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That's not what I said. What I said is that I find it deplorable that a fifth of the population of Germany - yes, THAT GERMANY - is happily eating the cold vomit their country puked on the world 85 years ago.
A 20% of 84% eligible voters, or about 17% eligible voters, or about 15% of the population.
Keep in mind that if the turnout had been like the US2024's 64%, that result could have been anywhere between 0% and 26%, depending on who decided not to vote.
That's after all the manipulation from Musk and Russia. A lot of those people would act as surprised and betrayed as some in the US have over the past month. For starters, the AfD co-leader, an anti-immigrant pro-Nazi eurosceptic anti-democratic fascist Musky party that's pushing traditional family values... has herself an immigrant same-sex partner with whom she's raising two kids. Makes me think of a Serena Waterford case. 🤦
This is not reassuring.
15% of a population being Nazis is not reassuring in any country. But in Germany, the home of Nazism, that was utterly destroyed by Nazism, it's even scarier.
It gets more interesting with a map of the votes:
East Germany, vs. West Germany.
It's been somewhat of a theme in countries that endured USSR influence, to run a "commie scare" and fall straight into the arms of a neo-lib alt-right.