1. There is some trend where hyped-up issues that ONLY affect metro-cities (and their voters)....have zero affect or hyped-up nature for mid-sized towns or villages. This sets some parties apart.....where they can't sell their brand, or hype. Some villages would be super-happy....if they just had a single bus route/schedule....stopping/leaving....a dozen times a day.....going 'somewhere'. The same village will tell you they haven't had an assault/robbery...since 1967....mentioning the guilty party by his first-name.
2. Crime/drugs....are probably listed as a top five problem....with most cities trying to show you statistics that it hasn't gone up much in ten years. However, if you back to West Germany/East Germany days (before 1990)....there's a serious difference. I'm not saying things were 'better' or 'different'....just that older people note this odd trend.
3. There is some type of fascination starting up....that the German federal government....can resolve/fix....all problems. The same type of fascination exists for the EU as well. Germans can't really say how lawyers in gov't seem to have any talents other than arguing or debating.
4. Job losses are starting to be noticed, and parties are trying to invent resolutions. Whatever the German market is selling (selling for several decades)....it's now in poor shape to produce and sell at a profit today. Matters seem locked onto this trend.
5. China, competition, AI, Trump, AfD, money-laundering, Putin's Russia, and capitalism....are all pretty much 'enemies-of-the-state' now. The 8 PM ARD nightly news will usually have at least one 'enemies-of-the-state' element.
6. Pretty much the majority of Germans now agree....things are too much regulated. Yet....stopping the regulations or dissolving them....is nearly impossible.
7. Germans seem fixated that any time you have a knifing incident or car-assault-attack....the guilty party will confess to hearing voices, be radicalized, be male, or be victims of long-term paranoid schizophrenia. For the slightly-to-the-left or slighty-to-the-right....it's impossible to not see this identification or to avoid asking stupid questions.
8. German public TV is not widely accepted as the 'simple-truth' anymore. Probably half of society asks questions and sees some element of propaganda existing.
9. The free-stuff social 'sales'.....probably peaked out ten to fifteen years ago in Germany. Socialism has a cost element....you can only go so far with 'freeness'.
10. If Putin were able to stage an invasion on Germany....based on polling....somewhere around 30 to 50 percent of 18-to-25 year old German males would agree to military service. The rest would refuse to enlist/fight. (Putin is probably is sitting there and kicking himself....could have just as easily invaded Germany instead of Ukraine, and wrapped up the job in 100 days)
11. It seems likely within a decade....about one-third of all Germans (living) won't be able to read, write, speak....at a rate beyond the 5th grade. I'm not saying it's a bad thing...just that it's hard to imagine the better Germans accepting the lesser Germans at the same 'level'.
12. It seems obvious....within a decade....the German gov't will have to invent some dimwit-job profession because of AI consuming half the job market, and the bulk of youth potential are geared to 5th-grade level (at age 18-to-25). Where these jobs will come from? Unknown.
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