Von Butterpreisen zu Brandstiftern – wie offen Rechtsextreme heute hofiert werden!

You really have to let this sink in. An AfD state parliament member cancels her own event – and instead appears jointly with Martin Sellner, one of the most prominent faces of the Identitarian Movement. Publicly announced, openly promoted, with a direct invitation to supporters. Lena Kotre thanks him for the invitation, accepts it, and directs interested people straight to Sellner. Topic of the evening: remigration. Anyone who still talks about isolated cases at this point simply no longer wants to look.

And then a simple, uncomfortable question arises: Have some people really sunk so low that they vote for a party that cooperates with openly racist networks – just because butter has become more expensive or their own life is not going well at the moment? Or because it is easier to kick downward than to honestly ask why things are not working out in one’s own daily life? This is extremely dangerous, especially in eastern Germany. The Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies the AfD as confirmed right-wing extremist. If such a party gains governmental power or serious influence, American-style conditions become a real possibility. And what that means is something we know all too well. This meeting says a lot about the year 2026. It shows how quickly racism turns into normality – and normality into approval. Anyone who continues to downplay this is not mistaken, but is consciously choosing to look away and to become a perpetrator. It is part of human history that there are years that are harder than others. Times when many things do not work out, when insecurity grows and answers are missing. That has always been the case and always will be.

But anyone who, out of frustration over the wrong words or rising prices, throws ethics and humanity overboard should ask themselves what generations before us fought for – and what we want to leave to those who come after us. A society that lashes out downward out of fear? Or one that remembers that dignity is not negotiable. Nazis were never the legacy worth fighting for.

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