It's getting uglier by the day

[abaris]

I don't read German.  So I ask for information from Alex and Abaris and anyone else actually in Germany and Austria.  How bad is the right wing backlash? Do they have anything approaching a majority? Is there violence?  Are there legitimate concerns about muslim immigrants : not enough houseing, crime, not enoughnwork, too much processing delay.

Because the real problem I see from here is that ambitious young men in enforced idleness,  are always dangerous no matter what their nationality or religion.  Letting people in but not letting them work is like stockpiling dynamite in a gasoline refinery.

As I said, attacks by right wing extremists have risen by some 100 percent only this last year. I haven't got the exact numbers, but I seem to remember, it's about 200, 250 percent. Also, as I said in the OP, these attacks range from arson over property damage to inflicting bodily harm.

As for majorities - it's a very real possibility. Our recent presidential elections showed as much. The right winger, a German nationalist and chemtrail conspiracy nut on the side, managed to get nearly 50 percent of the votes. The right wing populist Freedom party, with ties to the Front National, Geert Wilder's party and the German AFD, has something like 30 percent of the votes, according to recent polls. Germany fairs just a little bit better, but the rightwing AFD stands a very good chance of making it into the Bundestag in the next election. The difference being that no other party would form a coalition with them. That's different here. The Conservatives already have a track record of forming a coalition with the extreme right. Between the years 2000 and 2006, years that still keep the courts busy, since there was such an amount of corruption. A former minister of interior affairs already serves a jail sentence. Not because of what he did when he was in office, although the courts investigated these years too, but found too little hard evidence to indict, but because of what he did later, when he was head of the Austrian Conservative delegation at the EU.

There is no real danger. The majority of crimes are either commited by Austrians, mostly murder suicides within families. Property crime on the other hand is firmly in the hand of international gangs from Poland, Hungary or the Balkans. I'm not even sure if I've seen a single refugee. Hard to say, since there are quite a lot foreigners roaming the streets. They don't wear a label sying refugee, after all.

It's fear mongering, fishing in the pond of the disenfranchised. These people, in their vast majority, believe the narrative and don't do the reality check. They're not all Nazis, that's for sure, but they're all looking for easy solutions for their own misery.