43
Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End
(www.bloomberg.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
43 points (72.2% liked)
Europe
8324 readers
15 users here now
News/Interesting Stories/Beautiful Pictures from Europe 🇪🇺
(Current banner: Thunder mountain, Germany, 🇩🇪 ) Feel free to post submissions for banner pictures
Rules
(This list is obviously incomplete, but it will get expanded when necessary)
- Be nice to each other (e.g. No direct insults against each other);
- No racism, antisemitism, dehumanisation of minorities or glorification of National Socialism allowed;
- No posts linking to mis-information funded by foreign states or billionaires.
Also check out !yurop@lemm.ee
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
The lack of investment in strategic infrastructure, the lack of public expenses, and the mostly monolithic neoliberal economic politics bring them to this situation.
At one point, you need to invest public money in the infrastructure that work for the day-to-day life of everyone. In this case, we speak about the railway network. Europe can't be car centric like the US. The geography and the urbanism of European towns and cities don't allow this perspective.
This has implication on the job market as poorer can't afford a job. The neoliberal politics targeting the social welfare make people poorer and this had influences on the consumption and the economy. It's of course more complicated than this. But, it gives an idea of the situation.
And then they are surprised that people don't trust the government anymore and the fascists gain so much popular support. If you are too much stuck in your ideological corridor where austerity is the holy grail of politics and spending money is evil, and on top of that you are constantly fighting with your coalition partners and get nothing done that way, instead of helping your country out of this economic crisis, this is what you get
Nobody is surprised. The FDP knows exactly what they're doing, which is make as much politics blatantly in favour of their donors as long as they're in power. They don't care about what that does to the general populace or even how they're perceived for it. One or two elections later everyone will have basically forgotten about it again anyway and the whole shtick repeats.
It is not so much that everyone will have forgotten about it and more that they tend to go for first time voters who were maybe 10 years old the last time the FDP pulled the same thing.
I still blame those first time voters for not informing themselves properly before voting. They all should know people whom they could ask, and are old enough to remember, if they only cared enough.