This morning, I was browsing through the German news and came to this one item from Focus.....which discussed the Fridays for the Future teenagers here in Germany. It's a short piece but it suggests a trend.
RTL (commercial TV network) went out and polled several different groups of young people (some were in student category....some were apprentice-level young people).
Asked if they'd participated in Fridays for the Future....one in three students said 'yes'. There's a second group of almost equal size who said that they might participate in the future.
From the apprentice-level? It was roughly one in nine who'd participated in the Friday action. Around one-third of the apprentice young people could see some participation in the future.
Why the difference? I think the apprentice kids are mostly older and dedicated to their apprentice schedule. Also, the majority of these kids have to put in some hours at a business, and the boss won't accept skipping out on them.
But there is one curious apprentice-level statistic....roughly six out of ten kids say they have zero interest in the movement. From the apprentice crowd (the older kids), it's a good bit less (at 31-percent for Greens).
Serious problems? If you were associated with the SPD Party, it's a significant problem in the next generation. You could be permanently stuck at the 10 to 15 percent level.....with a lot of former SPD voters siding with the Greens in the future.
Is the demonstration business still an urban thing mostly? No one asks that question and no one seems to care. You do see sizable demonstrations on Friday, but it's mostly all highly urbanized areas.
So all of this leading to a political landscape change? More or less.
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