“The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you’ll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra – you can cut off its head in the Germany of the ’30s and ’40s, but it’ll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.” Alan Moore
The alarm is raised. Germany’s far-right AfD party won a major parliamentary election victory in the state election of Saxony-Anhalt sending shockwaves through certain circles in Germany and throughout the world.
AfD is an anti-immigration party and they have been labeled as xenophobic and extremist by German intelligence. The far-right party is headed by co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupulla. Weidel comes across as a moderate wearing suits and pearls but don’t let that fool you, her rhetoric is anything but.
Here are some of their plans culled from different sources.
The party will launch a state-level deportation offensive with an established task force coordinating quicker deportations. Sound familiar?
If that’s not enough, they will remove war refugee status for Ukranians in Germany. Children of refugees will learn that their stay is temporary and they will be placed in separate classes in order to prevent “various stresses” placed on the OTHER children to stop them from being around different cultures.
They also want to limit Islamic expression, ban the call to prayer and, get this, they want a hand in how mosques are decorated.
This last part should get the alarm bells going. They want to establish a special police force. According to them the regular police are “overwhelmed” so, “We will therefore establish a voluntary citizen patrol as a third pillar of the local security architecture,” basically a vigilante group. Similar to ICE?
The party is gaining popularity capitalizing on fears about immigration and this is being used, successfully I might add, to further their own political gains.
AfD gained 43.8 % of the votes but it is not enough to govern alone. The “Brandmauer” or rather “firewall” is an unwritten rule where mainstream parties refuse to cooperate, work with, or form coalitions with the far-right. Will this isolationist tactic also known as “cordon sanitaire” keep or put AfD in its place?
Or are we seeing the return of Hitler and his policies in another guise and in another form?
