We have elections coming up. That’s why the guy suddenly takes new positions that he never represented before.
He has also suddenly discovered his love of heatpumps!
the fact that he changed his position in light of the upcoming election is a strong indication of where public opinion is headed.
Unfortunately, it is, yeah. Inflation and a rising cost of living leaves many citizen with not much choice, but to believe that their situation will improve, if we just stop accepting immigrants and stop helping out Ukraine and stop fighting climate change and whatever else there is.
Of course, the actual solution would be getting more money into poor people’s pockets.
Politicians without morals will rather risk a Fourth Reich, though, because the actual solution is hard, not just for them but also their sponsors.A government that doesn’t care about the plight of its own people obviously cares about people in Ukraine even less. The solution would indeed be to start addressing the cost of living crisis that was caused by the war, and the first step towards that is to end the war which the current government is vehemently opposed to doing. Of course, when right wingers ultimately get in power, nothing is going to get better, so dark times ahead for Germany.
