Wow. Germany has its own Teabaggers...

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,722868,00.html

A new study has revealed that far-right attitudes are deeply rooted in German society. One-third of Germans would send foreigners home if there weren't enough jobs, while one-sixth think Jews have too much influence.

"Germany is in serious danger of being overrun by foreigners." It's a sentence one would expect to find on an election poster for Germany's far-right NPD party. As it happens, it's a view that is held by over one-third of the German population -- a new survey has revealed that 35.6 percent of Germans agree with the statement.

Additionally, more than 30 percent think that "foreigners come to take advantage of the welfare state" and that when jobs are scarce foreigners should be sent "back to their own country." More than one-tenth would like a "Führer" -- the survey deliberately used the German word for "leader" that is associated with Adolf Hitler -- who would govern the country "with a firm hand" for the benefit of all.


These are some of the findings of a new study on right-wing attitudes that was presented on Wednesday in Berlin by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a think tank linked to the center-left Social Democrats. A quarter of Germans agreed with statements that included xenophobic content. "We've detected a rise in decidedly anti-democratic and racist attitudes in 2010," said the researchers, describing the results of their survey of 2,500 randomly selected people.

[oswaldactedalone]

1. They've had this problem for a while

It began in the 1930s. They were called Nazis then. Teabagger is a euphemism for Nazi, American style circa 2010.

[JackRiddler]

2. True. Not really news, but important.

[Odin2005]

3. This is frightening.

:scared:

[jaxx]

4. That is mind chilling.

Do they know what they say?