I think, like many other socialist parties, they kept holding to Third Way politics and hoping that the electorate would follow them as the "reasonable" alternative to populist rhetoric. And like...
I think, like many other socialist parties, they kept holding to Third Way politics and hoping that the electorate would follow them as the "reasonable" alternative to populist rhetoric. And like their European sister parties they paid the price for it: in trying to appeal to everyone they appealed to nobody.
Thanks for the outline link. I think it's a good decision by the SPD and a step in the right (or rather left) direction. Let's hope it results in actions and not just talk, as the whole political...
Thanks for the outline link.
I think it's a good decision by the SPD and a step in the right (or rather left) direction. Let's hope it results in actions and not just talk, as the whole political landscape in Germany has been moving almost exclusively more to the right in terms of social wellfare structures and fair wages.
Sadly, in the last election cycle they had some great potential with leftist policies as well until they lost their backbone and joined the great coalition again (CDU/CSU+SPD, a formation that is...
Sadly, in the last election cycle they had some great potential with leftist policies as well until they lost their backbone and joined the great coalition again (CDU/CSU+SPD, a formation that is at this point the subject of fossil record), against what they promised only weeks prior.
The Postillion, the onion for german, joked about this today; "SPD starts traditional half-year of left policies before elections" [https://www.der-postillon.com/2019/02/traditionelles-linkes-halbjahr.html].
Personally I'm rooting for the PARTEI (I did vote for them last time), they're in part why we have the EU's ePrivacy initiative (GDPR and friends).
I think, like many other socialist parties, they kept holding to Third Way politics and hoping that the electorate would follow them as the "reasonable" alternative to populist rhetoric. And like their European sister parties they paid the price for it: in trying to appeal to everyone they appealed to nobody.
Thanks for the outline link.
I think it's a good decision by the SPD and a step in the right (or rather left) direction. Let's hope it results in actions and not just talk, as the whole political landscape in Germany has been moving almost exclusively more to the right in terms of social wellfare structures and fair wages.
Sadly, in the last election cycle they had some great potential with leftist policies as well until they lost their backbone and joined the great coalition again (CDU/CSU+SPD, a formation that is at this point the subject of fossil record), against what they promised only weeks prior.
The Postillion, the onion for german, joked about this today; "SPD starts traditional half-year of left policies before elections" [https://www.der-postillon.com/2019/02/traditionelles-linkes-halbjahr.html].
Personally I'm rooting for the PARTEI (I did vote for them last time), they're in part why we have the EU's ePrivacy initiative (GDPR and friends).