Scratches, when he crunches, that's my eyes.

Hello everyone. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Itas.

This is Tuesday the 2nd of December 2025.

I'm your host Stelios and I'm joined today by Josh and Dan.

Hello, traps.

And we're going to discuss the European establishment's panic about the rise of the AFD, what this shows about Western politics,

and how to fix Germany and Europe, and the West. And I think it's fairly easy. It's very

minimalistic. I'm going to give you some suggestions because I don't like always whining all the

time without giving practical solutions. I want practical solutions.

Is it press the Fix Everything button?

No, it's a bit more complicated than that, but not very complicated.

Right, so we're going to start with Germany.

We are going to talk about the AFD and what is happening with it,

and then use this as a springboard for discussion about

European politics and Western politics, and discuss about some very worrying trends displayed

in Western politics, and especially how the establishment is trying to guide the narrative and guide people's attention towards particular matters

and try to obfuscate the actual issues.

So I'm going to start talking about the AFD and everyone is panicking about its rise.

And let me show you in the federal elections of 2021, they scored 10.2%.

It's not bad, but it's still not enough necessarily to be the dominant force in politics,

certainly with all of those other parties.

And of course, it's worth mentioning if you're from outside of Europe, lots of continental European countries have more representative systems

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