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It is fucked. The political spectrum moved to the right very strongly. I would see the current "social democrats" to be right of the conservative CDU under Merkel. The left party evaporated and a pro-Putin block (BSW) broke off and seems to be stronger now. Aside from being pro-Putin they also whistle nationalist anti-immigration policy.
The CDU and their bavarian sister CSU went full far right populism, claiming immigrants to be stealing dentist appointments and now also fighting "trans ideology". The CSU had many appointments with Trumpists to learn strategy from them.
The neo-liberal FDP now said, that Argentinians Milei and Elon Musk should be the role models to strive for, so the also go complete austerity, sell every scrap of functioning infrastructure, fuck the poor and also racist anti-immigration stances.
The green party moved from being center-left to being center right, also following the anti-immigration bullshit and being the strongest on radical support for Israels war crimes and supporting authoritarian crackdowns on dissenting people, in particular dissenting jewish people in Germany. However all parties signed off on a recent "non-binding, but kind of binding resolution" to "tackle antisemitism" by suggesting measures like universities, museums and art galleries to have a contact with the interior intelligence and have the interior intelligence surveil any scientist or artist for "signs of antisemitism" to revoke their funding and access to spaces of culture and research.
Oh, and SPD and CDU are already looking forward to implement unconstitutional total surveillance of every citizen again, like they have tried a bunch of time over the past decades, so far being blocked by the constitutional court.
So Tl,dr: The entire political spectrum moved from options ranging from left to right to options ranging from center right to fascism. Good thing for Poland that the German army is incompetent these days.
Shit.
Thanks for the write-up. It fits my general impression of what has been going on, but I was low key hoping I was being paranoid.
Is there at least a chance Die Linke has gotten rid of some problematic tendencies now that Wagenknecht created her own lunatic party? Not that they would put up much of a fight from their 4% of the Bundestag.
It looks as if the left has at least understood that they have to change something. There have been quite a few campaigns to attract attention so far.
Also, about 20% of the current members joined after Wagenknecht left. The new members are mainly young people who obviously don't like Wagenknecht. I think the pro-Ukraine wing in the party has become much stronger as a result, but they are holding back because they don't want to have a fight during the election campaign.
I have always struggled with what I would vote if I were a German voter. I haven't liked the SPD since they followed Blair down the drain and Lafontaine left, I couldn't vote for die Linke knowing it was a safe haven for the Wagenknechts out there, and don't get me started on the Greens.
So for the first time since I became aware of German politics, I'm eyeing an opening where I could possibly have voted in good conscience in a German election. So that gives me some hope out of all this madness.
Of course, I cannot vote anyway, so blah.
The Green party blocked arms deliveries to Israel on humanitarian grounds for months.
Also the resolution uses the definition for antisemitism from the IHRA, which very clearly states:
If anything the Greens namely Baerbock have done that quite a bit. She as the foreign minister was in shouting matches with Netanyhau over aid flow to Gaza.
And then delivered more weapons as well as abstained from general assembly votes and most importantly repeatedly reiterated how Germany is one of the closest allies of Israel...
That is what you said. Obviously that does not align, with what I just wrote and sourced.
"Of this, the entire value is accounted for by 'other military equipment'," from the article. Hence those are not weapons, but restricted components or protective gear.
They would have voted for or against. Abstaining means you do not fully agree with the resolution, but are also not fully against it. Anybody who is as you claim a strong radical supporter, would never abstain on those issues.