Political Chatter

 Last night.....ARD  (public TV, Channel One) ran the public chat forum of 'Hard But Fair'.  So the main topic was....where is the political spectrum heading for the September national election?  

At some point, they got all chatty on the Green Party and Markus Blume (CDU Party guy) made the comment: "You have to be able to afford to choose green."

In the past month, as the fog and smoke have gone away, and the Green agenda items have been put on the table....most folks are now discussing the cost factor.  By the time you touch all the programs, fees, taxes, and work-arounds....you can figure a typical German family will have go and find at least a thousand Euro a year to pay for the agenda.  

Yes, there are rumors where the Greens would invent some method to pay the common working family back....from the enormous tax revenue bucket that would likely be created. 

Later in the show....the mayor of Augustusburg (SPD guy, Saxony town)....Dirk Neubauer spoke up at a key point on the Green Party and its agenda....saying "I don't need you, I need your money!" in referring to their agenda to soak people for tax revenue.  

Focus carried a good bit of the story, and I'd recommend a read of it. 

Between the agenda issues, higher cost to the public, and negative spiral of their candidate (Baerbock), I'm not that confident in them winning the election anymore.  I might put their numbers closer to 16-percent, with the SPD likely to take somewhere in the 20-percent range (getting to second place).  

The key issue brewing if this were to occur?  To reach some coalition government situation. 

Finally, there was this brief exchange between the AfD Party guy on the show (Chrupalla) and the Linke Party gal (Wagenknecht).  Wagenknecht slammed the AfD Party by stating the obvious....they have no social issues agenda....nothing.  

You can go back to 2016 and view the agenda listing of the AfD Party, and it had one central theme....anti-migrant/anti-immigration.  Beyond that, it was pretty much a blank sheet.  Maybe once a year, they'd pick up one single topic to add on, but it wasn't going to convince anyone to jump over to the party.

As long as the SPD and CDU-CSU folks can keep the migration issues at a minimum and just not import anymore mass immigration folks.....this issue is mostly dead.  In doing so, the AfD folks have maxed out on public sentiment.