Today's Bad News

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Re: Today's Bad News

Reply #525 – 2024-06-28, 12:01:15

Quote from: ersi on 2024-06-28, 02:31:51

try to limit yourself to words whose meaning you know and to concepts that are applicable to the topic.[/list]

Says the propagandist!
As you've recently evidenced, your vocabulary is encrusted in invective and vitriol. Why? Maybe that's just your personality.

I do hope you are tee-total or at least drink only at home. With your penchant for aggressive and unnecessary insult, a pub would be very dangerous for you!

Re: Today's Bad News

Reply #526 – 2024-09-01, 08:41:23

State elections in Germany: Thüringen, Sachsen, and Brandenburg, which are all ex-DDR.

In (former) eastern Germany, the political parties poll as follows:
1. AfD
2. CDU
3. Sahra Wagenknecht

SPD (Scholz) is a non-entity in eastern Germany. Source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20107253

On the federal level the parties balance to:
1. CDU
2. AfD (16.8%)
3. SPD (15%)
4. Grüne (11.6%)
5. Sahra Wagenknecht (7.8%)

(In the source, read CDU for Union.)

Basically, Germany can only be saved if CDU steals enough platform points from AfD and then will purposely not deliver on them https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jl7e0769ro

Re: Today's Bad News

Reply #527 – 2024-09-02, 07:31:09

AfD is largest party in Thuringia, at about 33%, That is up from 23% in 2019, when Die Linke was on top, but still less than their 1933 results. It is second largest in Saxony with 31%, up from 28%. Biggest growth is Brandenburg, from 12% to 24%.

West Germany never managed to fix East Germany, and while they might revert to the old approach, throw money at them, hasn't really worked for 35 years (though the cities are nicer now). The split-up of Die Linke is a good enough example. The marriage between the DDR socialists of the East and a smattering of champagne socialists of the West wouldn't last.

Of course it is a problem, both that this reunification project has been the project of this generation, and that AfD has better chance with the Andrew Tate disciples of the West than the DDR socialists have of crossing the Fulda Gap without Soviet help.

However, the AfD is not going to take over Thuringia, never mind the rest of Germany. Not going to happen, never going to happen.

As a response, expect some loud handwringing (that has already begun), more wasted money (the stupid German debt brake might actually help here), and sure, some measures like "tough on crime". Most of these will achieve nothing, others will achieve a lot, but over an extended period of time.