Merz really, really did a large scale election campaign fraud: Campaigned on a platform of "no new debts, no new taxes", promised a lot and, well, they are now taking on new large scale debts, are talking about increasing taxes and abolishing holidays while moving to the right. Yeah, it's worse.
Who would've known (besides those who know some basics about politics)?
I've got it! Let's elect another neoliberal/conservative. That'll cure what ails ya!
Anyone who is surprised by this should have their head examined.
Yes many the guys who said the old traffic light coalition failed, succeed in a larger fail. The CxU lobbyists in the cabinet go from clusterfuck to clusterfuck daily. The try a kafkaesk German version of MAGA. You don't want to hear more about this.
The 37% that experienced no change will not feel the pain for several years as these policies take time to hollow out the country.
The CDU have implemented policies and taken actions that will result in a lower quality of life for the people of Germany. We must tax billionaires out of existence and protect our countries people and assets. 100 millionaires should not exist, and people like Merz should not be insulated from the pain and suffering they are all too willing to inflict on others.
Neoliberal «moderates» paving the road to the fascist right again. Happened in the US. Next up is UK, France, Germany, maybe Canada... Meanwhile, the Left everywhere, the only actual alternative, is derided as «delusional».
A good part of the left is delusional. The left worldwide largely forgot about its core issue, wealth and income distribution, in favour of ridiculous and highly divisive identity politics, throwing the working class, its former core clientele, to the fascists.
Unless the left finally realise that it's a class war, not a culture war, they'll only ever be able to appeal to a small privileged elite dwelling in the social sciences faculties of institutes of higher education that contents itself in cosplaying as the proletariat in their spare time.
On top of that, the German Left also is full of Putin bootlickers and hopelessly naive "pacifists" who confuse pacifism with passive submission to force.
While I agree the German left has too many Putin fans and vulgar pacifists. Your point on identity politics is a pretty reactionary point. Left politics means social justice. Class reductionism with social conservativism is not leftist politics. This is why you were compared to Wagenknecht in the past.
Had to look it up. Cui bono? One party seems to be played without understanding how they are used and suppressed.
Class reductionism is disparagingly used to describe theoretical and political frameworks that prioritize the significance of class relations over all other societal hierarchies. The term is used to criticize theories, policies or strategies that neglect to directly address racism, sexism or other social oppressions in favor of broad economic policies that are targeted at addressing the working class as a whole. Critics of class reductionism claim that this approach sidelines people, particularly working-class people, who want to take up the fight against other oppressions more directly, and fragments political movements on the Left as a consequence.[2] Class reductionism has been described as being opposed to identity politics and postmodernism.[3] The term has also been used to describe Marxist theory as a whole.
Basically class reductionism is used to promote the idea that equality of equity/elimination of class will solve all social inequality, but it is most often used against minorities such as queer people. You can't have social justice while ignoring the discrimination of minorities. It also goes for focussing on "identity politics" without fighting inequality of equity. You need to fight for all who are disadvantaged and not just some.
I don't understand what you mean with equality of equity.
It'a a losing strategy to fight with limited resources every possible battle. Targets have to be prioritised. That the demand to fight each battle at the same time is even considered speaks for the deep influence of the elite on the left discourse.
Why can't the class war be fought first? Shouldn't that resolve all other inequalities? Who would suppress queer people under communism?
Limited resources is a shitty excuse to not fight racism, sexism and queerphobia.
There is that Wikipedia page for this debate. This is a big debate. Arguments don't seem to lead to a result or a result would have been mentioned. I only know that it's bad strategy to spread resources thin. If winning is not important then an endless series of skirmishes that considers all topics equally is an option.
I would still love to know
Why can’t the class war be fought first? Shouldn’t that resolve all other inequalities? Who would suppress queer people under communism?
Again. What hinders you from fighting for queer rights and an end to class inequality simultaneously? The resources are there. If you don't think it is possible, then you have no desire to end real existing discrimination such as the ones I face as a queer person who has an ethnically diverse family.
I experience plenty of socialists who fight for both and make the fight intersectional. Why do you not want that?
Where do you experience discrimination? Who controls the situation? Do you think the discrimination would continue under communism?
E.g. it would be a waste of resources to fight for equal opportunities in work environments because a communist society would make that a requirement.
As if any "real existing socialist" countries are beacons of queer rights. And queer people don't automatically don't get discriminated when the capitalist class doesn't exist. There are plenty of socialists and communists out there who actively call queer politics a product of capitalism.
Why do you think class equality, which communists are still is far as ever are from achieving, automatically creates equality for queer people and defeats queerphobia? As far as we could know, queer people could be labelled as counterrevolutionary as they have in the past.
who actively call queer politics a product of capitalism.
That's disheartening. Are there reasons? E.g. if most queer people demand to fight all battles and not class war first then that is to be expected.
Why do you think class equality automatically creates equality for queer people
Because equality is the consensus among left politics. Who should establish inequality in a classless society?
I think we are past the point where people on the left would see queer people as enemies. Which arguments were used in the past?
Thank you for this in-depth analysis (/s, just to be safe. The article consists of three sentences and doesn't even say who made the polling.)
You have to scroll down past the birth-rate and migrant article to get to the main body (I don't know why).
Third of German voters say situation is worse since Merz took power
Chancellor Friedrich Merz has entered the summer break with lukewarm public support, a new YouGov poll for German news agency DPA shows.
This is scary. The AfD might come to power.
So 68% are satisfied- that's quite ok in today's political climate 🙃
That link brings me to an article called
Germany updates: Merz hails 'new chapter' in German-UK ties
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