German support for Ukraine under pressure from populists

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Under pressure from Nazis and tankies.

I think it is important to understand what gave them their recent power. The self imposed neoliberal austerity and self imposed paralysis of the current government of social demcorats, greens and liberals had pushed the small fissures that developed through rising inequality over the past 30 years in Germany into fully blown open cracks. Especially the failure to address the economic and social impact the Covid pandemic had swiftly followed by the huge inflation with Covid and the invasion shorty after, cracked a lot of people. Meanwhile the conservative CDU just went into full right to far right populist attack mode, actively sabotaging both the federal and local governments.

Russian has been playing its propaganda game for at least a decade before that, but instead of addressing the systemic issues in Germany, politics ever only chased the next few years and Merkel just smothered the country into sleep, while the problems grew.

Now the solution would be to address necessary investments, providing a vision for a secure and positive future. Instead the government runs after far right populist ideas, becoming ever more authoritarian and racist. And this only further helps the populists of AfD and BSW presenting these as "solutions".

Meanwhile Scholz declared "all is right with my style" while having worse popularity ratings than Schröder in his worst time. Gas-Gerhard ffs. Everybody hated that guy and kicked him out of office.

SPD, I know you're not interested in my opinion. But people need hope, not a damp towel. Even if that hope is a lie, they need it. AfD and the most self centered Sahra of all times thrive on the hope of the people without bringing anything to the table. I don't wanna live with chancellor Merz and minister of foreign affairs Höcke. Fucking do something! Or bring Mutti back. I'd even vote CDU (for Merkel, not Merz) for the first time in my life just to stomp the assholes back to the gutter.

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