Being new to German politics I was shocked how obvious it was that Merz was not someone working for the betterment of Germans but for political power - and he is still successful in his party.
I also don’t understand why the country has fallen into this belief that the squabbling of the last coalition has caused AFD to be successful. I think it’s incredibly clear that the FDP sabotaged the coalition from the start - people should be calling for the removal of the FDP at the federal level for what they did (and thankfully they were punished in this last election). But why we didn’t go back to giving progressives more power and another chance I don’t understand - it was the one conservative party that undermined them. Instead we gave more power to conservatives who are the real cause for the rise of the AFD.
The only cure to the AFD is to shrink wealth I equality and a continued push for pro-worker progressive policies. Improve the trains, improve our green energy, regulate our businesses so they have higher quality bars to reach, protect the workers, tax the ultra wealthy, tax landlords out of existence so a working German can afford their flat or their home, support farmers, hold media accountable for misinformation, and protect us from foreign interference.
We need more actions that Die Linke would endorse and less actions that the CDU would, because fundamentally the CDU are pro-corporation and anti-worker and that’s the heart of the rise of fascism - a decline in living standards brought on by corrupt politicians bleeding the public coffers for the betterment of their corporate friends.
And we just witnessed this, they paid for corporate contracts with debt when they could have paid for it with increased taxes on the ultra-wealthy.
Because when it’s about improving anything Germany doesn’t have parties to chose from.
We have nazis sponsored by Russia, conservatives that would love to basically do mostly the same as the nazis while calling it traditional, liberals that are not liberal at all and will even betray their beloved market liberalism if that’s what their donors want, social democrats that are constantly betraying all social ideas and only interesting in governing at any cost, (nowadays two) left parties that can’t be trusted with anything above local policies as they are all supporting Russian imperialism to a certain degree.
Which leaves exactly one party that everyone and their grandma has declared as their main enemy and that is drowned in propaganda 24/7, 365 days a year until it’s “common sense” that they are insane and want to destroy the country.
Years of disinformation campaigns online and from red letter media that targeted the progressive parties. Where the green party was the only one left could be considered progressive.
The left dismantled itself by supporting russia loving Wagenknecht for way too long, and not distancing from her position strong enough.
SPD, the supposed workers party has shown to not care about workers anymore.
The FDP has zero seats in the new Bundestag, thankfully. So they did get punished for that. Sadly, people now associate the Greens and SPD with the failure caused by the FDP, especially because many popular media (like the newspaper BILD) often wrote pieces against the Greens, making them responsible for a hallucinated downfall of Germany.
Right! They got punished by the voters but they haven’t received the social stain that should follow them for a decade. They’ll be back next election and I fear not enough people will remember what they did. That’s not enough punishment for what they did.
The FDP gets votes from a rich minority whose interest they serve, a few wanna be rich people, a few delusional liberals who think the FDP is pro civil liberties, and a fresh crop of young people brought in by marketing campaigns.
The FDP is in an eternal 0 to 5%, back to 0, back to 10%… cycle
Being new to German politics I was shocked how obvious it was that Merz was not someone working for the betterment of Germans but for political power - and he is still successful in his party.
I also don’t understand why the country has fallen into this belief that the squabbling of the last coalition has caused AFD to be successful. I think it’s incredibly clear that the FDP sabotaged the coalition from the start - people should be calling for the removal of the FDP at the federal level for what they did (and thankfully they were punished in this last election). But why we didn’t go back to giving progressives more power and another chance I don’t understand - it was the one conservative party that undermined them. Instead we gave more power to conservatives who are the real cause for the rise of the AFD.
The only cure to the AFD is to shrink wealth I equality and a continued push for pro-worker progressive policies. Improve the trains, improve our green energy, regulate our businesses so they have higher quality bars to reach, protect the workers, tax the ultra wealthy, tax landlords out of existence so a working German can afford their flat or their home, support farmers, hold media accountable for misinformation, and protect us from foreign interference.
We need more actions that Die Linke would endorse and less actions that the CDU would, because fundamentally the CDU are pro-corporation and anti-worker and that’s the heart of the rise of fascism - a decline in living standards brought on by corrupt politicians bleeding the public coffers for the betterment of their corporate friends.
And we just witnessed this, they paid for corporate contracts with debt when they could have paid for it with increased taxes on the ultra-wealthy.
Because when it’s about improving anything Germany doesn’t have parties to chose from.
We have nazis sponsored by Russia, conservatives that would love to basically do mostly the same as the nazis while calling it traditional, liberals that are not liberal at all and will even betray their beloved market liberalism if that’s what their donors want, social democrats that are constantly betraying all social ideas and only interesting in governing at any cost, (nowadays two) left parties that can’t be trusted with anything above local policies as they are all supporting Russian imperialism to a certain degree.
Which leaves exactly one party that everyone and their grandma has declared as their main enemy and that is drowned in propaganda 24/7, 365 days a year until it’s “common sense” that they are insane and want to destroy the country.
Years of disinformation campaigns online and from red letter media that targeted the progressive parties. Where the green party was the only one left could be considered progressive.
The left dismantled itself by supporting russia loving Wagenknecht for way too long, and not distancing from her position strong enough.
SPD, the supposed workers party has shown to not care about workers anymore.
The FDP has zero seats in the new Bundestag, thankfully. So they did get punished for that. Sadly, people now associate the Greens and SPD with the failure caused by the FDP, especially because many popular media (like the newspaper BILD) often wrote pieces against the Greens, making them responsible for a hallucinated downfall of Germany.
Right! They got punished by the voters but they haven’t received the social stain that should follow them for a decade. They’ll be back next election and I fear not enough people will remember what they did. That’s not enough punishment for what they did.
The FDP gets votes from a rich minority whose interest they serve, a few wanna be rich people, a few delusional liberals who think the FDP is pro civil liberties, and a fresh crop of young people brought in by marketing campaigns.
The FDP is in an eternal 0 to 5%, back to 0, back to 10%… cycle