Why the Right is on the Rise in Germany

In 2024, Germany faces chaos with a rising AfD, a rightward shift in Merkel's Christian Democrats, and a collapsing Left party. The governing coalition also adopts a more right-wing stance. This video explores the changing political landscape in Germany.

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0:00 Intro
1:34 How Germany is moving right
5:13 Why Germany is Moving Right
8:00 Sponsor

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CORRECTION: At 1:50, when we're talking about the AfD's popularity in Saxony, we mislabelled Saxony-Anhalt on the map. Saxony is in fact the region to the southeast, below Brandenburg and to the east of Thuringia. Apologies for this error; we hope this has cleared things up and you nonetheless enjoy the video!

[yvesgysel]

Almost every country in the EU is moving to the right. It's going to be weird results after this year's (2024) EU-elections.

[atharvadate]

Austria better start accepting every art student

[sfp]

In Denmark, we had this scenario back in 2015, during the migrant crisis.
The Danish People's Party was the only party back then, which was sceptical regarding the immigration. So when the Danes started viewing the current (back in 2015) issues with immigration as a problem, they started looking for a solution. And the only party back then, which had any kind of answer to the problem was the Danish People's Party.

To keep the story short. The Danish People's Party got incredibly big, and fast. Getting its' greatest election in their history. However, it was short lived. As the other more mainstream parties, whose voters had chosen the Danish People's Party, started copying their opinions regarding the issues with immigration. This resulted in the voters, for the most part, returning to the parties they voted for earlier.
With the mainstream parties adopting the strict immigration policies of the Danish People's Party (with some of the major ones, even going further) and new parties, who also wanted to go even further, the Danish People's Party basically faded out into obscurity. It is still active today, but we are talking about 1/4th of the votes they had before.

You could call them the great losers, because they have lost all of their power. Due to the voters leaving them.
You could also call them the great winners, as most of the powerful mainstream parties adopted their policies.


The same appears to be happening in Germany now. Even Sweden appears to have had a taste of this trend.


PS: I use the word "immigration" loosely. All of this is regarding refugees. Not immigrants who were accepted to live and work in Denmark, because of their skillset.

[AdamHahaha]

Imagine calling yourself the "green" party and supporting coal power plants instead of nuclear ones

[leverans]

All of Europe is shifting right, we are having a classic "where has my country gone" moment.

[johntoscano]

Answer: MASS immigration of a completely different culture that doesn’t generally want to assimilate to German culture and the associated rise in crime, it’s not that hard.

[Jan_III.]

Your pronunciation of Sahra Wagenknecht reminded me how lucky foreign news anchors were that Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
did not become chancellor

[thomasbach]

You forgot the other (probably most important) reason: Too many immigrants at once, which can't be handled properly. This also increases prices for appartments and houses. Also there are too many immigrants who do not work and too many are committing crimes but do not get deported, but can stay.

[haruspex-]

Uncontrolled mainly male Islamic immigration is a big cause. Also lack of assimilation to the native culture plays a big part

[Sendu]

Q. Why the Right is on the Rise in Germany A. Uncontrolled immigration

[alexanderc.]

Small note: the state you marked as Saxony on the map at 1:54 is actually Saxony-Anhalt. Saxony lies east of Thuringia and south of Brandenburg.

[bababababababa]

May as well make this into a series and make a video on every European country as they’re all moving right


Yeah sorry I know except UK but that’s only because Tories suck and they don’t have many other options there

[HeirToTheScarletSky]

The immigration (specifically refugee) issue can't be overstated. I work with a number of German colleagues in Berlin. During new year they all deliberately stayed home in case of another riot involving fireworks.

All while people from other countries (UK and the Netherlands) were on a video call discussing their positive experiences.

[Elmesiasdelgol]

I wish the best to German people as a Volga-German descent from Argentina 🇦🇷🤝🏻🇩🇪

[ymtzlgn]

Time to call it for what it is. Uncontrolled migration of people that do not align with their values is the main reason Europe as a whole and Germany in particular is moving right.

[andorgunczer]

„Wir schaffen das“ really started to depend on what „das“ means

[gibusllama]

Next episode, how Sweden are moving to the right. Episode after that, how France is moving to the right. Episode after that, how Switzerland is moving to the right...

[AncientKing]

Most of the countries are shifting right

[MovieRiotHD]

Not just Germany, the whole continent.