Saturday, October 21, 2023

Three German News Items

 1.  One of the pieces from WELT today discusses this chatter going on....the suggestion that Scholz (SPD Party) should end the coalition with the Green Party and FDP Party.....then link up with the CDU-CSU Party.  

Odds of this?  Fairly remote.  

Reason to trigger this?  Well...polling numbers are sinking for the SPD, FDP and Greens.  They aren't doing much of a job to sell their coalition 'brand'. 

WELT suggests that the Greens would suffer bad numbers for a while (more than a year), if this were to occur.

What would really change under this idea?  A fair amount of migration issues would be settled in a blunt way....something that the Greens currently can't agree to.

2.  Hundred-year storm going on in north Germany presently (ends this AM).  Lot of damage.

3.  Marburg (Hessen) Fridays-for-the-Future group is dissolving.  Reason?  Well...a fair number of members (juveniles) were of the mind that they didn't have any real prospective/focus.  In a sense, they weren't achieving anything.

Reading through the HR article.....the rationalization that all of this climate chatter led to one center theme....capitalism is the cause of all climate issues.  Blame in their mind....should be put upon politicians and companies.  

Yeah, if you didn't have capitalism issues....climate issues wouldn't exist (will be hard to sell this to the public).  

Just one group in this disappearance situation?  Yeah.

I would imagine within a year....FftF will have to reorganize and drop the climate agenda....being purely anti-capitalism.  That should be an interesting campaign for juveniles to put their energy upon.  

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