Nach der Bundestagswahl steigen die Werte der AfD weiter. Nun überholt die Partei zum zweiten Mal bei einer Erhebung CDU/CSU. Und das Wählerpotenzial scheint noch größer zu sein.
The effects of the collapse are not evenly distributed. While many working class people experience significant effects personally, nothing has really changed for the policy makers. This creates a lag between problems occurring and the leadership becoming aware of them. Thus things have to degrade quite significantly before people in power fully understand the severity of the problem. Meanwhile, and reversing current trends requires honestly acknowledging root causes of the problems in order to take corrective action. However, existing political climate precludes this from happening. Instead, it favors opportunists who promise quick and easy solutions to people.
I’d say that the politicians, at least the ones higher up, are captured by the people with the money, who make sure to keep them compliant by giving them bribes (both legal and illegal), as well as cushy jobs once their time in politics is over. It’s not a failure of the system, it’s capitalism working as intended.
This is true at least for the major parties like CDU and SPD in Germany. The Greens too these days, there’s very little conviction left in them. FDP is the only party that would change nothing if the bribery stopped, they are true sickos and in it for the love of the game. but with most of them, I really believe they are just cynically accepting that changing anything would be hard, while taking the money is so so very easy.
The effects of the collapse are not evenly distributed. While many working class people experience significant effects personally, nothing has really changed for the policy makers. This creates a lag between problems occurring and the leadership becoming aware of them. Thus things have to degrade quite significantly before people in power fully understand the severity of the problem. Meanwhile, and reversing current trends requires honestly acknowledging root causes of the problems in order to take corrective action. However, existing political climate precludes this from happening. Instead, it favors opportunists who promise quick and easy solutions to people.
I’d say that the politicians, at least the ones higher up, are captured by the people with the money, who make sure to keep them compliant by giving them bribes (both legal and illegal), as well as cushy jobs once their time in politics is over. It’s not a failure of the system, it’s capitalism working as intended.
This is true at least for the major parties like CDU and SPD in Germany. The Greens too these days, there’s very little conviction left in them. FDP is the only party that would change nothing if the bribery stopped, they are true sickos and in it for the love of the game. but with most of them, I really believe they are just cynically accepting that changing anything would be hard, while taking the money is so so very easy.
Exactly, Germany is a capitalist country, and as such the government represents primarily the interests of the capital owning class.