Have you been in germany this last week, have you read any of the news from there ? are you Naive about the CDUs position ? How come that this can still be the excuse ?

I’m well aware. But honestly, it was just some insignificant vote telling the government to look into something. Nothing actually happened. I don’t think there is any chance that the CDU will form a coalition with the AfD.

Have you lived under CDU nothingness for most of the last 25 years?

I’ve only lived under 23 years of CDU, but I can’t barley remember the Kohl years. And the 16 years under Merkel weren’t that bad, really they start to look better and better as time goes on.

And the afd imo. only is this big because of fear of economic downturn from it’s voterbase + the constant fearmongering now taken up by CDU and SPD as well as to a lesser extent Grüne.

I can’t tell you why the AfD is so big, I really don’t get it. But I don’t think it has anything to do with the main stream parties picking up some of their talking points. That’s a quite recent thing and they have been gaining steadily for a long time for different reasons.

And while I don’t know a lot of AfD voters, they are pretty either have fallen for some conspiracy or are barley closeted racists that have issues with immigration. I’ve never met one that was concerned about “economic downturn”.

With destruction of the economy […]

Yeah, I don’t see that as this acute of an issue. You even said it’s “relatively hard”. I’d say in Germany life is generally “relatively easy”. Sure it could be improved and I do like a few of Die Linke’s ideas there. But …

If you just look at a party Program without listening to the politicians when they actually explain it sure yes that is the position. Do you believe party programs will be policy word for word?

Listing to the politicians doesn’t help as much as you think. The thought their entire pacificst and anti-NATO rethoric was stupid even before 2014. And to not have updated that by 2022 is just insane. Their foreign policy is geopolitical suicide. I’m never gonna vote for that, no matter how great their domestic politics might be.

This is a hyperbole, but maybe that will get my point across: Imagine if they had “all homosexuals should be killed” in their party program. Even if that isn’t what they believe of practice right now … would you vote for them if it was still there in writing? I mean, how hard is it to update a document or website?

They haven’t been for 2+ years now don’t kid yourself that they can be stopped in the way you’d like (total ukrainian victory plus short timeline is a pipedream).

It was always gonna be that. And only time will tell. But I’m quite sure that when, in a couple of years, we look back at right now, the only conclusion would be to have given Ukraine more weapons and faster.

And if there is a chance of RRG your already threatening (with the Ukraine thing still being like 90+% solid), to throw any chance of progress for anyone that doesn’t already have it all away, fucking beautifully compassionate.

It’s obvious we don’t prioritzise progress in the same way. It’s not even about die Linke, our foreign policy doesn’t need another Scholz chancellorship. The SPD should have swapped him out. That’s on them as well.

I’m honestly hoping for green/red/black at least. I don’t think green/black will be possible, but that would be ideal for me.