"Close to the Czech border, south-east of Dresden, around the Elbe valley, lies one of Germany’s prettiest though clunkiest-titled electoral districts, a constituency called Saxon Switzerland Eastern Ore Mountains (soe). Its majestic sandstone peaks, verdant trails, beautiful medieval cities and villages have been memorialised by German romantics such as Caspar David Friedrich, a 19th-century painter. Hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to the district every year. Unemployment and crime are low. The population is almost entirely ethnic German.
On the face of it, life is dandy in Saxon Switzerland, but at the last federal election in 2017 the populist-right afd scored its best result there, with 35.5% of the Zweitstimmen, the second votes, which determine the overall proportion of seats that each party holds in the Bundestag. (...) He says his party is popular in SOE because Saxons are conservative—and are anxious about their Heimat, which means “home” but also conveys a sense of tradition and place. This angst has been played on by the AfD. "
Why should the Germans of the Saxon Switzerland Eastern Ore Mountains sacrifice their ethnocultural identity, homogeneity and harmony? Just to satisfy those who, hating it, want to stir up the mass settlement of immigrants there?
The Economist intends to make this a problem. It wants these Germans to undergo the same multicultural and multiracial corrosion of their identity that other Germans seem to resign themselves to.
The attitude that the Economist wants to convey as irrational and negative feelings of anxiety and distress is, on the contrary, of a legitimate and logical will to secure a future.
Trying to secure a future for their identity is the right and duty of Germans. Of all Europeans.
Although this, as it turns out, infuriates some. Even more so if this is expressed in votes in the AfD. To whom we wish the best.
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