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The key question has to be: why doesn’t @ElonMusk’s support for the AfD move the needle at all in Germany? Before his endorsement, the AfD was polling at 21.5%. Now, almost three weeks later, the party has even slightly dropped to 21% in polls. I’m genuinely wondering why the AfD’s numbers have declined after Musk’s high-profile backing, something very few people can understand. With an estimated 10 million German followers on @X, Musk should wield massive influence. Considering that in German elections, around 46 million votes are cast, one million votes would account for approximately 2.3% of the total. If Musk could sway just half of his 10 million German followers to support the AfD, that would translate into five million new votes, or an additional 11.5% in the polls. Yet, so far, nothing—Musk hasn’t brought the AfD a single percentage point. The last Insa poll for BILD before Musk’s endorsement was conducted on January 6, showing the AfD at 21.5%. On January 9, Musk backed the AfD with his now-famous statement, “Only the AfD can save Germany.” But by January 25, the latest Insa poll for BILD showed the AfD slightly down to 21%. So why hasn’t Musk’s magic—so instrumental in helping Trump win in the U.S.—worked in Germany? It seems Germans might be less visionary, more focused on immediate concerns like high food and energy prices. Musk’s grand “I will save the world” approach may seem too over-the-top and insufficiently practical for Germans who are hard to inspire, perhaps a result of generations being taught collective guilt over their history. This has left them resistant to ideas outside the established center-left Merkel-Scholz universe, where even holding the German flag on stage caused Angela Merkel to disdainfully snatch it away from a party colleague. And this was the flag of her own country. This kind of self-suppression has not only eradicated national pride in Germany but has also deeply indoctrinated its people. Independent thinking, as well as the desire for change, has become alien to Germans—except for state-sanctioned opposition against “the right,” climate change, or other officially approved causes. In today’s Germany, national pride is seen as dangerous, as generations have been taught in schools, on TV, and by leftist media to be ashamed of their own heritage. This has resulted in a nation largely disconnected from its identity and history. The reckoning of WWII and the Holocaust has robbed them of the ability to look beyond their history, let alone imagine a new future. After reunification in 1990, the victors of WWII ensured that Germany was forced into a straitjacket. They would only approve reunification under the condition that Germany relinquish much of its sovereignty. This led to the creation of the EU in 1993, which transferred significant national powers to the EU, and the introduction of the euro currency in 1999, which replaced Germany’s strong Deutsche Mark. This context explains why Germans have been so submissive for decades and remain blind to alternatives on the political right. The intellectual stagnation is especially true for urban voters, particularly the pseudo-educated left-liberal bourgeoisie, who remain trapped in the “antifascist” post-war mentality. Their sole political identity has been to oppose anything perceived as “right-wing,” regardless of whether it makes sense. Even a powerful figure like Musk and his X powerhouse army seem to lack the tools to break through this ideological barrier. His usually sharp rhetorical sword has so far proven ineffective against the deeply ingrained German state doctrine and identity suppression. Over the last few weeks, Musk hasn’t been able to move the needle for the AfD at all. Perhaps the weight of Germany’s historical guilt is Musk’s kryptonite, rendering even him powerless against the collective self-castration of German national consciousness. With elections just four weeks away, time is running out.

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