The guy worked for Black Rock who I’ve only heard of in “evil corporation” contexts. He made millions of dollars doing this work and then he gets back into politics and his one of his first priorities is lowering the taxes of corporations during a period where the government needs to be raising more funds and investing in its people! How is that not an obvious quid pro quo? Isn’t he not an obviously compromised actor who’s more ambitious than he is good willed?
Not even talking about conservatives as vehicles for societal decline, how is Merz not viewed by everyone as someone who has only his and his wealthy friends interests at heart by his past actions and history? Of course he’s not the change we need, he’s conservative - they, on average, cause pain to the working class. But even more so Merz is compromised, is he not? Just like the FDP after their last coalition stunt.
If someone, including a whole party, put party or power before the people of Germany (and I would argue the people of Europe and mankind as a whole) shouldn’t they be barred from ruling? They’re exactly the people you don’t want running.
We had someone “new” with great ideas. His ideas were held back and his ideas suppressed by Russian disinformation fueled by BILD and Springer and a treasonous AfD.
His name is Robert Habeck.
Those air quotes are doing some real work here.
Well, he‘s not a political greenhorn. What I do think is that his pragmatism and his approach to make green and social policies acceptable for other parties by finding compromises was a fresh approach.
If Habeck had been placed in a productive, trusting environment, he could have done a lot better, just like he did in Schleswig-Holstein before. But Habeck was placed in an adversarial environment instead and it just killed his style of politics. Unfortunately, he either couldn’t or didn’t want to adapt, even during this past election campaign, where he tried to hold unwilling gonservatives hands.
