Novaya Equestria wrote:Angela Merkel needs to fix her nation.
She can't because the way the political alignment is set up doesn't allow for a coalition to actually fix any of the issues facing us.
If you support a side that's existed for decades while shit's been getting worse, I don't know what to tell you.
Don't you think that's pretty silly?
We either get right wing capitalist nonsense which crushes everybody except the rich, but we also put a halt to progressive anti-white (the majority) and anti-male shit. (And sometimes the right wing is anti-minority too, just to wind things up further.)
Or, we go left and get milquetoast welfare reforms (that eventually lead to "BALANCE THE BOOKS AUSTERITY CUT ALL THE TAXES OH NO WAIT, NOW WE NEED TO CUT WELFARE OOPS.") alongside progressive anti-white shit.
The corbynite/sanderite "Well, let's try some moderately sensible economics alongside the anti-white, anti-male shit." hasn't been tried properly.
How can Merkel fix it?
She can't start assimilating immigrants without the left flipping their fucking shit.
She can't let more in without assimilating them without the right flipping its fucking shit.
She can't invest and grow the economy without the capitalists flipping their fucking shit.
She can only maintain the course, which leaves immigrants coming in, rampant racial tensions, and a complete clusterfuck to distract from the actual issues like, say, international nomadic fucking bandits raiding our economies and stuffing it into panama who are arrogant enough to threaten to leave us alone if we don't do as they say, and don't realize this is an incentive.
It's the same for every western nation right now. The political factions are in deadlock because that's the status quo moneyed interests forced on us, not by deliberate design, but merely market forces. Can't talk about capitalism, gotta make money, gotta have views, let's push the most polarized racist and sexist shit we can and demonize everyone, we gotta compete with clickbait.
The only way she can fix it is to go
"Right, some of you conservatives need to fuck off and join the other party. Some of you leftists get over here." and then we shake shit up by building new directions of travel, with "Okay look. We're going to assimilate the immigrants. That takes fucking money. raise the taxes."
She won't do that, even though the more extreme "We're going to throw all the immigrants out and shit in their cheerios, and raise the taxes" is surging all across the western world.
Even though it would leave the progressives and the right wing capitalists to try and make friends with ea- who the fuck am I kidding, they're already friends in all but official capacity.
This neoliberal, neocon shit?
That's when the corporations really, really started screwing us. That was when we started backsliding. Am I the only one who sees this? It was a goddamn mistake.
We need to go back to paleocons and classical liberals. Maybe socialists too, if they can keep their shit together long enough not to alienate the moderate paleocons.
I'm pretty goddamn sure that so long as you actually enforce equal treatment, celebrate the nation and its history, emphasize socialism as a *national* project, and all that shit, they'll be on board for most of it.
"Welfare."
"No no. We should pay them to... do a thing, like, build a massive statue to our heroes. Because scroungers, also patriotism."
"f...full employment senpai?"
Oh look. A statue. Almost like... a civilization existed here. Gosh. Culture! Holy shit. I forgot about that in the midst of our shopping spree.