it’s a shame…
vienna where i’m back to now had had its elections. the so-called freedom party, a rightwing populist party, by the way the follow-up party of a group of NSDAP members after WW II in austria, got a quarter of the votes. they got it by playing with xenophobia. i’m ashamed of my fellow citizens who voted for them. i’m ashamed of the fact that in “the world’s nicest city to live” a quarter of the voters find themselves in an economic, social and educational situation that makes them vote for the radical. and i’m ashamed of those in power who are responsible for that situation and run after the radical in migration and integration issues.
what’s the big difference between these voters whom you don’t dare to call “declassified, asocial idiots” (comic star grissemann in his recent weekly tv programme) and those who supported nazism when my parents were young?