German "extreme" parties make gains in recent
elections.
This includes the Party of Democratic Socialism, famous for having people killed at the Berlin Wall, and the National Democratic Party, which is also socialist but took that out of their name to differentiate them from the
National Socialist German Workers Party.
"Whoever votes for the extremists is teaching nobody a lesson," warned Georg Braun, head of another trade group, in the Berliner Zeitung. "He harms the image, and through that the economic growth of his home region for years."
If you don't give people a practical alternative to extremist parties, you're doing nobody any good. Germany has been horribly mismanaged into a nanny-state and the people responsible refuse to accept that they've totally screwed up their ecomony. Their blaming others is what fuels "extremist" parties who believe that they can solve the problems by destroying whomever the "moderate" government has made scapegoat.
Le Pen demonstrated the same thing in France during their last presidental election. Socialism has destroyed the economic structure of every country that has adopted it but goes unchallenged in Europe. With every major party endorsing a failed economic plan, people who want a real improvement are forced to gamble on an "extremist" party.
Goe, cause the 'free world' is a pretty damned small place.
