The collective bad conscience from WW2 is really intense in Germany - “Never Again” was a good motto, but it blinds the older Germans to the truth of what Israel is doing. The younger generations see much more clearly that what the Zionists are doing is a genocide, but it will take another 20-30 years to arrive in mainstream politics.
We, being the collective rest of the world, simply do not have that luxury of time. Germany must shift in political awareness as the US has or it will result in more war, more genocide, and even more openly violent rightwing governments.
Germany must shift in political awareness as the US has
Man, i don’t know how to tell you this, but we two are having a very different view of the USA’s political awareness and the shift that happened in the last decades.
You can lean into whatever emotional narrative you want to, the polling data shows a massive shift very quickly towards empathizing with Palestinians and wanting to stop Israel from committing Genocide in the US.
Is there the same shift in Germany?
edit yeah it looks like there is, it just isn’t being reflected in the government so it is less visible internationally.
Supporting deeply unpopular policy absolutely has real world consequences for politicians and political parties, just because power structures are entrenched doesn’t nullify that basic reality.
The collective bad conscience from WW2 is really intense in Germany - “Never Again” was a good motto, but it blinds the older Germans to the truth of what Israel is doing. The younger generations see much more clearly that what the Zionists are doing is a genocide, but it will take another 20-30 years to arrive in mainstream politics.
We, being the collective rest of the world, simply do not have that luxury of time. Germany must shift in political awareness as the US has or it will result in more war, more genocide, and even more openly violent rightwing governments.
Man, i don’t know how to tell you this, but we two are having a very different view of the USA’s political awareness and the shift that happened in the last decades.
You can lean into whatever emotional narrative you want to, the polling data shows a massive shift very quickly towards empathizing with Palestinians and wanting to stop Israel from committing Genocide in the US.
Is there the same shift in Germany?
edit yeah it looks like there is, it just isn’t being reflected in the government so it is less visible internationally.
Which has exactly zero consequences for actual policy. Same as in Germany.
Supporting deeply unpopular policy absolutely has real world consequences for politicians and political parties, just because power structures are entrenched doesn’t nullify that basic reality.
I’m anxiously awaiting those consequences, all we can see from here is the US crashing the world economy to cover for genocide and pedophilia.