One of the most frustrating things about media coverage of fragmented politics is the inability of journalists/editors/producers to ever accommodate more than one narrative about a complex result.
And the narrative they always seem to favour, if available, is "why is the radical right growing?"
And the narrative they always seem to favour, if available, is "why is the radical right growing?"
Comments
While obviously true, that's a terrible incentive structure. "Lets only talk about the bullies" tells voters being a bully works as a political strategy. I can't see how that's a good thing.
It seems they align themselves with the Nordic model. Not QUITE Stalinism, then.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_(Germany)
When in reality a majority of the left votes come with the understanding that they will be opposition.
Government chartered & backed banks could fund the markets in accordance with the public good.
Adam Smith was a Marxist !!!! 😉
And some young men are eating far-right rich-male ideas :-(.
We need imagination and hope that can be made a reality.
Largely what happened is that young women who in large numbers voted Green last time around now went to the Left after getting disappointed.
(And agreed.)
Ans I also noticed this interesting graph & the fact the young women were apparently invisible.
They are not a centre-left party any more, also not by ideology. Cause Seeheimer Kreis has taken over
And NO! that is not how all academics, especially not in GERMANY, categorize them
Same goes for traditional media: there are really few working-class people there.
Good for all young women who are using their votes for self-defence and defence of all. They give all of us hope.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/germany2025
as someone living in germany i would call Die Linke left, the Greens center to MAYBE center-left, SPD center, CDU center-right, BSW center-right, FDP center-right, AfD far right/radical right
and die Linke is really far from being radically left, sadly
https://www.die-linke.de/partei/parteidemokratie/parteivorstand/parteivorstand-2022-2024/detail-beschluesse-pv/fuer-eine-verhandlungsperspektive-schritte-zur-deeskalation-im-ukraine-krieg/
Ex: in the US many Rs in Congress are afraid to stand up for the law b/c they're constantly getting death threats from MAGA.
Can't fix that, so is the solution for them to get death threats from the rest of us too?
Fascist regimes weren’t toppled by moral superiority alone.
So we just need to get more aggressive. Be nuttier.
https://bsky.app/profile/jburnmurdoch.ft.com/post/3livzahm7v22g
It took them years to remember the word, lie. Euphemisms.
…
Why would sheep start voting for radical, loud sheep and not vote for wolves? Especially at a time when wolves are voting for even more viscous predatory wolves? It’s a real conundrum, isn’t it?
Let’s talk about men and also by extension let’s talk about what men are talking about. Sounds like a very plausible explanation
Maybe it could be argued that means more influence of the views or maybe just people in media see it more so talk about it more?
‘Make it big’ as one editor would say
Is that really so hard for you to understand???
no one with any sense expects you to understand much of anything. Like most evolutionarily outmoded males these days, you are desperately trying to 'normalize' unconscionable male pattern behaviors instead of evolving into something useful.