Conservatives are already implementing lots of the AfD’s policies from only a few years ago. They don’t need to be in power, they’re already setting the agenda.
Democracy doesn’t work without education, I’m sick and tired of these idiots voting for their own, and my, executioners
Do or organise the education.
No. It’s the duty of the government to provide education. This can’t be off-loaded to the populace. We have to organize mass protests and eliminate the means for propaganda, starting with the shit tech bros come up with.
Anyone who wants (and can) provide additional education is always welcome and highly encouraged of course.
Education is an essential part of controlling the government. If it is organised by the government the population could as well let the government control itself or let it select its successor.
Problem here is also capitalism. If those who have capital/own and make their money through owning have all the time free and still make more money. -> more money -> can pay more to others to do what they want. -> those with more can do and organize more of “their” education -> democracy still fucked by capitalism or not, depending on who has the capital and what those want -> not democratic (, as only some are deciding what is done and those are not even the one who know stuff).
The media creates the nazi party’s popularity by the way.
Success is always broadcasted, failure never.
The same way media reports multiple times as often on stock markets losing value than gaining value.
communication from other parties is abysmal to non-existent in my experience
i can’t remember when was the last time that a big party said “that’s what we want, that’s what we’re gonna do, that’s the goal and we’ll make it”. it’s all accusing each other and a mudthrowing party.
the afd at least offers goals. they say “we’ll kick out the immigrants and take back our country”. that sounds good. at least it gives people hope. that’s why they vote afd
we need more parties that actually want something instead of throwing mud around non-stop. we need to go back to the basics and iterate about what people want and how do we get there.
And still losing in the communal elections ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Sadly that doesn‘t generate clicks so we have to keep telling people fascism is coming and resistance is futile. We need that sweet advertising money after all. Democracy be damned.
what happened to the German Greens ?
Hovering around 15% in polls but struggling to get more due to a bashing campaign by pretty much everyone else but spearheaded by the conservatives.
Media did a succesful bashing campaign
They got the thick end of the stick of conservative and right wing propaganda
They are a party for the wealthy, like the other parties.
They are the FDP for people who want to ease their ecological cobscience when driving to the organic supermarket in their hybrid SUV to buy themselves a soy latte packaged in single-use plastic.
With the German Greens, all you’ll get is neoliberalism with rainbow flags. And getting beaten up by cops for protesting against brown coal strip mining eradicating entire forests and villages, because why not?
There is only one solution to right wing authoritarian populism and that’s left wing libertarian populism.
Europe really needs to get over cold war red scare propaganda.
Left wing libertarianism is an oxymoron, woke FDP isn’t going to solve anything.
You got it the wrong way around. Left libertarianism (which is now commonly called anarchism) has been going strong for at least a century (and likely has its roots way back in indigenous people organizing themselves) until Rothbard and his ghouls took over the term for their shitty ideology in the 60s.
Food for thought: How do you think people organized themselves before some white dudes had thoughts about monarchies.
But you can always dream of a hierarchical structure that magically does not oppress its weakest members or corrupts its leadership if that is your cup of tea.
Being left libertarian in the usa is always a fun conversation with others, especially in a extremely conservative state. Generally I don’t even use the term due to the confusion.
