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- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
The survey by the Forsa polling institute found only 11% of German voters reported being satisfied with the coalition’s work, while 87% were dissatisfied.
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Damn, that’s crazy, but the solution is kind of simple if you really think about it. First, we’re going to give 5 billion to the auto industry.
Don’t forget another billion to the coal industry. Coal is the future! Sweet, sweet coal…
Next up, they need to get some advice from a politician that has better polling numbers, like Trump. /s
Which directly and indirectly employs over a million people.
So just 5.000€ government welfare per Person this time? Bargain!
I know the solution guys, maybe we should take social benefits from everyone, wdyt?
The problem is probably that y’all are being too kind to immigrants, try being crueler to them!
also: work more
Sometimes I wonder if 90% of the population just got 18 and voted for the first time. I mean, what did they expect? They got exactly what they voted for, they are still dissatisfied. That makes no sense in my eyes.
To be fair Merz lied a lot campaigning (shocker, I know) but one of those lies was about taking debt which is extremely unpopular among the uniformed voters who think of debt as a cardinal sin that immediately destroys any country. That‘s why even his boomer voters hate him.
+++ BREAKING +++ Politician lies! +++ BREAKING +++
Yeah I know and the way things are changing in politics this may sound trivial. But there is a story to this. You see usually when politicians lie they make big promises and then simply forget about them and don‘t deliver.
Merz campaigned on the premise of not taking any more debt, saying it is irresponsible. That was pretty much his whole thing. But as soon as the election was through he immediately pushed through more debt with the old government even before he took office. This was unprecedented. The old government dissolved months earlier because they couldn‘t find an agreement on debt. Merz‘ party was in the opposition. They kept saying they would block any attempt to take any debt no matter what. Saying it would ruin the country. Of course it wouldn‘t but after decades of indoctrination their voters firmly believed that any debt is bad debt and will be our ruin.
So yeah this move was a slap in the face for his voters and made him extremely unpopular among conservatives even before he became chancellor.
Funnily enough economists warned exactly this would happen because christ democrats had a huge hole in their budget that could only be filled by taking a loan.
55.1% of the votes were for parties, which are not part of the government(5% hurdle) and the turn out was only 82.5%. So 63% of did not actually vote for the current government. Then a bunch of people just voted conservative, because when they governed the last time Germany was doing well economically. Seriously the Greens took over the ministry for economics and Germany had the biggest drop in real wages since WW2.
Well, buckle up because they have no reason to dissolve the government and will keep running things into the ground. Quite possibly until 2029 when things will get really ugly, I assume.
And they refuse to tax wealth because approval ratings mean nothing if people will just vote for another party (the nazi party) that won’t tax the rich and their wealth. It’s all the same to them. If there were a big slide to the left-wing parties, boy would there be a problem (for the
richuber-wealthy).Europe keeps using Norway as an example of not taxing the wealthy. When Norway did it, the wealthy left and they lost about half a billion in tax revenue. But, that was because the government did not have an exit tax, which is now in place at 38%.
Basically, it was a scam to let the wealthy exit tax free.
Germany does have an exit tax. Yet German politicians from all major parties keep spinning the lie of the rich fleeing if their wealth was taxed.
I guess they like getting 6 figure donations and cushy do nothing employment in corporate boards a bit too much.
11% still?
I am genuinely surprised it is that much.
But might be already in the range of the typical lower systematic error boundary.
