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[quote=Anonymous]The second article, from yesterday :

https://nyti.ms/2E5M8gU

“This downward trend is not limited to Germany — in most major Western European countries, center-left parties are in retreat, and in some cases they have practically ceased to exist. Just what has happened to social democracy?”

“Social democracy’s second contradiction is that you can’t promote a borderless world and the welfare state at the same time.”

“In the last election, millions of angry left-wing voters in places like the Ruhrgebiet, Germany’s equivalent of the Rust Belt in America, saw a state that had plenty of money for others but not for them. The response of Social Democrat leaders was to label such critics “right-wingers” and to demand they embrace even more liberal virtues, like identity and gender politics. This prompted a defection of hundreds of thousands of Social Democratic voters to the far-right Alternative for Germany, which scored almost 13 percent in the election.”

I don’t take joy in saying “told you so” - im just disheartened why the movers and shakers on our side didn’t see this 3-5 years before in order to formulate solutions. I find it sad that it took 2016/2017 for the “influencers” and policy types to figure his out.

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