This is a development that should garner some concern. Echoes of the Weimar Republic. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3524176
It's disgusting. I find it worrisome to a certain extent that these extremists get so many votes. It seems like the problem is more present in East Germany, where people have only been free from dictatorship for 15 years now...after basically almost 60 years under dictators (first the Nazis, then the Communists). I'm ashamed that so many of these idiots from my own country voted for these nationalists. The percentage of votes the right-wing parties got is smaller than, e.g., in France, but still, it is wrong. I think it is a problem with the political education. People have high demands on the government to provide everything for them, as if it was self-explanatory that the government "owes them", and when they feel they are not getting enough (for nothing), they start screaming and protesting and voting for these extremist parties. I hope that these extremist assholes will disqualify themselves once people realize what they stand for and that they will never get as many votes again as they did in these two regional parliaments last weekend.