Thanks for the info. Officially AfD denies the allegations of being a neo-Nazi party. I didn’t know they have idiots among them or their supporters sharing some of the Nazi sentiment.
Unfortunate for the Germans and a direct result of their indiscriminate suicidal immigration policy. Obviously in Germany there’s an acute populist need in a nationalist, anti immigration movement.
More complicated an issue that you present it.
1. All Western nations are not replacing population via birthrate and have a shrinking, aging population. They must import young people from the 3rd World.
2. All Western nations have signed the UN convention on refugees and have to grant asylum hearings to asylum seekers. The Mid East produces a lot of genuine asylum seekers due to its wars and oppression.
3. Most immigrants are "different", but try to fit in and adapt to the host country. A few asshole immigrants resist doing this.
4. The media focuses intensely on non-adapters and criminals and portrays the immigrants as racially criminal and non adaptive. In return, the media owners can expect favours from the far right politicians when the latter get into power. It's a quid pro quo.
5. For older residents of European countries, it is emotionally jarring and upsetting to see immigrant communities taking over familiar neighbourhoods and making those neighborhoods "look different". My dear old mom was terrified to go out when she visited her older sister in South London because her old - previously very white - neighborhood had become Jamaican. This is an immense emotional shock to many residents and very alienating. (Because Toronto is suburban, the impact of this change is far less here).
So it's an easy trap for extreme right parties and rich media magnates to set up.
The government must import people. But importing people stirs up discomfort and resentment. And this can then be turned into fear and rage by featuring immigrants as criminals or fanatics.
Predictably, around 25% of the white population will gravitate towards far right, ultra nationalist parties in European countries. These are usually older, less educated or more isolated people who have less contact with the majority of immigrants who try to adapt and fit in.
Because these groups are less sophisticated, they are easier to mislead with bullshit and hate propaganda. This also causes a split in voting patterns. Less educated people and those from smaller centres vote increasingly far right. Urban dwellers and the more educated (often the same thing) vote increasingly centre left or far left.
This leads to further impacts. Employer avoid hiring immigrants and some countries marginalize them by putting them in welfare housing on the peripheries of cities. This leads to ghetto-ization and encourages immigrants to commit crime and become oppositional to established culture. Which plays into the media narrative.