Who is in charge of the AfD? An informative documentary on ARD discusses this topic.
Frankfurt – “Diesel creates jobs”. Funny idea, right? Maybe a bit bizarre when you consider who started the diesel affair back then and what it did at Volkswagen, BMW, and Daimler. So the AfD could, but doesn’t want to know any better. She often wants to fall behind the facts, into a world that is how simple minds idealize yesterday. A world in which Germany is inhabited by a single people and no one dares to immigrate here. A world in which you can recognize criminals and anti-social people by their hair and skin color and in which a man at the top tells everyone where to go.
In the AfD, says AfD dropout Franziska Schreiber, not harmless, but “dangerous weirdos” are gathered. You are not forgotten about history, but obsessed with history. On the whole, it would be all right for them if things went like they did between 1933 and 1939 in Germany, only without the street fights with the communists and with a little more prosperity. Then they could think twice about the war.
For info
“The AfD in the super election year”, ARD, Mon, July 26th, 10 pm. In the network in the ARD media library.
“The AfD in the super election year” (ARD): Goebbels fan Bernd Höcke is extremely credible
And they’re furious that so much has changed: decline! Asylum fraud! Danger! Anger is a very intense emotional message. That is why the emotional strategy in any AfD election campaign noise is the generation of anger. Jana Merkel, Eric Beres and Sabina Wolf watch in their film “The AfD in the Super Election Year” on ARD what the AfD is doing in the election campaign. Party leader Meuthen says the year 2021 will be a fateful year for the party. There is a danger of sinking into political insignificance if the right-wing extremist wing develops its influence and the constitution protection classifies the whole party as an object of observation (which, with all due respect, would never have happened under a head of the authorities Maassen). As a precaution and fatefulness, Meuthen is keeping a distance from the Völkische.
Is that believable? Probably not, think many people who observe the AfD from a journalistic or political science perspective. In general, there is some thing about the AfD that is not really credible, except for its being inspired by the past. And Björn Höcke. With his persistence, he is extremely credible.
“The AfD in the super election year” (ARD): Excited nonsense from the AfD
The three filmmakers do a lot to make watching the ARD documentary easier and not to let the emotional waves beat too high. They only let the AfD protagonists have their say when they talk their excited nonsense into the world from the election stages. You only listen briefly, and as soon as it becomes apparent what kind of worldview is beginning to take shape again, a knowledgeable commentator comes along and says something orderly. This is beneficial because the ideological quark is not trodden too broadly.
It can also be seen how the strategy of dowelling keywords in the public discourse in order to hang brown and black uniforms on them is supposed to work. A short film that encourages you to take a closer look and listen. (Hans-Jürgen Linke)
