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Gregkion 16 hours ago

No but a democracy should protect democracy.

AfD is concluding with russia, a country which poisned people on EU ground.

AfD also has plenty of real nazis doing nazi shit and AfD is not excluding them.

AfD is not democracy. AfD is antidemocracy even if it would get elected democratically.

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palmotea 16 hours ago | parent [-]

> AfD is not democracy. AfD is antidemocracy even if it would get elected democratically.

Here's a fun thing language-game to try: expand your definition of "democracy" to encompass your partisan political positions, don't tell anyone, yell from the rooftops that your opponents are "anti-democratic" and banning them is "democratic."

Then observe how you only convince yourself of your own righteousness, and further alienate the people you wished to persuade.

	▲	Gregkion 15 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		AfD is a facist party and anti-democratic. AfD fights against mechanism we have in place to protect the democracy. Has nothing to do with my own righteousness. AfD could easily do things against all of this garbage and they don't.
	▲	1718627440 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is certainly what could be the case, except it isn't. It was decided in 1949 what the current understanding of democracy in Germany is. You could of course decide to define democracy as broad so that it also encompasses the Athenian democracy, but that is not what we currently mean when we speak of a liberal democracy. If party A, being labeled as communist by party B, and party B, being labeled as fascistic by party A, both agree, as well as all other parties in-between, that you are a threat to democracy, maybe you are. If you are looking for a party that labels itself democratic and all others anti-democratic, you need to look at the AfD themself.