{"id":56371,"date":"2024-09-03T16:51:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56371"},"modified":"2024-09-03T16:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:51:40","slug":"people-are-speaking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56371","title":{"rendered":"People Are Speaking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2024\/09\/01\/ticker-german-far-right-party-wins-its-first-state-election-since-world-war-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Boston Herald<\/a> reported that the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD party has won a state election. The article describes the party as far-right. They are known to be anti-immigration and skeptical toward German military aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A far-right party won a state election for the first time in post-World War II Germany in the country\u2019s east on Sunday, and was set to finish at least a very close second to mainstream conservatives in a second vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A new party founded by a prominent leftist also made an immediate impact, while the parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s unpopular national government obtained extremely weak results.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Projections for ARD and ZDF public television based on exit polls and partial counting showed the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, winning 32-33% of the vote in Thuringia \u2014 well ahead of the center-right Christian Democratic Union, the main national opposition party, with about 24%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In neighboring Saxony, projections put support for the CDU, which has led the state since German reunification in 1990, at 31.5-31.8% and AfD on 30.8-31.4%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s immigration policies have been a problem for the country. German women have been assaulted by immigrants who have different rules about women&#8217;s dress and customs relating to women, crime in general has increased drastically, and the Germans are in danger of losing their culture. The fact that an anti-immigration party and anti-aid to Ukraine party did well in the recent elections is not a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, The Boston Herald reported that the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD party has won a state election. The article describes the party as far-right. They are known to be anti-immigration and skeptical toward German military aid to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56371\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[295,1291,1092,1399,15045,7146],"class_list":["post-56371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boston-herald","tag-elections","tag-germany","tag-immigration","tag-the-boston-herald","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56393,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56371\/revisions\/56393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}