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I get your pessimism and i think it's wiser to have an attitude like that than trying to brush these sentiments under the rug the way many Germans do, but that's just too much. Here are some concrete poll numbers.
Now sure - you completely have a point that poll numbers are not that relevant if people will vote for a party that wants to do away with these rights. To an extent that is the case in Poland as well, even though unlike in Germany abortion in Poland is a major, very current issue that should have already been amended, as idiotic as Germany's current law already is (on that i fully agree and don't want to downplay it). And moreover, AfD is still mostly as strong as it is because of non-European migration. I do not find it excusable for anyone to support them regardless of how liberal otherwise they are (and i doubt there are many such people), but it's still a major factor. While in Poland, far right is already this strong without basically any Muslims in the country, minimum non-European migration and almost no parties that want anything of the sort. If Poland had a large population of Muslim/brown immigrants, i could see a coalition of Konfederacja and Gregorz Braun as a result. Or a genocide, or something of the sort.
Also, in Poland you literally have morality police of young teenagers (these same people see Muslims as enemies, hilarious!) and vigilantes patrolling the border defending their holy soil from evil brown people Germany is planting on it. As shitty and as declining Germany is in this regard, it has a long way to go down to this. Though given your flair, i really do sympathise with your feelings, lol.
On that note: honestly i think Germany's easiest and quickest fix currently available would be to have East go its own way. Ideally West would keep Berlin and Leipzig as enclaves as these are only places with large concentrations of decent people there left. I would absolutely love to see what East would look (fail) like on its own and see West unburdened from it, even though unfortunately most Germans will never agree with me on this. Including the hypocrite crybabies in the East that would start crying as soon as you offered them this.
And i can figure the attitudes that are towards them. I'm from Croatia and we also have Nepalese and Filipinos. The discourse of average person towards them is often really disgusting. I know Germans are not much better, but still. And overall the numbers are still tiny and these people commit basically 0 crime and cause basically zero problems of any kind, while being increasingly necessary given the woeful demographics.
You have a good point and it would not solve the problem, but it would undeniably at least ease it a bit. Next year, i do not see how will CDU not break the firewall in Sachsen Anhalt, or AfD will get enough to just pair up with BSW (which is not coincidentally straight up a product of the east) and we'll get our first lovely AfD state government. MV is also looking extremely difficult in terms of excluding the fascists/Kremlin mercenaries. CDU in east is also generally considerably more disgusting than in west, there's a world of difference between someone like Kretschmer and Daniel Günther. But yes, i would not be optimistic for the reasons you mention - just slightly less pessimistic, and if there is something that could show how horrible AfD is, it would be them ruling an independent East.