Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Why Germany’s AfD is in Decline" video.

  1. It's needed as well to bring in fresh blood and new ideas, especially when existing parties get stall by promising a lot but never really delivering. The problem in the US is how the system is set up, it makes it almost impossible for new parties to gain any real power, the system is set up in such a way that allows the two main parties, the Democrats and Republican Party to dominant with a slim to zero chance of third party taking them on, in a sense, it is kinda a weak democracy as it doesn't allow fresh blood, and I suspect a lot of the issue the US faces is because voters have very little in the way of choice, you've got the Democrats, which are right wing and then you've got the Republicans which are far right, and with that, we see a seesaw swing from one party to the other every 4 or 8 years with little in the way of change, in some sense, Americans must feel powerless to get any major changes done because the system doesn't listen to the voters unless there's a mass protest to force them to listen. The UK isn't much better as systems go, it's mostly a two party system, but there is an opening for other parties, it's just that it's made difficult by the system to allow them to gain any real power, other European countries do far better than both the US and UK by allowing a lot more voices to be heard, that allows more real change in the system. Basically, you get a sense that in the US with the Democrats and Republican Party and in the UK with the Conservative and Labour Party, not really much change whoever you vote for and it all feels like a show when the elections come up with lots of promises, low taxes, higher spending but ultimately, not much change and lots of lies after the election, the cycle continues with every election.
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  2. Sometimes true, but radical parties rarely do good unless the population at large become more radicalised, which is unlikely. A lot of it with popularise parties is mostly a protest vote because people are not happy with how the established parties are dealing with things, the problem for the popularise movement, that isn't any real power for them, because chances are, if they pushed some of their radical agendas, they would become very unpopular with the majority of the population, hence why a lot of these radical parties when getting close to power or in power, end up toning things down to appeal to a lot more people, in a sense, they become far more moderate and not a threat, apart from them being a threat to the established parties, we are seeing this across Europe and that's blurring the lines on which are radical and which are moderate.
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