- cross-posted to:
- europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- cross-posted to:
- europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Berlin’s backing for Israel in the current context has irrevocably ruined Germany’s international standing.
At the same time, as a result of Germany’s neoliberal restructuring, processes of de-democratisation have been ongoing for years.
The deliberate erosion of democracy has paved the way not only for the selective application of international law, but also for the restriction of fundamental rights within Germany itself.
The German population is firmly against their country’s participation in the extermination of the Palestinian people. In a recent poll, 73 percent said they had a negative view of Israel, while 80 percent have rejected further weapons exports to Israel. Despite this, German arms export licenses to Israel have surged, enabling the state to continue committing war crimes.
While the German government’s blatant disregard for the will of its own people already points to a process of de-democratisation, this is exacerbated by domestic restrictions on fundamental rights, including freedom of assembly, freedom of opinion and speech, and academic freedom, alongside violations of due process - all in the service of the Zionist slaughterers.
Yes, there is one big “conservative party”. And the moment two smaller parties coordinated between themselves first to see who of the bigger parties would give them the better deal (FDP-Greens in 2021 obviously chose SPD over CDU) the CDU understood that they could either show some capacity for compromise and sane politicies or never get to power again. At exactly that moment they decided to abandon democracy for power, started parroting far-right bullshit and spread culture-war bullshit 24/7, thus pushing the AfD’s lies into the main stream discussion. Not even surprising given that they are completely corrupt and beholden to the whims of their billionaire donors and lobbyists, and couldn’t do policies for the catual people even if they wanted to.
Alas the then 11% fascists are now standing at 27%… With the result that -just as planned- there can be no majority without the CDU anymore. Either other democratic parties bows down to their insanity (getting totally demolished in the process - see their coalition partner SPD at the moment) to keep the fascists away from power in the name of “democracy” or the CDU will cooperate and bring the AfD to power themselves (the narratives of needing to respect the voters will and cooperating with the AfD are spread strategically by back-benchers every other day, by more prominent members every other week, to normalise the idea - the moment Merz is gone they will pretend that he was the only reason to keep a distance from those fascists). And it’s working like clockwork.
Sure, you can argue that it will kill the long run but a) I already addressed the fact that they will eventually end up getting eaten and b) the corrupt idiots in power don’t care. They will just jump ship in one way (some well-paid board memberships in the companies they actively worked for) or another (joining the AfD, like we already saw with their spiritual predecessors joining the NSDAP back then), because all they care for is staying in power and keeping the corruption/self-enrichment-pipeline going.