Who is driving Germany's far-right poll surge?
It&#x27;s not just migration. 
Many Germans I know are just not happy with the government. 
And have not been for a while.
People feel like their lives are worse, they can&#x27;t afford apartments or houses and feel like their wealth is slowly melting away. 
They pay more and more taxes but feel the service they get in return is worse and worse. Cities are not kept clean, infrastructure from small too large is breaking apart.
On the other hand an expensive cluster fuck of a public broadcasting system is kept alive where recent scandals made it look like they are dishonest and try to teach moral lessons instead of neutrally informing the people. 
Health care got worse, many doctors just not taking new patients and people having to wait for specialist appointments for months.<p>People that earn more are also desperate, because they usually live in larger cities where they cannot afford apartments or houses anymore.
Also retirement gets worse and worse every year. Why should someone work 45+ years in a low wage job only to then the same money as someone who always worked?<p>All this shines a particularly bad light on the fact that no politician takes the blame anymore. 
There are scandals, people do a bad job...and then they end up leading the commission in Europe or some other large state agency (looking at you vdL and Nahles). They do not face any consequences anymore.<p>The people have the subconscious feeling that many things go wrong in Germany and the country needs bigger and radical changes but that those changes will not spawn within the current players. 
Or shorter: whoever they vote for, it&#x27;s always the same stupid faces and swamp.<p>And last but not least I&#x27;d say that for years and years voters for the right wing party have been called fascists and Nazis by the (mentioned above) public media , even if they were just conservatives. They were (maybe rightfully?) judged by who their peers are in those parties.
But this made many people being afraid to vote for those parties. Now they &quot;had enough&quot; and don&#x27;t care about public opinion.<p>In my family there are some examples of definitely not racist people that will vote far right...
And I stopped judging them but started listening to them. And I think all of them are brought back by implementing the right policies.