of the sheer amount of
  223. 9:00misinformation, but also because it was
  224. 9:02just a really awful time and the whole
  225. 9:04situation never really felt under
  226. 9:06control. Many felt powerless again, and
  227. 9:09right-wing parties stepped in. Crisis
  228. 9:12can also be a catalyst, and naturally,
  229. 9:15the so-called refugee crisis is a
  230. 9:17factor that cannot be ignored. This, of
  231. 9:20course, drove people who are critical
  232. 9:22of migration into the arms of
  233. 9:24right-wing populist parties. But just
  234. 9:27as you cannot ignore this factor, it
  235. 9:29would be just as wrong to see it as the
  236. 9:30only factor. Voters Voters who have
  237. 9:42concerns about immigration are economic
  238. 9:45people.
  239. 9:56Economic uncertainty is being exploited
  240. 9:58to play people against one another. The
  241. 10:02first obvious conclusion is that AfD
  242. 10:04voters have economic hardships and
  243. 10:07fears of social decline. This is
  244. 10:11projected onto the idea that, oh God,
  245. 10:13the people coming from the outside want
  246. 10:15to take something away from me. I am
  247. 10:18doing so poorly because they are coming
  248. 10:20. And the AfD has mastered that game
  249. 10:23perfectly. That does not mean that it
  250. 10:25cannot be a legitimate opinion to say
  251. 10:27that migration should be better managed
  252. 10:29. But when talking about the topic of
  253. 10:32migration, it is often more about fears
  254. 10:34and feelings than about facts.
  255. 10:36Right-wing parties continue to grow,
  256. 10:37even though the number of asylum
  257. 10:39applications has been steadily
  258. 10:40declining in recent years. In an MDR
  259. 10:42interview, the lead AfD candidate from
  260. 10:44Saxony-Anhalt was confronted with the
  261. 10:46fact that there are half as many crimes
  262. 10:48today as there were in the 90s. And
  263. 10:50this was his response. I want people to
  264. 10:53feel safe as well, regardless of any
  265. 10:55theoretical statistics from the 90s.
  266. 10:57It is more about the feeling than the
  267. 10:59statistics. And I can even understand
  268. 11:02that a little bit, because, of course,
  269. 11:04in the end it doesn't matter if I
  270. 11:05factually know that an airplane is the
  271. 11:07safest mode of transport if I have a
  272. 11:09fear of flying anyway. You usually
  273. 11:12cannot win against feelings with facts.
  274. 11:15And it is unfortunately the case that
  275. 11:17the world feels increasingly unstable.
  276. 11:19It is initially irrelevant what it is
  277. 11:21that you are afraid of. I also look to
  278. 11:23the future with skepticism. Everything
  279. 11:24is getting more expensive, everything
  280. 11:25is getting more complex, everyone is
  281. 11:26yelling at each other more. And I also
  282. 11:29believe that we often fail socially and
  283. 11:31politically to offer good solutions
  284. 11:32here. So I do not want to deny that
  285. 11:36this plays a role, but it cannot be the
  286. 11:38only reason, because crises existed in
  287. 11:40the past as well. My thesis is
  288. 11:42therefore that it is not the crises
  289. 11:44themselves that have changed, but the
  290. 11:46discourse surrounding them and how
  291. 11:48these crises are being exploited. If
  292. 11:51you look at all these right-wing
  293. 11:53populist parties, you notice that they
  294. 11:55don't just share growth, but often a
  295. 11:58few other things as well, for example,
  296. 12:00this thing. Elon Musk, chapter 3: Rich
  297. 12:09and right-wing. I probably don't need
  298. 12:11to tell you that Elon Musk is a big
  299. 12:13Donald Trump fan and is spending
  300. 12:15hundreds of millions for a Republican
  301. 12:17victory. Or that Elon Musk actively
  302. 12:19promotes the AfD, probably not either.
  303. 12:23AfD. Really best Germany. But did you
  304. 12:34know that Elon Musk also supports the
  305. 12:36right-wing in England and in Spain,
  306. 12:38that he was first close with Meloni in
  307. 12:40Italy before joining in with the other
  308. 12:42right-wing party there, and not just
  309. 12:45the AfD; that he meets with Viktor
  310. 12:47Orbán from Hungary, meddles with the
  311. 12:49conservatives in Canada, or that he is
  312. 12:52such a big supporter of Milei from
  313. 12:55Argentina that he even mimics his
  314. 12:57chainsaw move? Bureaucracy.
  315. 13:07The world’s first trillionaire loves
  316. 13:10to promote right-wing populist parties.
  317. 13:13Just like his colleague Peter Thiel and
  318. 13:15many, many other very rich men. NIUS,
  319. 13:18basically the unofficial press office
  320. 13:20of the AfD, is financed by one of the
  321. 13:22richest people in Germany, and not
  322. 13:24because it’s a good business that
  323. 13:26brings him a lot of money. On the
  324. 13:28contrary, NIUS probably couldn't stay
  325. 13:30afloat without him. A major donor to
  326. 13:33the AfD is a billionaire. Bolsonaro in
  327. 13:35Brazil was supported by one of the
  328. 13:37richest people there. In France, the
  329. 13:39billionaire Stérin finances the
  330. 13:40right-wing there. And in England, the
  331. 13:43right-wing populist Nigel Farage
  332. 13:45recently had to step down because he "
  333. 13:47forgot" to mention that he had just
  334. 13:49been gifted 5 million pounds by the
  335. 13:51sixth-richest person in Great Britain.
  336. 13:54He was re-elected anyway, but at least
  337. 13:57that convinced 27%of the voters to vote
  338. 13:59for a literal trash can instead of him.
  339. 14:03We are heading into 2026. In the same
  340. 14:06period that we see a rise in right-wing
  341. 14:09populism, we also see that the rich
  342. 14:11have been getting richer and richer.
  343. 14:14With Elon Musk, we even had the first
  344. 14:16trillionaire this year. I could cite
  345. 14:19all sorts of statistics here, for
  346. 14:21example, that 60,000 people possess
  347. 14:23three times as much wealth as the
  348. 14:25entire bottom half of humanity, or that
  349. 14:27billionaires alone have accumulated
  350. 14:29more wealth since 2020. But I don’t
  351. 14:32think that’s necessary, because it is
  352. 14:34clear to us all that there is great
  353. 14:36inequality, and while everything is
  354. 14:37becoming more expensive, the richest
  355. 14:39are getting richer and we are not. I
  356. 14:41would claim that most of you do not
  357. 14:43have 81%more money than you did in 2020
  358. 14:46. But did you know that, according to
  359. 14:50Oxfam, billionaires are 4,000 times
  360. 14:52more likely to hold political office?
  361. 14:55I'll gladly say it again. Economic
  362. 14:57inequality is one reason why
  363. 15:00democracies fail. That wealth confers
  364. 15:02power, whether through political
  365. 15:04donations, lobbying, or contacts and so
  366. 15:06on, we all know that. But I think it
  367. 15:08has rarely been this blatantly obvious.
  368. 15:12as it is with Elon Musk, whether
  369. 15:14through his role in the US government,
  370. 15:16his manipulation of Twitter, the
  371. 15:18massive donations he makes, or by
  372. 15:20supporting right-wing populist parties
  373. 15:22in at least 18 countries. Why does he
  374. 15:25do it? Why do so many wealthy people do
  375. 15:27it? Maybe because having political
  376. 15:29alliances makes them even richer. Maybe
  377. 15:32it's because more left-leaning parties
  378. 15:34advocate for higher taxes on the
  379. 15:36wealthy, and billionaires often dislike
  380. 15:39that, like the Google co-founder who
  381. 15:41was able to spend over 100 million on
  382. 15:43ads to make sure California wouldn't
  383. 15:45introduce a wealth tax. Perhaps wealthy
  384. 15:49people like Elon Musk are also
  385. 15:50genuinely convinced that the world is
  386. 15:52better if every country becomes more
  387. 15:54nationalistic. In fact, there is a
  388. 15:57group of people around Peter Thiel and
  389. 15:59Elon Musk who are followers of Curtis
  390. 16:01Yarvin, an influential Silicon Valley
  391. 16:03thought leader who argues that
  392. 16:05democracy must be abolished. Maybe it's
  393. 16:09a mix of all of the above, but it’s a
  394. 16:12funny coincidence that Elon Musk acts
  395. 16:14out a version of this cartoon every
  396. 16:16week. Watch out, the foreigner wants
  397. 16:20your cookie. To sum it up briefly. Yes,
  398. 16:23there have been crises in the last 20
  399. 16:25years. While these crises had economic
  400. 16:27impacts on most people, wealthy
  401. 16:29individuals grew ever richer during the
  402. 16:31same time and increased their influence
  403. 16:33. And some of them apparently use this
  404. 16:36growing influence and wealth to divide
  405. 16:38society by poisoning the discourse
  406. 16:40surrounding these crises. Perhaps out
  407. 16:43of conviction, perhaps because it helps
  408. 16:45them protect or increase their wealth.
  409. 16:47Perhaps both, but Elon Musk isn't the
  410. 16:50only thing these parties have in common
  411. 16:52. There is also Chapter 4: Russia. Many
  412. 16:57right-wing populist parties in Europe
  413. 16:59don't just share Elon Musk as a common
  414. 17:01friend, but also Vladimir Putin. Marine
  415. 17:04Le Pen from France, a friend of Putin.
  416. 17:06The FPÖ in Austria, friends of Putin.
  417. 17:09Lega in Italy, friends of Putin. Viktor
  418. 17:11Orbán from Hungary, a friend of Putin.
  419. 17:14Wilders in the Netherlands, Putin likes
  420. 17:16him. The AfD, Putin is a fan. We know
  421. 17:20that Russia supports and promotes
  422. 17:21various right-wing populist parties, be
  423. 17:23it in 2016 through influence on Donald
  424. 17:25Trump's election or the manipulation of
  425. 17:27the election in Romania two years ago.
  426. 17:30Here, too, the candidate was an
  427. 17:31ultra-right-winger, or through the
  428. 17:33influence on Brexit in favor of the
  429. 17:35right-wing populist party UKIP, or
  430. 17:37through direct payments to an AfD
  431. 17:38member of parliament. We know that
  432. 17:41Russia specifically uses social media
  433. 17:43to divide society and stir people up
  434. 17:44against each other. For example, in the
  435. 17:47USA in the context of the Black Lives
  436. 17:49Matter movement and through a large
  437. 17:51disinformation strategy. At this very
  438. 17:53moment, a disinformation campaign is
  439. 17:55running with the goal of influencing
  440. 17:58state elections in favor of the AfD and
  441. 18:00the BSW. And the origin is likely
  442. 18:03Russia. Okay, so am I trying to tell
  443. 18:05you that Russia and Elon Musk are to
  444. 18:07blame for the growing right-wing
  445. 18:08populism around the world? Absolutely
  446. 18:11not. Russia also supports some
  447. 18:13left-wing populists. Much of this video
  448. 18:15applies to populism in general. Russia
  449. 18:19simply benefits from parties that
  450. 18:21oppose Ukraine. But even apart from the
  451. 18:24war in Ukraine, Russia strategically
  452. 18:26benefits from a fractured society in
  453. 18:28Europe and the USA. When the EU or NATO
  454. 18:30do not stick together, but are instead
  455. 18:32divided by infighting. When the
  456. 18:34political landscape does not pull
  457. 18:37together on important issues, then
  458. 18:39Russia wins. That is why I do believe
  459. 18:42that Russia certainly contributes to
  460. 18:44strengthening right-wing populists
  461. 18:46worldwide, just as Elon Musk does for
  462. 18:48his own interests. To what extent is
  463. 18:50hard to say, but for my point, that is
  464. 18:52completely irrelevant. The reason I
  465. 18:55mention Elon Musk and Russia here is
  466. 18:58because they show us most clearly what
  467. 19:00I believe is the real problem, by
  468. 19:02exploiting it most obviously. Social
  469. 19:07media. Chapter 5. The internet. is
  470. 19:10breaking us. Elon Musk on Twitter or
  471. 19:13disinformation campaigns from Russia.
  472. 19:15The internet has made all of that
  473. 19:17possible. Corona divided society
  474. 19:20because it was a highly complex
  475. 19:21situation, but also because we were all
  476. 19:23suddenly just glued to our phones at
  477. 19:25home and arguing with each other. I
  478. 19:28would even argue that we have all
  479. 19:29become angrier, sadder, more anxious,
  480. 19:31and more stressed worldwide. Not
  481. 19:33because of the crises, because as I
  482. 19:35said, those have always existed, but
  483. 19:36because of the time we have been
  484. 19:38spending on social media ever since.
  485. 19:41Even without unpacking specific studies
  486. 19:43here, I think it is clear to everyone
  487. 19:45that social media has made a massive
  488. 19:47contribution worldwide to dividing and
  489. 19:49radicalizing society. Whether it is
  490. 19:52recommendation algorithms that
  491. 19:53supposedly create so-called rabbit hole
  492. 19:56effects, meaning people are shown
  493. 19:57increasingly radical content. However,
  494. 19:59it is also debated whether that
  495. 20:01actually exists. It could also be the
  496. 20:02opposite, that people are confronted
  497. 20:04with more extreme opposing opinions
  498. 20:06that make them angry. Whether it's the
  499. 20:09attention economy, meaning clickbait
  500. 20:11and wildly emotional statements are
  501. 20:13rewarded by us with clicks, or that we
  502. 20:15only read headlines that increasingly
  503. 20:17show how terrible everything is, which
  504. 20:19distorts our perception, or that
  505. 20:21because everyone suddenly has a voice,
  506. 20:23the absolute extremes of the opinion
  507. 20:26spectrum—the Overton window, meaning
  508. 20:29what is considered socially acceptable
  509. 20:31—have expanded so drastically that we
  510. 20:33are confronted with populist statements
  511. 20:36every single day. Regardless of what
  512. 20:38all the ultimate reasons are, according
  513. 20:41to one study, the mere existence of
  514. 20:43mobile internet access promotes
  515. 20:44right-wing populism because it fosters
  516. 20:47tribalism and causes you to start
  517. 20:48disliking strangers. I think anyone who
  518. 20:51has ever looked at the internet can
  519. 20:52understand that. You really start to
  520. 20:54hate other people if you ever look at
  521. 20:57the comments. Well, except for you guys
  522. 20:59, of course. You are cool, and this
  523. 21:01isn't even the internet's fault; rather
  524. 21:02, we as humans are just like this. We
  525. 21:05love belonging to a tribe and showing
  526. 21:07everyone in our tribe that we think the
  527. 21:09others are really stupid. I am doing
  528. 21:12the same thing right now with this
  529. 21:13video. The internet also makes it so
  530. 21:15much easier, because in real life you
  531. 21:17would have interrupted my monologue
  532. 21:19here at least ten times. The same
  533. 21:21mechanisms that make social media
  534. 21:22successful are dividing society. And
  535. 21:25that doesn't even take into account
  536. 21:27that the internet has made it so
  537. 21:28incredibly easy to spread
  538. 21:30disinformation everywhere. My argument
  539. 21:33is therefore not that Russia or Elon
  540. 21:35Musk are to blame, but that they are
  541. 21:37the most obvious example of the actual
  542. 21:39global problem. The internet has
  543. 21:42screwed up our society. And because men
  544. 21:45and women often consume different
  545. 21:47content on the internet, this would,
  546. 21:49for example, also explain why the same
  547. 21:50crises have different outcomes and
  548. 21:52right-wing dudes can't get dates
  549. 21:54anymore. Chapter 6. Okay, but what do
  550. 21:57we do with this info now? We know that
  551. 21:59similar things are happening globally.
  552. 22:01This suggests that there are perhaps
  553. 22:03similar causes globally and that we
  554. 22:05might need to do something about it
  555. 22:06globally as well. We have known for
  556. 22:09years how social media negatively
  557. 22:11affects society. We have known for
  558. 22:13years that Russia influences our
  559. 22:15politics through social media. The
  560. 22:17points I am addressing here have been
  561. 22:19discussed for at least 10 years, at the
  562. 22:22latest since the first election of
  563. 22:24Donald Trump, but partly even longer—
  564. 22:26already in 2005 there was a study on
  565. 22:28political blogs. Does anyone even
  566. 22:31remember blogs? And it came to the
  567. 22:34conclusion that even back then
  568. 22:35polarization could be seen among
  569. 22:36bloggers, and moderate centrist blogs
  570. 22:38had hardly any success. But even though
  571. 22:41we know this, somehow nobody changes
  572. 22:43anything. This video won't change
  573. 22:46anything for anyone either. The problem
  574. 22:49I'm creating in this video is that I'm
  575. 22:51trying to explain why people have what
  576. 22:53I consider to be wrong opinions, and in
  577. 22:55doing so, I'm somehow denying that they
  578. 22:58are genuinely angry. Someone just made
  579. 23:01them angry, so angry that they are
  580. 23:02prepared to vote for a party that is in
  581. 23:04parts confirmed to be right-wing
  582. 23:06extremist. Social media is to blame,
  583. 23:09Russia, the fake news, and not the
  584. 23:11reality, the bad policy that is making
  585. 23:13them angry. This video will convince no
  586. 23:16one. This video changes nothing about
  587. 23:18the feeling. A feeling that exists in
  588. 23:21reality because we are all exhausted.
  589. 23:23And it would be naive to believe that
  590. 23:25everyone who votes for the AfD was
  591. 23:27simply misguided. Of course not. Many
  592. 23:29are convinced by the right-wing
  593. 23:31extremist positions, but the majority
  594. 23:33of people who voted for the AfD for the
  595. 23:35first time in the last federal election
  596. 23:37actually do so not out of conviction,
  597. 23:39but out of disappointment. And there
  598. 23:42are many approaches on how one could
  599. 23:43win these people back. In my video on
  600. 24:05the last federal election, I already
  601. 24:06said it: Germany isn't doing all that
  602. 24:07badly yet. The money is just not
  603. 24:10distributed very evenly and growth
  604. 24:12could be a bit better, but we are still
  605. 24:14the third-largest economy in the world.
  606. 24:17Politics just has to prove that a
  607. 24:19positive future lies ahead of us, that
  608. 24:21one can trust the government. That is
  609. 24:24the job of the politicians. But we as a
  610. 24:27society can also do something. "Der
  611. 24:29Spiegel" interviewed five experts on
  612. 24:31this a few weeks ago. What helps
  613. 24:33against right-wing extremists? Spoiler
  614. 24:35alert: it's not a "Spiegel" cover. One
  615. 24:38of the experts said that we need a
  616. 24:40movement for change where everyone
  617. 24:42sticks together through an honest
  618. 24:43description of the problems, a vision
  619. 24:45that makes you want to get started,
  620. 24:47through the feeling that everyone can
  621. 24:49contribute through community. Another
  622. 24:52expert in the article also reaches a
  623. 24:54similar conclusion by citing an example
  624. 24:56. In France, it was found that support
  625. 25:00for right-wing populists increases when
  626. 25:03the local bar closes and decreases when
  627. 25:06a new bar opens. The next expert said
  628. 25:09there is a need for more low-threshold
  629. 25:11opportunities for participation in real
  630. 25:13life. Clubs, neighborhood projects,
  631. 25:16citizens' forums, and the next expert
  632. 25:18says again that more community is
  633. 25:20needed. And the last expert recommends:
  634. 25:22clubs. Isn't it strange that
  635. 25:25polarization is increasing worldwide at
  636. 25:27the same time? From the moment we all
  637. 25:31increasingly hole up in our phones
  638. 25:33worldwide, doomscrolling and hurling
  639. 25:35insults at anonymous people, while
  640. 25:38polarization apparently decreases when
  641. 25:40we all meet in real life, encounter
  642. 25:42real people, and work together on the
  643. 25:45problems of our time. Perhaps that is
  644. 25:48one reason why the AfD wants to abolish
  645. 25:50NGOs. In closing, I would like to leave
  646. 25:52you with one thing before the state
  647. 25:54election. It may be that over 40%of
  648. 25:56people end up voting for the AfD, and
  649. 25:58for the first time in the history of
  650. 26:00the Federal Republic, we might have a
  651. 26:02far-right party in government there.
  652. 26:06But 60%do not want them. It may be that
  653. 26:10nationwide the AfD is currently at 28%
  654. 26:12in the polls, but that also means 72%do
  655. 26:14not want a party that is in parts
  656. 26:16far-right. We must also not make the
  657. 26:19AfD and this global trend larger than
  658. 26:22it is. What we should make larger is
  659. 26:25what the right-wing populists do not
  660. 26:27offer, but what we all—even AfD
  661. 26:28voters—actually want. More community
  662. 26:32and a better future.

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