• Ooops@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    the CDU stayed, which makes “right-wing populists” a jab.

    Do you really want to pretend that the C*U is doing anything else nowadays but populism? They are basically parroting every culture war bullshit the AfD brings up with some delay.

    They campaigned on “hard work needs to pay off again” before screwing workers, “no new depts, the country doesn’t have a problem of revenue but on of expenses” before taking on a historic amount of dept, just to waste it all on tax cuts and subsidies for the ultra-rich and actually create a revenue problem, while also loudly announcing to reverse all policies of their predecessors (which usually meant just renaming them without much change - normally just removing all measures making them socially acceptable).

    All while rotating so quickly through different groups to blame that the only people they did not insult by now are toddlers and their rich patrons.

    They are the posterchilds of promising everything their voters produce in empty bar talk, yet not delivering anything but platitudes and finger-pointing.

    • plyth@feddit.org
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      9 hours ago

      You are right. First time reading I didn’t put enough weight on populist.