the last political monitor reflects that people mostly worry about the housing, which means: how can I or my children get to a house, an apartment, a studio and / or what else to pay? 82 percent of those surveyed said housing was their first concern! That should make the politician think. In second place (76 percent) comes the mobility on the roads, thus probably the congestion. Then comes the thoughts that parents make about the future of their children and only in fourth place comes the climate change. So free after Bertold Brecht: “First comes the frets, then the morals!”. It is interesting to note that the older people think more in terms of the climate than the young: in the age category between 55 and 64 years, there are always 62%, of which between 25 and 34 years are 54%. And it should be just the opposite! The young people still lived the entire planet on their lives, and it was up to them – of course, to the elderly – to contribute to a change of mentality, to consume less (blocks) to produce less CO2. But no! They give priority to being able to afford their own bucks as quickly as possible. I can understand them: My house! My wife! My Kids! My Car! The order of magnitude of that revelation was sometimes put there, but idealism still holds strong within limits, especially considering what has been done for a spectacle in recent months around climate change, with Greta Thunberg talking about the media to school-free afternoons. Is the climate movement already melting away like the ice at the North and South Pole?!
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ne thing that really surprised me is the Landtag election in Thuringia, and especially the election result among young people under 30: 24 percent of them voted for the alternative for Germany, for Björn Höcke, who with the victory of the Courts in public should be called a fascist. Hence, every four teenagers do not shy away from giving political support to the “author” of Mahnmal the disgrace. In second place is the gauche in which, in this federal state, the political situation for the coming year is clear: the bourgeois middle is slippery! The CDU reaches 13% for young people, the good old SPD at 8 and even the youngest, while young people do not pack more than 11%. This political center is likely to exist for years, young people who voted yesterday for one or the other extreme, it will be difficult to convince them to change their opinion in the next elections.
I do not think it is advisable to classify all these young people as potential fascists, but the risk of such tendencies is increasing, especially in East Germany: in the last Bundestag elections in 2017, the Eastern youth had always favored the AFD by 16 percent ! It is high time for the traditional parties to settle down, but with Merkel, Karrenbauer, Scholz and & I do not see the end of the tunnel! It is lacking in these parties a personality where it is worthwhile to take a selfie with them…
