Stoiber claims Red/Green is responsible for the NPD's success - of course their success is certainly not due to the constant right-wing flirtation of the Union parties and the FDP. No, it's absolutely absurd to believe that voters who constantly read verbal attacks on foreigners from the opposition and are repeatedly drilled with how terrible the many immigrants are might eventually vote one level further to the right.
In times when Chancellor Kohl held fiery speeches against foreigners, there were also firebombs against asylum seeker homes.
Of course, unemployment and the general economic situation of these people is a significant factor - but that is not insignificantly determined by the Union-governed states. How many initiatives were blocked in the Bundesrat because they didn't go far enough for the Union parties? I cannot see where the CSU's anti-foreigner agitation and the constant demands for even more welfare cuts by the CDU and FDP are supposed to contain any perspectives that should motivate NPD voters to vote for a different party.
Sorry, but all the major parties can claim the NPD's successes - they botched them together. The naivety of Müntefering is just ridiculous - of course the voters are the cause of the NPD's success. But the major parties lay the groundwork just as much as the rest of society. To claim anything else would mean that daily politics are not part of society and social development - and that is highly absurd.
And sorry, but platitudes like those from our Federal President don't help either - if what happened in Saxony was really a wake-up call, where are the awakened politicians? Are they hiding under the bed in fear now? Where is the factual engagement, where is the categorical rejection - when NPD politicians repeatedly receive sympathetic votes in Saxony? When a minister-president of a certain Hesse writes forewords to ultra-right books? When Union politicians themselves give fiery speeches or support party members who repeatedly make blatantly antisemitic statements?
The loss of reality of some politicians is reaching frightening proportions. People, you are part of society - and your actions determine the direction of society like the actions of no other population group. And as part of society, you are part of the problem.