Reply #4: This is what happens, when democrats become corporation-whores: [View All]

[Dirk39]

I'm german and I post this from Germany, but I think it might be of some interest:

"Social Democrats Suffer Major Setbacks in Brandenburg

German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s Social Democrat Party took a deep plunge in Sunday’s municipal elections in the eastern state of Brandenburg. For the first time since Germany’s reunification in 1990, the SPD fell well behind the opposition Christian Democratic Union and the former communist Party of Democratic Socialists in many Brandenburg cities. Compared to the last vote five years ago, the ruling SPD lost 15 to 16 percent for a all-time low of 21 percent while the CDU pulled ahead to about 28 percent. State Premier Matthias Platzcek (SPD) attributed his party’s slip in popularity to the federal politics of Chancellor Schröder. "It didn’t help us at all," he said referring to the package of austere social and economic reforms Schröder and the federal coalition of SPD and Greens is pushing through parliament. The setback in Brandenburg is part of a larger trend of losses for the SPD across the country. Only a month ago, it was utterly crushed by the Christian Social Union in Bavaria’s state elections, and at the start of the year it lost out to the CDU in Hesse and Lower Saxony."
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What the article doesn't mention is that only about 46% of the people voted at all. Deutsche Welle is a remaining radio-station from the cold war, who's mainly serving american interests in Germany.

This is just so plain to see: when the only party that somehow represents the interests of the working class is just completely sold out to the interests of corporations, the people who would vote for them stay away, the right wingers win, and a lot of those middle-class people, who are afraid to lose their position, will rather support far-right-wing-fashist-parties. They were the ones, who made Hitler possible in a situation not to different from what we're facing today.
After I saw, what Clinton did and what happened in GB after Blair was elected, I didn't vote for Schröder and the Greens here in Germany, and I'm proud of it.
Why are the europeans and the north-americans are that mad? Even the people in Latin-America, who are less educated and less informed seem to be much more enlightened about the situation we're in, than the people in Europe and the USA.

Although my impression is that the democratic party in the USA is far more democratic than any party in Germany. Someone like Kucinich wouldn't be possible within the german democratic party. I like this guy so much. Please export him to Germany if you don't need him in the US.

Hello from Germany,
Dirk