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One can always hope, and the probability of nature taking its course grows with increasing age.

Demographics and the so-called centre-left parties are working against us here. But the CDU is also working hard to ensure that we'll have a much bigger problem than themselves, the Nazis of the AfD, within a much shorter time than 16 years.

The only benefit of Merz is, that he's an old geezer who is nearing the ripe age of 70, with a bit of luck, Mother Nature will rid us of him before his term ends.

Is it true that he is invincible?

You really dont, do you?

But knee jerk border checks on a handful roads won't change that in any meaningful way. All it will do is funnel away resources that would be needed elsewhere more urgently. And look impressive on the news.

All while undermining one of the greatest achievements of the EU.

The actual goal of those border controls is just populist knee jerk bullshit to score sympathies with the people who are increasingly voting for the Nazi party.

The political establishment has been predictably unsuccessfully trying to appease the far right by copying their talking points for years by now. This is just another escalation of this disgraceful act, after the Nazis scored high in two state elections.

Quality journalism of the kind that's so expensive we all have to be incessantly nagged with paywalls, ads, and cookie banners in order to pay for it.

I'd rather not eat the rich. After eating a big corporation's CEO, you'll likely need to check yourself into rehab in order to get rid of the cocaine addiction you'll acquire from such a meal.

While quite a lot of the original Nazis went unpunished, the problem is that you can only kill people, but you can't kill an ideology. You can only keep it small by not providing it the societal circumstances it needs to thrive.

If you have rampant social inequality, skyrocketing cost of living, stagnating wages, worsening working conditions all combined with a political establishment that is the a perfect mix of greedy, uncaring, corrupt, and incompetent, people will flock to the political extremes. If there is no left counterbalance to the right, things will get even worse, because people will now only flock to the extreme right. (the absence of an effective left wing counterbalance has brought along the current circumstances in the first place, because it allowed neoliberalism to run rampant unchecked)

Percentages of people with higher education have exploded. (This is of course also driven by market demand and that’s why the liberals supported these policies to an extent making them possible)

The "market demand" is insane, the amount of bullshit jobs that can be done by a trained monkey but supposedly require a whole bunch of high level degrees for comparatively low pay is just ridiculous.

The entire "labour market" is broken and highly skewed in favour of corporations who can and will happily offload the training of their employees on the taxpayer while avoiding paying any taxes themselves wherever possible.

The so-called centre-left chose this neoliberal bracelet round their ankle by themselves. If you look back in history further than the last federal election in Germany, you'll find that one of the harshest social cutbacks in post WW2 German history, the "Agenda 2010" was instituted by this so-called "centre-left", namely a Red/Green coalition under Schröder/Fischer all on their own, without any FDP fig leaf to blame.

The FDP with their well known and predictable antisocial lobby policy having been invited into the current coalition is just a convenient fig leaf for the SPD and the Greens to pretend that they are still somewhat left, while in reality, there isn't anything substantially left left in them.

They do run a hollow and shallow brand of feelgood leftism for a small privileged bubble that doesn't need to worry about hard left topics like working conditions, cost of living, and distribution of wealth.