re: #336 Targetpractice

You might think the SPD would have learned from history, as it was their refusal to work with the KPD (Communist Party of Germany) to create a coalition gov’t that allowed the Nazis to get a major foothold in the Reichstag.

Germany is now saddled with two parties, both rooted in the East; one ex-communist and extreme leftist, and the other far right, and neither of which is acceptable as a coalition partner to any of the other parties.

The AfD seems to be made up of some politicians with a right-wing agenda, some who are extreme, uncompromising right-wing ideologues, and others who are a mixture of sociopaths, sadists and cryptofascists. Right now they enjoy the luxury of being the protest party, they do not have to present any viable programs, they can just oppose anything they do not like.