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  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•The American Age Is Over - by Jonathan V. Last
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    17 hours ago

    Maybe East Germans didn’t realize how much they were behind?
    Obviously the task was to pull East Germany up to western standards. And the investments to do so were very significant.
    BUT the old East Germany was more equal, and I don’t think east Germans like the inequality of what they probably perceive as a capitalist problem.
    Inequality is a problem throughout Europe, and those that are supposed to be good at it, like the Scandinavian countries, have been going the wrong way for decades now.
    But of course AfD is destined to make the problem worse instead of better. Just like Trump obviously is in USA. And for the same reason, namely that they lack empathy.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•The American Age Is Over - by Jonathan V. Last
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    2 days ago

    The Putin Party (AFD) will be the strongest party in Germany soon

    I seriously doubt that, we had a similar party here in Denmark that topped at 22%. And even with 22% they never became part of government.

    Even if AfD manages to become part of a government in the future, they will never have exclusive governing power like Trump has in USA. That’s the difference between a functional democracy, and the flawed democracy USA has.
    AfD is mostly popular in the old East Germany, and German politicians need to figure out why that is. Why do they want authoritarianism again?
    I have my suspicions, that it may have to do with not doing enough for ordinary workers, and giving too many privileges to the 1%. This is the problem in USA, where ironically they see Trump as resistance against that, when in fact he is part of the problem.

    If AfD isn’t topping now, German politicians are doing something wrong. Do East Germans really favor Russia above EU?
    If they do, they must be grossly misinformed.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•The American Age Is Over - by Jonathan V. Last
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    2 days ago

    There are a lot of good and bright people in USA, unfortunately they are not the majority.
    I thought for sure Americans learned something from 2 Presidential periods with Bush. But when Trump was elected first time, I knew the American people were “Beyond pedagogical reach”. An expression used here about people who refuse to learn.

    Hopefully this time will be bad enough for enough American people to finally understand the lesson, so this doesn’t happen again in a life time. But I wouldn’t bet on it.

    I fucken hate it here.

    I feel for the Americans that tried to prevent this, because they can see Trump is evil.
    And anyone who denies that Trump isn’t evil has to be both blind and stupid socially. Trump is a flaming malignant narcissist, and that’s basically the definition of pure evil.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•The American Age Is Over - by Jonathan V. Last
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    2 days ago

    This realization may be painful for Americans. But we should know that the rest of the world understands us more clearly than we understand ourselves.

    It seems to me most Americans here know what’s going on, and understand it well.
    But overall I think most Europeans understand USA in a way most Americans don’t. We generally understand how USA as a society is sick, sick with selfishness to a degree it’s become sociopathic, and for some reason it refuses anything that could help cure it.

    50 years ago USA was to many Europeans an ideal to follow. Today it’s a warning of what NOT to do.