Yeah.... not decades of brain dead conservative government that let the country slowly but constantlly crumble away while even embedding paralysing austerity measures in the constitution are to blame for Germany being the one single country not recovering from covid and the energy crisis (what did all other countries do different? they invested instead of reducing their debt ratio in a crisis - reasoning: more wiggle room in a crisis 🤡). It's the incompetent traffic light coalition so bad that bridges started to break down in frustation after decades of neglect, elelctronic signals are too confused to pass those fast copper lines quickly and companies prefer -for some mysterious reason- to invest in other countries where they get subsidies... and that government really, really needed to die so we can get a few more decades of the same non-governing morons only managing the status quo and slow decay instead. This time they even come with an extra dose of far-right populism on top to make things interesting and keep us occupied with cursing about all those evil foreigners. I am so glad the next generation will have no financial debt while living in the ruins of once existing infrastructure and economy (because we all know that decades of investment backlog are something completely different from debt).
Uh, in this rare instance The Economist published something that calls for more public spending and less austerity. I think some are realising what years of neoliberal rule has led to. Current oligarchs are scared that they’re going to be replaced with new ones.
Doesn't matter if they actually argue for more public spending when -at the same time- they beg for return of the debt-brake-fetish party. The one that now is also looking at their new MAGA friends across the pond for pointers on campagning and policies.