Germany’s centre-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD), which are holding coalition talks, have proposed a law that will block people with multiple extremism convictions from standing in elections.
Germany’s centre-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD), which are holding coalition talks, have proposed a law that will block people with multiple extremism convictions from standing in elections.
You’re right, these change-for-change’s sake people do exist. And I don’t know what to say to them, except maybe that if they just excitement in their lives, going bungee-jumping might be better than voting neonazis into power. Their existence seems like a failure of political education too.
But, there’s another, probably much larger group of people who were sucked into propaganda channels that run divide & conquer strategies on society. Much like the change-people, they are barely political but they can be mobilized by irrational fears, like Lidl selling chocolate bunnies being a precursor for their own forced islamization.
In your post, the combination of this “The only options are […] AfD” and this “politics just has to shift into a direction where it’s pro-population, not pro-top1%.”
… is utterly baffling. Right-wing parties, AfD, Fdp, CxU, etc., are quite explicitly pro-special interest, not pro-populace. The further right, the more special the interests. And sure, these parties claim they are proposing common-sense “non-ideological” “sane” ideas while actually ignoring science, ignoring precedent, ignoring negative outcomes for society. That’s their whole MO. If you don’t want the 1% to profit, then maybe just don’t vote anything right of the SPD (and even SPD is a questionable choice in that regard).
Interestingly enough, the economic proposals contained in the last election platform of the Left party were the most financially solid among all parties in that election (as detailed by multiple institutes, e.g. ZEW [de-DE]). The Left were the only party where the state was least burdened with unexplained money outflow that would be prohibited under the debt brake.
Is it possible that by “people who understand economics” you mean the group of people that currently profits from existing inequality? I.e. the 1%ers and the 10%ers. Because that’s the people who would “suffer” from the Left’s proposals (actually, while they’d make less money, they’d most likely live in a much more physically secure society).