Germans Are Running Short on Patience With Their Stumbling Chancellor
Germans Are Running Short on Patience With Their Stumbling Chancellor
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Germans Are Running Short on Patience With Their Stumbling Chancellor
When Friedrich Merz became Germany’s chancellor this year, he promised to revive a moribund economy, rebuild the nation’s neglected infrastructure and making the country relevant on the global stage again. His failure to deliver on many of these core issues has not only helped energize far-right parties like the Alternative for Germany
Merz also caused confusion at an October meeting of European Union leaders, when he incorrectly reported a trade agreement with the Mercosur bloc had been concluded. He later brushed off the mistake as a minor issue.
Merz is a conservative conman like all the rest. He wants to enrich himself and his allies at the cost of selling out his neighbors and countrymen.
If people want progress they must vote for progressives, if they want things to improve they must vote for those that stand with the working men and women of their country, if they want to be more wealthy they must vote for those that would make them wealthy by reducing wealth inequality.
In Germany that means voting for Die Linke and the Greens and when you have to the SPD.
Wer hat uns verraten?
Sozialdemokraten!
The SPD is not perfect but based on my short time in Germany they seemed decent. Would I prefer someone more progressive and more capable? Yes. But if you're talking about the stop light coalition, I don't see the SPD's actions as blatant betrayal. It read to me, admittedly not a native German speaker/reader and who came in a year or so into their coalition, like all lost progress was entirely the fault of the FDP. They conspired against their own coalition and I personally believe they should never be elected to another public office again. They were traitors to the German public and did so with intention, disgusting behavior I hope the German public never forgets or forgives.
SPD really needs a breather. Let's have a Green/Left coalition for some Years and then maybe they can come back
That coalition, if they stuck to their word, would last so long it would only fall out of favor when people forgot how bad it was under the CSU coalitions.
Edit: which I should say, Germany is amazing as it currently is. People are unbelievably fortunate to be living nearly anywhere in the EU, let alone Germany. As an immigrant from the US, things are markedly better here and I hope to never leave.