#and there was a disabled young woman and the afd candidate was so bad it literally turned my mom off of the party

[officialkendallroy]

hiii please feel free to ignore this, but exactly how popular is afd party among german public? social media is giving a very skewed impression of the size of their voter base.. or maybe i am just in denial and hoping that it is not so popular 😅 i was surprised to see even a few people in their 20s praising their policies online

before the vote today they predicted the afd at 20%...... they're massively popular, second most voted party (at least in the predictions). theyre more popular in eastern germany (where im from too) but they gained popularity throughout all ages and regions. i don't think your perception is skewed at all, even young people (especially in the east i would say) are falling for the propaganda. i think tiktok had a huge influence on that bc the afd was such a big presence on there and other parties couldn't keep up with it fast enough which led to many young being going down the afd rabbit hole. i also think due to covid and the loneliness rates going up rapidly and young people being affected by it the most that also sent people down the conspiracy pipeline and made them more vulnerable for the alt right way of thinking (there was a study on this I did a paper on it's actually kinda scary). our own political bubble really warps our perception of how things actually are and that's the case for me too!