Coal, solidarity and baseball bats

Don't just stand there stupidly, but get involved: Sculpture of two idle gentlemen in Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt

The issue of work plays a special role in this year's election campaigns. On the one hand, it's about how rising living costs are to be paid for from stagnating wages. On the other hand, the right-wing extremist AfD also wants to transform the labor market through ethnic cleansing. The blatant lie is: If foreign workers leave the country, there will be work and prosperity for Germans. This is of course absurd. And if you take a closer look at the state of Saxony-Anhalt, it becomes even more absurd. There, 43.8 percent of voters ticked the blue fascists. Maybe because they believe the stupid lie about prosperity. In fact, Saxony-Anhalt residents are not statistically among the highest earners in the country and they generally don't have much to pass on.

Saxony-Anhalt is desolate and sparsely populated and contributes just 1.8 percent of Germany's economic output. The country therefore benefits particularly strongly from the state financial equalization and will receive a total of 2.95 billion euros from the current EU budget for 2021 to 2027.

We are looking for nurses, engineers and also agricultural assistants. These are jobs that the Nazi idiots can't or don't want to do.

With an average age of 48.3 years, Saxony-Anhalt is also the oldest German federal state. And its population is shrinking the fastest. The country once played a central role as the (chemical) industrial heart of the GDR. After the trust had sold off everything it could, there was almost nothing left. For over twenty years, young and well-educated people have been leaving the region as quickly as they can and never coming back.

That's why the labor shortage can't be solved with the local Nazi idiots. With around eight percent unemployment, there are over 14,000 unfilled positions at the same time. We are looking for nurses, engineers and also agricultural assistants. These are jobs that the Nazi idiots can't or don't want to do. The AfD, which was initially market-liberal, has now reached the extreme right-wing fringe of ethnic stupidity ideologically - and is therefore successful, at least in Saxony-Anhalt.

Anyone who had hoped that this piece of earth could simply be given away to Donald Trump instead of Greenland was unfortunately mistaken. Who wants such an old, bankrupt vulture?

And what would then happen to those who still vigorously oppose the right? What the stable democratic people in Halle or Magdeburg now need above all is coal, solidarity and baseball bats.