Die ganze Welt wird rechts! Warum? — Transcript
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- 0:01Have you seen that viral clip of the
- 0:02guy who complains on ZDF about being a
- 0:04young AfD member and not getting any
- 0:05dates anymore because he's right-wing?
- 0:09As soon as they notice you're somehow
- 0:11conservative, right-wing, or even just
- 0:12a Christian, it's looked down upon, and
- 0:14as a man, as a right-wing man, you're
- 0:16immediately out. That's typical Germany
- 0:19again; there's a firewall everywhere,
- 0:21even on Tinder. You can't even swipe
- 0:23right anymore. The thing is, this isn't
- 0:26just a German phenomenon. Worldwide,
- 0:28men have become more right-wing and
- 0:30women more left-wing over the last 20
- 0:32years. Not just in Germany, but also in
- 0:35the USA, England, and even South Korea,
- 0:37for example. We've known for a while
- 0:40that this is the case in Germany, given
- 0:41the AfD's election results. But isn't
- 0:44it strange that this is happening
- 0:46globally? In a few days, there's a
- 0:50state election in Saxony-Anhalt, and
- 0:52the AfD's manifesto there states the
- 0:53following: Prices for electricity, fuel
- 0:55, and groceries have continued to rise.
- 0:58Likewise, taxes and levies. We can
- 1:00afford less and less with our wages.
- 1:03Our pensions are no longer enough to
- 1:05live on, and of course, only you can
- 1:08help, because the old parties are to
- 1:10blame. Interestingly, they are also to
- 1:13blame in England, according to the
- 1:15right-wing populist party Reform UK.
- 1:27And in the USA, according to Trump,
- 1:30Biden was to blame. And in the
- 1:45Netherlands, right-wing populist Geert
- 1:47Wilders also complains about the
- 1:49current Dutch government, saying
- 1:51everything is getting expensive quickly
- 1:53. Sorry, I don't speak Dutch. It is, of
- 1:57course, a fact that everything has
- 1:59become more expensive worldwide because
- 2:01of COVID, the Ukraine war, and recently
- 2:03a bit because of the Iran conflict. But
- 2:05as you can see from these statements,
- 2:07everyone around the world has felt all
- 2:09of that. Not just us here in Germany.
- 2:13Here, for example, are the current
- 2:14grocery prices in the USA. This is
- 2:16something that has fascinated me for a
- 2:18long time. If you look at political
- 2:21debates in other countries, they are
- 2:23often discussing identical issues. But
- 2:27while Merkel or the "Ampel" coalition
- 2:29supposedly ruined Germany here, in
- 2:31other countries it was whatever party
- 2:34was in power at the time. And yet, our
- 2:39debates often revolve around whether
- 2:40the AfD is becoming more successful
- 2:42because they were invited to talk shows
- 2:44too often, whether it has to do with
- 2:46East Germany, or because they make
- 2:47better TikToks than Friedrich Merz.
- 2:52Hello, this is Friedrich Merz.
- 2:54Hello.
- 2:55Hello. Greetings. Hello.
- 2:57Hello, guys. So, how's the mood?
- 3:00Pretty good, right? Great atmosphere.
- 3:02Yes,
- 3:02very good. And, of course, these are
- 3:05all valid points, especially the bad
- 3:07TikToks. And of course, there isn't
- 3:09just one reason. The topic is super
- 3:11complex. People choose parties for very
- 3:13individual reasons. But could it be,
- 3:16nonetheless, that the general growth of
- 3:18the AfD follows a global trend that has
- 3:21less to do with Germany alone? And if
- 3:24that's the case, what does it mean for
- 3:27our society and what might we learn
- 3:29from it? That's what I want to take a
- 3:31look at in this video. Chapter 1: A
- 3:33shift to the right across the globe.
- 3:36These here are election results of
- 3:38right-wing populist parties in Europe
- 3:40over the last 20 years. RN in France,
- 3:44Lega and FDI in Italy, the FPÖ and
- 3:46BZÖ in Austria, the PVV in the
- 3:48Netherlands, UKIP and Reform in England
- 3:50, Chega in Portugal, the Sweden
- 3:52Democrats in Sweden, Fidesz in Hungary,
- 3:55PiS in Poland, and many others. If you
- 3:59look at it all together, there is a
- 4:01clear trend. Of course, with nuances.
- 4:04In Greece, for example, there are three
- 4:06right-wing populist parties in
- 4:08parliament, and together they have
- 4:10about 15%. In Hungary, the
- 4:12then-governing party Fidesz became
- 4:14increasingly right-wing populist over
- 4:16time and effectively took the job away
- 4:19from the Jobbik party, which had
- 4:21previously defined right-wing populism
- 4:23there. Once again, it's the foreigners
- 4:25'fault that the job was taken away. In
- 4:28Ireland, there is no major right-wing
- 4:29populist party in parliament. However,
- 4:32in the last presidential election,
- 4:34almost 13%spoiled their ballots in
- 4:36protest. Often because there was no
- 4:39right-wing candidate to choose from.
- 4:41But even if there are such local
- 4:43differences, fundamentally there is a
- 4:44trend, and it exists not only in Europe
- 4:46. In the USA, which realistically only
- 4:49has two parties, the trend is that the
- 4:51Republicans became more right-wing
- 4:52populist, first with the Tea Party
- 4:54movement and then with MAGA and Trump.
- 4:57During this time, there has also been
- 4:58an increasing shift toward right-wing
- 5:00populists in South America in recent
- 5:02years. Bolsonaro in Brazil, Bukele in
- 5:04El Salvador, Milei in Argentina, but
- 5:06also in Chile, Colombia, and Peru. In
- 5:09Japan, a populist party recently grew
- 5:11from one to 14 seats in 3 years with 12
- 5:14%of the vote. So there is obviously a
- 5:17global trend toward right-wing populism
- 5:18, even if there are exceptions and
- 5:20local differences. And now the question
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- 7:00we are seeing a global trend toward
- 7:02right-wing populism? Chapter 2: 20
- 7:04years of crisis. Worldwide, people have
- 7:08become angrier, sadder, more anxious,
- 7:10and more stressed over the last 20
- 7:12years. And if you look at this time
- 7:14period, the same period during which
- 7:16right-wing populism has grown around
- 7:18the world, the century started with the
- 7:20dot-com bubble, then came September
- 7:2111th. September, then the 2008
- 7:23financial crisis, then the Euro crisis,
- 7:25Corona and the lockdowns, then the war
- 7:27in Ukraine, war in Gaza, and most
- 7:29recently the Iran war. All crises that
- 7:31just happen without us having any form
- 7:34of control over them. Crises that often
- 7:37had massive economic consequences,
- 7:39often worldwide. The thing is, after
- 7:42financial crises and higher inflation,
- 7:44right-wing parties usually gain ground,
- 7:47because populism works when inequality
- 7:49grows and people are afraid of losing
- 7:51their status. They feel powerless, and
- 7:54that’s where right-wing parties step
- 7:56in.
- 7:57The glorification of powerlessness is a
- 8:00central tool of this movement. This
- 8:02means the individual is persuaded. You
- 8:06can’t do anything anyway except
- 8:08support us, and that ultimately only a
- 8:10strong party, a strong leader, a strong
- 8:13movement can provide salvation.
- 8:15Economic inequality is bad for
- 8:18democracy. We see this here, for
- 8:20example, especially in East Germany,
- 8:22but also in the USA, for example. There
- 8:25it’s the Midwest versus the wealthy
- 8:27coastal regions, and in other EU
- 8:29countries, you see that too. map shows
- 8:32GDP per capita per German states and
- 8:34this map shows where people mostly
- 8:36voted for the rightwing populist party
- 8:39AFD. When we look at leaders like
- 8:41Marine Le Pen and Viktor Orbán, we see
- 8:44that they often struggle to gain
- 8:45traction in thriving, rich urban
- 8:47centers, but they dominate the vote in
- 8:50rural and declining areas.
- 8:52The corona crisis was an additional
- 8:54factor that reduced trust in science
- 8:56and government for some. In part
- 8:59because of the sheer amount of
- 9:00misinformation, but also because it was
- 9:02just a really awful time and the whole
- 9:04situation never really felt under
- 9:06control. Many felt powerless again, and
- 9:09right-wing parties stepped in. Crisis
- 9:12can also be a catalyst, and naturally,
- 9:15the so-called refugee crisis is a
- 9:17factor that cannot be ignored. This, of
- 9:20course, drove people who are critical
- 9:22of migration into the arms of
- 9:24right-wing populist parties. But just
- 9:27as you cannot ignore this factor, it
- 9:29would be just as wrong to see it as the
- 9:30only factor. Voters Voters who have
- 9:42concerns about immigration are economic
- 9:45people.
- 9:56Economic uncertainty is being exploited
- 9:58to play people against one another. The
- 10:02first obvious conclusion is that AfD
- 10:04voters have economic hardships and
- 10:07fears of social decline. This is
- 10:11projected onto the idea that, oh God,
- 10:13the people coming from the outside want
- 10:15to take something away from me. I am
- 10:18doing so poorly because they are coming
- 10:20. And the AfD has mastered that game
- 10:23perfectly. That does not mean that it
- 10:25cannot be a legitimate opinion to say
- 10:27that migration should be better managed
- 10:29. But when talking about the topic of
- 10:32migration, it is often more about fears
- 10:34and feelings than about facts.
- 10:36Right-wing parties continue to grow,
- 10:37even though the number of asylum
- 10:39applications has been steadily
- 10:40declining in recent years. In an MDR
- 10:42interview, the lead AfD candidate from
- 10:44Saxony-Anhalt was confronted with the
- 10:46fact that there are half as many crimes
- 10:48today as there were in the 90s. And
- 10:50this was his response. I want people to
- 10:53feel safe as well, regardless of any
- 10:55theoretical statistics from the 90s.
- 10:57It is more about the feeling than the
- 10:59statistics. And I can even understand
- 11:02that a little bit, because, of course,
- 11:04in the end it doesn't matter if I
- 11:05factually know that an airplane is the
- 11:07safest mode of transport if I have a
- 11:09fear of flying anyway. You usually
- 11:12cannot win against feelings with facts.
- 11:15And it is unfortunately the case that
- 11:17the world feels increasingly unstable.
- 11:19It is initially irrelevant what it is
- 11:21that you are afraid of. I also look to
- 11:23the future with skepticism. Everything
- 11:24is getting more expensive, everything
- 11:25is getting more complex, everyone is
- 11:26yelling at each other more. And I also
- 11:29believe that we often fail socially and
- 11:31politically to offer good solutions
- 11:32here. So I do not want to deny that
- 11:36this plays a role, but it cannot be the
- 11:38only reason, because crises existed in
- 11:40the past as well. My thesis is
- 11:42therefore that it is not the crises
- 11:44themselves that have changed, but the
- 11:46discourse surrounding them and how
- 11:48these crises are being exploited. If
- 11:51you look at all these right-wing
- 11:53populist parties, you notice that they
- 11:55don't just share growth, but often a
- 11:58few other things as well, for example,
- 12:00this thing. Elon Musk, chapter 3: Rich
- 12:09and right-wing. I probably don't need
- 12:11to tell you that Elon Musk is a big
- 12:13Donald Trump fan and is spending
- 12:15hundreds of millions for a Republican
- 12:17victory. Or that Elon Musk actively
- 12:19promotes the AfD, probably not either.
- 12:23AfD. Really best Germany. But did you
- 12:34know that Elon Musk also supports the
- 12:36right-wing in England and in Spain,
- 12:38that he was first close with Meloni in
- 12:40Italy before joining in with the other
- 12:42right-wing party there, and not just
- 12:45the AfD; that he meets with Viktor
- 12:47Orbán from Hungary, meddles with the
- 12:49conservatives in Canada, or that he is
- 12:52such a big supporter of Milei from
- 12:55Argentina that he even mimics his
- 12:57chainsaw move? Bureaucracy.
- 13:07The world’s first trillionaire loves
- 13:10to promote right-wing populist parties.
- 13:13Just like his colleague Peter Thiel and
- 13:15many, many other very rich men. NIUS,
- 13:18basically the unofficial press office
- 13:20of the AfD, is financed by one of the
- 13:22richest people in Germany, and not
- 13:24because it’s a good business that
- 13:26brings him a lot of money. On the
- 13:28contrary, NIUS probably couldn't stay
- 13:30afloat without him. A major donor to
- 13:33the AfD is a billionaire. Bolsonaro in
- 13:35Brazil was supported by one of the
- 13:37richest people there. In France, the
- 13:39billionaire Stérin finances the
- 13:40right-wing there. And in England, the
- 13:43right-wing populist Nigel Farage
- 13:45recently had to step down because he "
- 13:47forgot" to mention that he had just
- 13:49been gifted 5 million pounds by the
- 13:51sixth-richest person in Great Britain.
- 13:54He was re-elected anyway, but at least
- 13:57that convinced 27%of the voters to vote
- 13:59for a literal trash can instead of him.
- 14:03We are heading into 2026. In the same
- 14:06period that we see a rise in right-wing
- 14:09populism, we also see that the rich
- 14:11have been getting richer and richer.
- 14:14With Elon Musk, we even had the first
- 14:16trillionaire this year. I could cite
- 14:19all sorts of statistics here, for
- 14:21example, that 60,000 people possess
- 14:23three times as much wealth as the
- 14:25entire bottom half of humanity, or that
- 14:27billionaires alone have accumulated
- 14:29more wealth since 2020. But I don’t
- 14:32think that’s necessary, because it is
- 14:34clear to us all that there is great
- 14:36inequality, and while everything is
- 14:37becoming more expensive, the richest
- 14:39are getting richer and we are not. I
- 14:41would claim that most of you do not
- 14:43have 81%more money than you did in 2020
- 14:46. But did you know that, according to
- 14:50Oxfam, billionaires are 4,000 times
- 14:52more likely to hold political office?
- 14:55I'll gladly say it again. Economic
- 14:57inequality is one reason why
- 15:00democracies fail. That wealth confers
- 15:02power, whether through political
- 15:04donations, lobbying, or contacts and so
- 15:06on, we all know that. But I think it
- 15:08has rarely been this blatantly obvious.
- 15:12as it is with Elon Musk, whether
- 15:14through his role in the US government,
- 15:16his manipulation of Twitter, the
- 15:18massive donations he makes, or by
- 15:20supporting right-wing populist parties
- 15:22in at least 18 countries. Why does he
- 15:25do it? Why do so many wealthy people do
- 15:27it? Maybe because having political
- 15:29alliances makes them even richer. Maybe
- 15:32it's because more left-leaning parties
- 15:34advocate for higher taxes on the
- 15:36wealthy, and billionaires often dislike
- 15:39that, like the Google co-founder who
- 15:41was able to spend over 100 million on
- 15:43ads to make sure California wouldn't
- 15:45introduce a wealth tax. Perhaps wealthy
- 15:49people like Elon Musk are also
- 15:50genuinely convinced that the world is
- 15:52better if every country becomes more
- 15:54nationalistic. In fact, there is a
- 15:57group of people around Peter Thiel and
- 15:59Elon Musk who are followers of Curtis
- 16:01Yarvin, an influential Silicon Valley
- 16:03thought leader who argues that
- 16:05democracy must be abolished. Maybe it's
- 16:09a mix of all of the above, but it’s a
- 16:12funny coincidence that Elon Musk acts
- 16:14out a version of this cartoon every
- 16:16week. Watch out, the foreigner wants
- 16:20your cookie. To sum it up briefly. Yes,
- 16:23there have been crises in the last 20
- 16:25years. While these crises had economic
- 16:27impacts on most people, wealthy
- 16:29individuals grew ever richer during the
- 16:31same time and increased their influence
- 16:33. And some of them apparently use this
- 16:36growing influence and wealth to divide
- 16:38society by poisoning the discourse
- 16:40surrounding these crises. Perhaps out
- 16:43of conviction, perhaps because it helps
- 16:45them protect or increase their wealth.
- 16:47Perhaps both, but Elon Musk isn't the
- 16:50only thing these parties have in common
- 16:52. There is also Chapter 4: Russia. Many
- 16:57right-wing populist parties in Europe
- 16:59don't just share Elon Musk as a common
- 17:01friend, but also Vladimir Putin. Marine
- 17:04Le Pen from France, a friend of Putin.
- 17:06The FPÖ in Austria, friends of Putin.
- 17:09Lega in Italy, friends of Putin. Viktor
- 17:11Orbán from Hungary, a friend of Putin.
- 17:14Wilders in the Netherlands, Putin likes
- 17:16him. The AfD, Putin is a fan. We know
- 17:20that Russia supports and promotes
- 17:21various right-wing populist parties, be
- 17:23it in 2016 through influence on Donald
- 17:25Trump's election or the manipulation of
- 17:27the election in Romania two years ago.
- 17:30Here, too, the candidate was an
- 17:31ultra-right-winger, or through the
- 17:33influence on Brexit in favor of the
- 17:35right-wing populist party UKIP, or
- 17:37through direct payments to an AfD
- 17:38member of parliament. We know that
- 17:41Russia specifically uses social media
- 17:43to divide society and stir people up
- 17:44against each other. For example, in the
- 17:47USA in the context of the Black Lives
- 17:49Matter movement and through a large
- 17:51disinformation strategy. At this very
- 17:53moment, a disinformation campaign is
- 17:55running with the goal of influencing
- 17:58state elections in favor of the AfD and
- 18:00the BSW. And the origin is likely
- 18:03Russia. Okay, so am I trying to tell
- 18:05you that Russia and Elon Musk are to
- 18:07blame for the growing right-wing
- 18:08populism around the world? Absolutely
- 18:11not. Russia also supports some
- 18:13left-wing populists. Much of this video
- 18:15applies to populism in general. Russia
- 18:19simply benefits from parties that
- 18:21oppose Ukraine. But even apart from the
- 18:24war in Ukraine, Russia strategically
- 18:26benefits from a fractured society in
- 18:28Europe and the USA. When the EU or NATO
- 18:30do not stick together, but are instead
- 18:32divided by infighting. When the
- 18:34political landscape does not pull
- 18:37together on important issues, then
- 18:39Russia wins. That is why I do believe
- 18:42that Russia certainly contributes to
- 18:44strengthening right-wing populists
- 18:46worldwide, just as Elon Musk does for
- 18:48his own interests. To what extent is
- 18:50hard to say, but for my point, that is
- 18:52completely irrelevant. The reason I
- 18:55mention Elon Musk and Russia here is
- 18:58because they show us most clearly what
- 19:00I believe is the real problem, by
- 19:02exploiting it most obviously. Social
- 19:07media. Chapter 5. The internet. is
- 19:10breaking us. Elon Musk on Twitter or
- 19:13disinformation campaigns from Russia.
- 19:15The internet has made all of that
- 19:17possible. Corona divided society
- 19:20because it was a highly complex
- 19:21situation, but also because we were all
- 19:23suddenly just glued to our phones at
- 19:25home and arguing with each other. I
- 19:28would even argue that we have all
- 19:29become angrier, sadder, more anxious,
- 19:31and more stressed worldwide. Not
- 19:33because of the crises, because as I
- 19:35said, those have always existed, but
- 19:36because of the time we have been
- 19:38spending on social media ever since.
- 19:41Even without unpacking specific studies
- 19:43here, I think it is clear to everyone
- 19:45that social media has made a massive
- 19:47contribution worldwide to dividing and
- 19:49radicalizing society. Whether it is
- 19:52recommendation algorithms that
- 19:53supposedly create so-called rabbit hole
- 19:56effects, meaning people are shown
- 19:57increasingly radical content. However,
- 19:59it is also debated whether that
- 20:01actually exists. It could also be the
- 20:02opposite, that people are confronted
- 20:04with more extreme opposing opinions
- 20:06that make them angry. Whether it's the
- 20:09attention economy, meaning clickbait
- 20:11and wildly emotional statements are
- 20:13rewarded by us with clicks, or that we
- 20:15only read headlines that increasingly
- 20:17show how terrible everything is, which
- 20:19distorts our perception, or that
- 20:21because everyone suddenly has a voice,
- 20:23the absolute extremes of the opinion
- 20:26spectrum—the Overton window, meaning
- 20:29what is considered socially acceptable
- 20:31—have expanded so drastically that we
- 20:33are confronted with populist statements
- 20:36every single day. Regardless of what
- 20:38all the ultimate reasons are, according
- 20:41to one study, the mere existence of
- 20:43mobile internet access promotes
- 20:44right-wing populism because it fosters
- 20:47tribalism and causes you to start
- 20:48disliking strangers. I think anyone who
- 20:51has ever looked at the internet can
- 20:52understand that. You really start to
- 20:54hate other people if you ever look at
- 20:57the comments. Well, except for you guys
- 20:59, of course. You are cool, and this
- 21:01isn't even the internet's fault; rather
- 21:02, we as humans are just like this. We
- 21:05love belonging to a tribe and showing
- 21:07everyone in our tribe that we think the
- 21:09others are really stupid. I am doing
- 21:12the same thing right now with this
- 21:13video. The internet also makes it so
- 21:15much easier, because in real life you
- 21:17would have interrupted my monologue
- 21:19here at least ten times. The same
- 21:21mechanisms that make social media
- 21:22successful are dividing society. And
- 21:25that doesn't even take into account
- 21:27that the internet has made it so
- 21:28incredibly easy to spread
- 21:30disinformation everywhere. My argument
- 21:33is therefore not that Russia or Elon
- 21:35Musk are to blame, but that they are
- 21:37the most obvious example of the actual
- 21:39global problem. The internet has
- 21:42screwed up our society. And because men
- 21:45and women often consume different
- 21:47content on the internet, this would,
- 21:49for example, also explain why the same
- 21:50crises have different outcomes and
- 21:52right-wing dudes can't get dates
- 21:54anymore. Chapter 6. Okay, but what do
- 21:57we do with this info now? We know that
- 21:59similar things are happening globally.
- 22:01This suggests that there are perhaps
- 22:03similar causes globally and that we
- 22:05might need to do something about it
- 22:06globally as well. We have known for
- 22:09years how social media negatively
- 22:11affects society. We have known for
- 22:13years that Russia influences our
- 22:15politics through social media. The
- 22:17points I am addressing here have been
- 22:19discussed for at least 10 years, at the
- 22:22latest since the first election of
- 22:24Donald Trump, but partly even longer—
- 22:26already in 2005 there was a study on
- 22:28political blogs. Does anyone even
- 22:31remember blogs? And it came to the
- 22:34conclusion that even back then
- 22:35polarization could be seen among
- 22:36bloggers, and moderate centrist blogs
- 22:38had hardly any success. But even though
- 22:41we know this, somehow nobody changes
- 22:43anything. This video won't change
- 22:46anything for anyone either. The problem
- 22:49I'm creating in this video is that I'm
- 22:51trying to explain why people have what
- 22:53I consider to be wrong opinions, and in
- 22:55doing so, I'm somehow denying that they
- 22:58are genuinely angry. Someone just made
- 23:01them angry, so angry that they are
- 23:02prepared to vote for a party that is in
- 23:04parts confirmed to be right-wing
- 23:06extremist. Social media is to blame,
- 23:09Russia, the fake news, and not the
- 23:11reality, the bad policy that is making
- 23:13them angry. This video will convince no
- 23:16one. This video changes nothing about
- 23:18the feeling. A feeling that exists in
- 23:21reality because we are all exhausted.
- 23:23And it would be naive to believe that
- 23:25everyone who votes for the AfD was
- 23:27simply misguided. Of course not. Many
- 23:29are convinced by the right-wing
- 23:31extremist positions, but the majority
- 23:33of people who voted for the AfD for the
- 23:35first time in the last federal election
- 23:37actually do so not out of conviction,
- 23:39but out of disappointment. And there
- 23:42are many approaches on how one could
- 23:43win these people back. In my video on
- 24:05the last federal election, I already
- 24:06said it: Germany isn't doing all that
- 24:07badly yet. The money is just not
- 24:10distributed very evenly and growth
- 24:12could be a bit better, but we are still
- 24:14the third-largest economy in the world.
- 24:17Politics just has to prove that a
- 24:19positive future lies ahead of us, that
- 24:21one can trust the government. That is
- 24:24the job of the politicians. But we as a
- 24:27society can also do something. "Der
- 24:29Spiegel" interviewed five experts on
- 24:31this a few weeks ago. What helps
- 24:33against right-wing extremists? Spoiler
- 24:35alert: it's not a "Spiegel" cover. One
- 24:38of the experts said that we need a
- 24:40movement for change where everyone
- 24:42sticks together through an honest
- 24:43description of the problems, a vision
- 24:45that makes you want to get started,
- 24:47through the feeling that everyone can
- 24:49contribute through community. Another
- 24:52expert in the article also reaches a
- 24:54similar conclusion by citing an example
- 24:56. In France, it was found that support
- 25:00for right-wing populists increases when
- 25:03the local bar closes and decreases when
- 25:06a new bar opens. The next expert said
- 25:09there is a need for more low-threshold
- 25:11opportunities for participation in real
- 25:13life. Clubs, neighborhood projects,
- 25:16citizens' forums, and the next expert
- 25:18says again that more community is
- 25:20needed. And the last expert recommends:
- 25:22clubs. Isn't it strange that
- 25:25polarization is increasing worldwide at
- 25:27the same time? From the moment we all
- 25:31increasingly hole up in our phones
- 25:33worldwide, doomscrolling and hurling
- 25:35insults at anonymous people, while
- 25:38polarization apparently decreases when
- 25:40we all meet in real life, encounter
- 25:42real people, and work together on the
- 25:45problems of our time. Perhaps that is
- 25:48one reason why the AfD wants to abolish
- 25:50NGOs. In closing, I would like to leave
- 25:52you with one thing before the state
- 25:54election. It may be that over 40%of
- 25:56people end up voting for the AfD, and
- 25:58for the first time in the history of
- 26:00the Federal Republic, we might have a
- 26:02far-right party in government there.
- 26:06But 60%do not want them. It may be that
- 26:10nationwide the AfD is currently at 28%
- 26:12in the polls, but that also means 72%do
- 26:14not want a party that is in parts
- 26:16far-right. We must also not make the
- 26:19AfD and this global trend larger than
- 26:22it is. What we should make larger is
- 26:25what the right-wing populists do not
- 26:27offer, but what we all—even AfD
- 26:28voters—actually want. More community
- 26:32and a better future.
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