It’s just so stupid how climate activists gluing themselves to the street is hated by everyone and they are often locked away to keep them from disturbing traffic again and some people in the government are calling them terrorists and that you don’t negotiate with them, and then the farmers do the same thing only with tractors blocking traffic and everyone seems to be okay with that and the government even takes steps in their direction…
The difference is one of them wants change and the others want money.
One of them wants things to stay the same allowing people to still believe nothing has to change and the other one tells people that change is inevitable and asks them to change their habits eventually to accommodate that change.
And it seems most people are enjoying being just ignorant of changing conditions as long as you can pin the blame for why things go wrong on someone else…
“Growing bureaucratic burdens and rising costs over the last 10 years have built up an immense frustration that is now being aired,”
If anything plays into the hands of the far right it is the German media which fails to remind the farmers that anything that has been building up that long is actually the fault of the parties who were in power for most of those 10 years and the years before those. The very same parties who are now forcing the current governments hand and whose populists are parroting the talking points of the right-wing parties
And this is what happens when your political spectrum is lacking a credible moderate left option, everyone is legitimising the far right by parroting their talking points in order to fish for votes, and decades of austerity for austerity’s sake paired with rampant nepotism, corruption and malicious incompetence of virtually all major political actors having rendered the state unable to act.
