CDU/CSU (Union) I’d compare to the Rockefeller Republicans, though nowadays with an icky nationalistic tint.
SPD is what Bernie would claim to be, but doesn’t encapsulate what Bernie is, having sold out sometimes to neolibs. Bernie is what the SPD would’ve been, had it held its head straight.
Linke can be comparable to the DSA (Democratic Socialists USA).
BSW is a weird thing. I mean, it’s a populist one-woman show designed to keep that woman in the discussion so she keeps getting invited and can sell her talks, but what Wagenknecht argues for are a. tankie takes and cuddling with Putin, and b. kinda socialist takes but only for germans. If it was a term not loaded with such historic weight and meaning, you could call the party “national socialist”.
Now, obviously actual national socialists, Nazis, were what they were, the absolute worst thing you could ever imagine. But without that context and taking the terms at face value, that would be BSW.
Call me stupid (and you’d be justified for calling me so!), but I feel like it’s a good thing if BSW is there in that it snoops votes away from people who otherwise vote AfD. They’re both terrible, but BSW at least tries to fight privatisation where AfD puts everything into the hands of unelected profit-motivated tech moguls.
That said, I’d take the SDP, Grünen and Linke over those anyday.
Interesting. Many more people who didn’t vote before, I see. About 1,880,000 votes.
So, about …
23.4% from SPD
21.3% who didn’t vote before
18.6% from Linke
13.8% from FDP
11.7% from Union
8% from Grünen
3.2% from AfD
Interesting. So it mainly got votes from the “non-Green” Left and non-voters, with FDP, Union, and Grünen having less joiners, but nonetheless fairly evenly distributed, and AfD last.
CDU/CSU (Union) I’d compare to the Rockefeller Republicans, though nowadays with an icky nationalistic tint.
SPD is what Bernie would claim to be, but doesn’t encapsulate what Bernie is, having sold out sometimes to neolibs. Bernie is what the SPD would’ve been, had it held its head straight.
Linke can be comparable to the DSA (Democratic Socialists USA).
FDP - Establishment Democrats
AfD - what you said, MAGA
Bundnis - What MAGAhats think communists are
BSW is a weird thing. I mean, it’s a populist one-woman show designed to keep that woman in the discussion so she keeps getting invited and can sell her talks, but what Wagenknecht argues for are a. tankie takes and cuddling with Putin, and b. kinda socialist takes but only for germans. If it was a term not loaded with such historic weight and meaning, you could call the party “national socialist”.
Now, obviously actual national socialists, Nazis, were what they were, the absolute worst thing you could ever imagine. But without that context and taking the terms at face value, that would be BSW.
Call me stupid (and you’d be justified for calling me so!), but I feel like it’s a good thing if BSW is there in that it snoops votes away from people who otherwise vote AfD. They’re both terrible, but BSW at least tries to fight privatisation where AfD puts everything into the hands of unelected profit-motivated tech moguls.
That said, I’d take the SDP, Grünen and Linke over those anyday.
That doesn’t quite work though, BSW doesn’t attract many AfD voters.
Huh. Where does its voter base then come from?
From antivaxer idiots who don’t vote Nazis and tankies who don’t vote The Left.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2025-02-23-BT-DE/charts/analyse-wanderung/chart_1873623.shtml
Here is a graph showing which party voters who voted BSW in the federal election of 2025 in the 2021 feseral election.
Interesting. Many more people who didn’t vote before, I see. About 1,880,000 votes.
So, about …
23.4% from SPD
21.3% who didn’t vote before
18.6% from Linke
13.8% from FDP
11.7% from Union
8% from Grünen
3.2% from AfD
Interesting. So it mainly got votes from the “non-Green” Left and non-voters, with FDP, Union, and Grünen having less joiners, but nonetheless fairly evenly distributed, and AfD last.
How about AfD?
Because the AfD isn’t voted for their political positions. People vote AfD for vibes, hatred and misdirected frustration.