I sat and watched video of the SPD Party meeting from the weekend. It was a hyped-up event with Chancellor-candidate Olaf Scholz 'selected' and 'stamped' as the official guy for the party.
Presently, with polling? At best, 16-percent. If the trend holds, it'll be the worst loss for the SPD Party since WW II ended.
What's really happened over the last decade to dissolve their support? I might go and point at three things:
1. The Green Party stole a lot of the SPD-special themes. If you were a left-of-center voter....you viewed the Green Party as the better of left-of-center choices.
2. The SPD used to be the party for the common working man. Nobody really feels that type of situation anymore.
3. The SPD Chancellor candidates from the past three elections haven't exactly been that enthusiastic (Schulz, Steinbruck, Steinmeier).
If the party does end up with a 15-to-16 percent situation? It would be hard to see how they recover for 2025....without going radical and getting a non-traditional Chancellor candidate.
So the viewing of this weekend meeting and results? It just seemed to be a full-blast party situation, where no hyped-up nature really existed (maybe Covid is part of this dilemma). Kinda like a party without booze or music.
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