Hope for change in Germany and the EU? Sahra Wagenknecht announces new political party called "BSW": Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht - Sanity and Justice

[Cosmos]

I can no longer sugarcoat and whitewash the continuous (and often significant) red flags Wagenknecht and the BSW are producing on a continuous basis. On the other hand, I haven’t really credited and praised the rather serious guts of the AFD and many politicians in that party, including the leader Alice Weidel, that have proven to stand up for the right things and not bending their positions against enormous pressures of the quite literal fascist and violent German mainstream. Consistently, for years now. I also have to admit that I sort of ignored and didn’t really follow what the AFD is saying and doing in great detail over the years, even though I knew that they often made sense and voiced many important things consistently over the years. And that includes points such as Putin making rather concrete statements about the AFD and how they are treated.

So now I’m starting to read the election campaign of the AFD for the upcoming election in a month, and so far I’m pretty impressed with what they claim they want to do:

https://www.bundestagswahl-bw.de/fileadmin/bundestagswahl-bw/2025/Wahlprogramme/AfD_Leitantrag-Bundestagswahlprogramm-2025.pdf

And for the first time, I have just watched longer portions of what politicians in the AFD have to say, and especially Weidel herself. Here is what Alice had to say a couple of days ago in Hamburg, where loud and violent protestors and thugs were surrounding the building and city, encouraged and sanctioned by the mainstream:

I can't disagree with anything she is saying and have to praise her guts, and I took a special notice how she emphasized the horrors of what happened during Covid in clear words at the end and promised to investigate it and even trail those responsible. So the only thing left where I have some reservations with the AFD is their stands on Israel/Palestine, but hope they will come at least a bit around there. Also interesting is that Alice likes to read a lot, takes cold showers in the morning and avoids the many political/high society meetups politicians in Berlin like to go to "in their free time" where they do "small talk" and such. Instead, she likes to focus on her job as a politician.

So I will vote for the AFD and hope as many Germans as possible will do so as well. It might be our last chance.

 

[thorbiorn]

And for the first time, I have just watched longer portions of what politicians in the AFD have to say, and especially Weidel herself.

At this moment in the video 1:05:04, she refers to an Italien writer, but does not give the name. She might have read the following article:
The coup from above and The Decline of Civilization

by Ullrich Mies and Felix Feistel
Tue, Feb 14, 2023 3:13AM
Ignazio Silone (14), an important theorist of Italian fascism is reported to have said: "When fascism returns, it will not say: 'I am fascism' No, it will say: 'I am anti-fascism'." And I say: we are on the threshold of an internationalized super-fascism, which merely uses new, more perfidious and, above all, more complex methods than the traditional one.
The traditional one was based on nationalist-racist-ethnic ideologemes and came to power through the terror of street and hall battle shock troops of fascist militias.
The coup from above
Democracy is abolished, an "elitist" caste completely disconnected from the needs of the people marches towards a centralized superstate.
by Ullrich Mies
[This article posted on 2/2/2023 is translated from the German on the Internet,

I could not find all of the German original, but as to the content, Ignazio Silone was a former Italien Communist, the author of a famous novel Fontamara, married to Darina Laracy, an Irish author, see also her obituary. There does not seem to be any hard proof that Silone actually said it, see the talk page or his Wiki, where:

The closest to this quote though is a quote by Italian screenwriter, novelist, journalist and drama critic Ennio Flaiano: "In Italy there are two types of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists" (this one confirmed, see Ennio Flaiano on it.wikipedia.org), in Italian language:

In Italia i fascisti si dividono in due categorie: i fascisti e gli antifascisti.

Weidel is a very skilled speaker. When I listened to the first minutes of her speech, I wondered if she has a personal dilemma, because what she promotes could lead to conflict, even loss of life, and she does not wish that, but alternatively she sees no alternative to doing what she think is right to do. People can be courageous because they dare something dangerous, but in this case the daring act is trying to stand up for quite a lot of truth in the face of vehement antagonism and unfair games from a lying opposition. That is heroic.
You mentioned AfD and Palestine, I don't think they can say much, even if they wanted to. It may come later.
For some other mentions of Weidel, see this search result.

The article I linked to lays out how sold out much of the German establishment is to the Globalists, if Weidel read it would she agree?

 

[Breo]

I can no longer sugarcoat and whitewash the continuous (and often significant) red flags Wagenknecht and the BSW are producing on a continuous basis. On the other hand, I haven’t really credited and praised the rather serious guts of the AFD and many politicians in that party, including the leader Alice Weidel, that have proven to stand up for the right things and not bending their positions against enormous pressures of the quite literal fascist and violent German mainstream. Consistently, for years now. I also have to admit that I sort of ignored and didn’t really follow what the AFD is saying and doing in great detail over the years, even though I knew that they often made sense and voiced many important things consistently over the years. And that includes points such as Putin making rather concrete statements about the AFD and how they are treated.

So now I’m starting to read the election campaign of the AFD for the upcoming election in a month, and so far I’m pretty impressed with what they claim they want to do:

https://www.bundestagswahl-bw.de/fileadmin/bundestagswahl-bw/2025/Wahlprogramme/AfD_Leitantrag-Bundestagswahlprogramm-2025.pdf

And for the first time, I have just watched longer portions of what politicians in the AFD have to say, and especially Weidel herself. Here is what Alice had to say a couple of days ago in Hamburg, where loud and violent protestors and thugs were surrounding the building and city, encouraged and sanctioned by the mainstream:

I can't disagree with anything she is saying and have to praise her guts, and I took a special notice how she emphasized the horrors of what happened during Covid in clear words at the end and promised to investigate it and even trail those responsible. So the only thing left where I have some reservations with the AFD is their stands on Israel/Palestine, but hope they will come at least a bit around there. Also interesting is that Alice likes to read a lot, takes cold showers in the morning and avoids the many political/high society meetups politicians in Berlin like to go to "in their free time" where they do "small talk" and such. Instead, she likes to focus on her job as a politician.

So I will vote for the AFD and hope as many Germans as possible will do so as well. It might be our last chance.

Very interesting, what you write on Wagenknecht, Alice Weidel and AfD. Whenever, I listened to Alice Weidel, my impression was that she comes across as an ethically motivated politician. I find that a very rare "species" among politicians. I can very well understand that you decided to vote for AfD, and hopefully a lot of other Germans will do too.

Weidel is a very skilled speaker. When I listened to the first minutes of her speech, I wondered if she has a personal dilemma, because what she promotes could lead to conflict, even loss of life, and she does not wish that, but alternatively she sees no alternative to doing what she think is right to do. People can be courageous because they dare something dangerous, but in this case the daring act is trying to stand up for quite a lot of truth in the face of vehement antagonism and unfair games from a lying opposition. That is heroic.
You mentioned AfD and Palestine, I don't think they can say much, even if they wanted to. It may come later.

Indeed, Weidel is very skilled speaker, maybe its even a natural talent of hers. I too find her being very couragious, especially for a politician. To tackle that many hot topics in such a straightforward way, so true, thats heroic. I hope she will be protected well. Concerning AfD and the Middle East, as you say, it might be that they have to strategically hold back. Hard to estimate. We have to wait and see.

 

[Cosmos]

[…]Another interesting point is that Wagenknecht (the head and founder of BSW) was apparently by far the most frequently interviewed guest on German mainstream news/TV over the last months. It is also interesting to observe how German mainstream radio sometimes reports about BSW, seemingly not in much bad light. But sometimes, in a bad light.[…]

Besides the many red flags that Wagenknecht and her party BSW have already committed, the above fact (which was mentioned by the mainstream itself) is another point that makes me wonder if she and her party are indeed (as not only AFD members have suggested) a deliberate effort by the PTB to undermine the AFD movement? Or more generally speaking, so that the old structure can continue as before? There is also the possibility that Wagenkecht isn’t consciously aware that she and the party are manipulated for such a purposes.