"It is not only the unbearable pandering of conservatives and reactionaries to rightwing extremists and their positions, but, above all, the fact that the federal government, composed of precisely these conservatives and reactionaries together with the Social Democratic party, is doing everything it can to maintain and reinforce the main reasons for voters drifting towards Alternative fur Deutschland: threats to living standards due to rising costs of living and, above all, rising rents, accompanied by increasing social inequality."
"This is much more important than symbolic firewalls and grandiose declarations. And one more thing: just as National Socialism drew its momentum in the early 1930s from the fear of large sections of the population of big business on the one hand and Bolshevism on the other, today the combined fear of the global financial elite on the one hand and the ecologically necessary but ideologically condemned ecological restructuring on the other is fuelling the rise of rightwing authoritarianism."
Conservative pandering and reactionary accommodation to rightwing extremists are strengthening fascist gains in Germany. The federal coalition of conservatives and the Social Democratic party preserves conditions driving voters toward Alternative für Deutschland by failing to address rising living costs, surging rents, and growing social inequality. Government policies favoring global finance capital exacerbate threats to living standards and undermine social cohesion. Symbolic measures, firewalls, and declarations cannot substitute for material policy changes to halt these trends. Historical parallels show that fear of economic elites and ideological battles over ecological restructuring can fuel contemporary rightwing authoritarian movements.
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