- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
- 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.
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.
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.
If everyone would use “Wahl-o-Mat” before voting, we would have a different situation… but in germany, we vote the same party again and again, it doesn’t matter what they do… 🙄
We should make Wahl-o-Mat mandatory for voting
The thing about democracy is that every voter tends to assume that people who vote differently to them are doing democracy incorrectly, but alas, they are doing democracy flawlessly.
No matter how many requirements and spelling tests you add in front of the voting booth, no matter how many “guardrails” you implement, democracy always yields tyranny of majorities and always abolishes itself at some point.
It’s a multi party system. The ruling party usually gets ~30% of votes.
People in Europe tend to be less religious about supporting their politicians. You can decide that some party is the best option in current situation but still disagree with them on many issues. You can support the party or your representative but not the current leadership. You can support a minor coalition partner but not the main coalition party.
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.
You say that, look at the US. If you are borrowing for capital improvements that will save money in the long run, that’s a good use of borrowed money.
Borrowing to give corporations tax breaks and subsidies, or other pet projects, is not a good use of borrowed money at all, no matter how many ivy league or their fancy aristocratic swell equivalents in europe get on tv to tell us otherwise.
The neocons are wrong on everything, knowingly so pushing self serving dogma on us.
+++ 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.
Merz has long been known as a pathological liar, and corrupt to the core. The single greatest achievement of Angela Merkel is that she managed to keep him out of power for 16 years.
Anyone who didn’t expect Merz to lie about everything is just dumb. The writing wasn’t just on the wall, it was on every wall. IN ALL FUCKING CAPS, AND BOLD TYPEFACE.
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.