I didn't go to my self-help group this evening. For various reason. The main reason is the last times they made me fucking uncomfortable and had insane arguments.
Instead I sent way too many voice notces and texr messages to my friends.
This thread is really really lazy. But maybe someone on here in interested in my take on the current state of German politics and the discussions about a potential resignation of Friedirch Merz. I sent the text on German to friends but I used an AI translation for posting it on here. It should not become a habit to use translators for rants I did with my friends.
It is not perfectly polished and maybe I would be more careful about some statements revising it. But my posts on here are raw anyway. On German my vocabulary is just so much larger and I can be more precise. I enjoy that.
Here is it:
I'm not sure whether the rumors about Merz resigning aren't being deliberately spread by the media. Or at least blown out of proportion. I think these rumors mainly help the AfD, and I agree with a ZEIT article that the decline of the CDU/CSU would benefit the AfD the most. Still, most media outlets are participating in this. Probably not all of them deliberately, but rather for reasons of the attention economy.
I personally find WĆ¼st more sympathetic than Merz, but I'm actually strongly against replacing him like this. It would cause major upheaval within the coalition, and the resulting chaos would mainly benefit the AfD. The same goes for this inflated discussion about Saxony-Anhalt. You can see how some of the fearmongering actually plays into the hands of right-wing populists. Now people are talking about an epochal break, a historic event, etc., that is supposedly supposed to have serious consequences for government policy.
I think the coalition needs more stability and calm instead. The commissions should work out solutions, and there should be more continuity. Putting everything to the test now and demanding maximum consequences seems misguided to me. I think what is needed is effective leadership and trust in good leadership, like there was under Angela Merkel. You didn't have the feeling that you had to expect a government crisis every single day. That's probably also a simplification. And Merz has character flaws, just like Scholz. But demanding his resignation now seems excessive to me. The government's performance simply isn't that catastrophic. And if you constantly talk everything down, you help populists.
What I find worst is that Merz is actually being pushed more toward cooperating with the AfD if people now demand a massive shift in the political environment. But Merz has positioned himself so strongly against the AfD that, simply for reasons of political credibility, he is forced to continue on this course. If you now dismantle him on the grounds that we have to do something against the AfD, even though he is a chancellor who clearly rejects cooperation with the AfD, that will only intensify polarization within the CDU/CSU, and the party could split.
And in my opinion, as you can see across Europe, you need a strong and consolidated conservative party to counter the far right. The rise of right-wing populists in Europe has very often been preceded by the dismantling or decline of conservative parties. And I have the feeling that the media are making themselves accomplices in this. Some journalists probably because of their own political agenda, others for economic reasons.
Instead I sent way too many voice notces and texr messages to my friends.
This thread is really really lazy. But maybe someone on here in interested in my take on the current state of German politics and the discussions about a potential resignation of Friedirch Merz. I sent the text on German to friends but I used an AI translation for posting it on here. It should not become a habit to use translators for rants I did with my friends.
It is not perfectly polished and maybe I would be more careful about some statements revising it. But my posts on here are raw anyway. On German my vocabulary is just so much larger and I can be more precise. I enjoy that.
Here is it:
I'm not sure whether the rumors about Merz resigning aren't being deliberately spread by the media. Or at least blown out of proportion. I think these rumors mainly help the AfD, and I agree with a ZEIT article that the decline of the CDU/CSU would benefit the AfD the most. Still, most media outlets are participating in this. Probably not all of them deliberately, but rather for reasons of the attention economy.
I personally find WĆ¼st more sympathetic than Merz, but I'm actually strongly against replacing him like this. It would cause major upheaval within the coalition, and the resulting chaos would mainly benefit the AfD. The same goes for this inflated discussion about Saxony-Anhalt. You can see how some of the fearmongering actually plays into the hands of right-wing populists. Now people are talking about an epochal break, a historic event, etc., that is supposedly supposed to have serious consequences for government policy.
I think the coalition needs more stability and calm instead. The commissions should work out solutions, and there should be more continuity. Putting everything to the test now and demanding maximum consequences seems misguided to me. I think what is needed is effective leadership and trust in good leadership, like there was under Angela Merkel. You didn't have the feeling that you had to expect a government crisis every single day. That's probably also a simplification. And Merz has character flaws, just like Scholz. But demanding his resignation now seems excessive to me. The government's performance simply isn't that catastrophic. And if you constantly talk everything down, you help populists.
What I find worst is that Merz is actually being pushed more toward cooperating with the AfD if people now demand a massive shift in the political environment. But Merz has positioned himself so strongly against the AfD that, simply for reasons of political credibility, he is forced to continue on this course. If you now dismantle him on the grounds that we have to do something against the AfD, even though he is a chancellor who clearly rejects cooperation with the AfD, that will only intensify polarization within the CDU/CSU, and the party could split.
And in my opinion, as you can see across Europe, you need a strong and consolidated conservative party to counter the far right. The rise of right-wing populists in Europe has very often been preceded by the dismantling or decline of conservative parties. And I have the feeling that the media are making themselves accomplices in this. Some journalists probably because of their own political agenda, others for economic reasons.
