Back around 1970 in Germany....the Red Army Faction formed and became a major everyday topic in terms of terrorism and continued threats. The curious thing is that almost all of the members were university students which led out of Frankfurt (in the very beginning).
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s....bank-robberies, bombings and assassinations were a common theme of the RAF.
Making demands and 'enforcing' them was the continual theme of the RAF in this period. Democracy? It could not be part of the agenda because in the minds of RAF members....people were too naive to understand the threat of the German government.
So I turn and look at this beginning effort of the Fridays for the Future crowd, and their stance is that everything must occur....in a hurry, and there are no excuses for delaying things.
Last night....public TV (ARD) ran a weekly forum show....Hart Aber Fair (Hard But Fair). Topic? Changing climate, saving the Earth, and Fridays for the Future.
The teenage kid poked at the CDU Party guy (Pete Altmaier) on a continual basis. He'd come back to note that democracies work in the interest of people, and then he'd talk about the need for jobs and the economy to be stable. The teenage kid wasn't buying into any of that mumbo-jumbo stuff or safe economy chatter. By the end, it kinda struck me that this was stepping-stone method in the late 1960s, and how the radical students put the RAF together as a threat to the government and society.
What bothers me is that society only exists in some safe and tranquil version....if economic benefits exist, and people feel they are getting ahead. If you took the unemployment rate, and raised it to around 15-percent....you create a destabilizing effect on the government and risk harsh realities falling into play. Kids grasping that? You really don't get to a understanding of the economy until around age 20 to 25....when your job, and lifestyle plans start to fall into place.
It might take two years (maybe the 2021 election year here in Germany), but I kinda think that this kid movement is going to be a serious pain for politicians to get around.
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