From Berlin to Rome, the protest vote takes place amidst closed factories, nuclear power shut down and skyrocketing bills
After Saxony-Anhalt, Alternatives for Germany it also conquered Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, becoming the most voted party in the region. In itself this is not great news: he will continue to govern in Berlin Friedrich Merz or some other exponent of the Cdualso because the Land that went to the vote last Sunday is one of the least populated in Germany, with just one and a half million inhabitants. However, this is not the point: the issue is that the AfD’s advance seems unstoppable and the traditional parties, instead of making an effort to understand the reasons that lead Germans to vote for the far right, are studying how to ban voting that they don’t like. In practice, by failing to abolish the AfD, they aim to make its consensus ineffective by spreading a sort of sanitary cord that prevents any alliance.
It would be as if someone, having an allergic reaction, instead of worrying about the reasons for the skin rash, only cared about covering it so that it cannot be seen. There is a reason if voters vote Alternative für Deutschland: in Saxony-Anhalt the cause is probably to be found in immigration and a Green deal which led to the closure of many companies, while in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the lowest per capita income in the country weighs heavily. Without forgetting the energy choices imposed by Greenswhich led to the closure of 17 nuclear power plants and the consequent increase in bills, also due to the war in Ukraine.
The economic root of dissent and the parallel with Italy
That is, behind phenomena like that of the AfD there is not the sudden adhesion of hundreds of thousands of voters to extremist theses, but there are precise reasons for discontentwhich push people to seek answers to their problems. The same applies to both Germany and Italy. How do you think the average Italian might react to the crimes committed by foreigners and the almost total impunity that many immigrants enjoy? It is obvious that the population most in contact with phenomena of degradation will vote for those who promise to clean up the criminals.
Take the cases that have made the front pages of our newspaper in recent weeks. A jeweler who is the victim of a violent robbery reacts, chases the bandits and kills them. For this he is sentenced to almost 15 years in prison and his assets are “expropriated” to compensate the robbers’ families. At the same time, a Bangladeshi man who raped a 13-year-old girl was set free despite having already committed other acts of molestation. In Emilia-Romagna it turns out that there was an organization of doctors also extended to a national level that was responsible for allowing migrants who were to be locked up in a repatriation center to circulate and one of the beneficiaries of such do-goodism molested not one, but seven women.
Security, ecological transition and waiting for the verdict of the polls
It’s not over: the Modena attacker, the one who drove his car into the crowd and who some on the left painted as a young man discriminated against and a victim of healthcare cuts, as well as having been radicalized and therefore having killed and injured innocent people in the name of Islam, had been helped with a scholarship from the Emilia-Romagna Region.
Now, faced with this, what do you want an average citizen to think? That we have done everything wrong and that to avoid ending up like other countries we need to make a change.
So, do you think that those who have always defended hospitality, those who support integration and those who have allowed landings to continue on our coasts and Italy to fill up with illegal immigrants will vote? Obviously he will focus on those who oppose the invasion and promise to bring back law and order. Do you believe that when it comes to choosing, Italians will reward those who, with their crazy decisions (no to nuclear power, no to renewables at home, no more combustion engines, stop public works) have increased energy costs and banned, in historic centres, the cars of those who cannot afford the latest electric model? For me the answer is obvious. It is obvious that Italians will focus on parties that promise to change and improve their conditions. This is why I can’t wait for us to go back to the polls. And not just because I expect the success of united center-rightbut also because I want to enjoy the face of all those who have done false papers to bring the left back to power.
Think what fun and imagine how many Maalox tablets they would have to swallow if then at Quirinale someone from the right should go instead of the usual left-wing leader.
