The neoliberal Free Democratic Party played a decisive role in shaping politics in Germany. After a wipeout in the last federal election, the party is fighting for survival ahead of important state elections.
They played a decisive role in the past… as a liberal party, or at least while still pretending to be something else than unchecked neoliberals exclusively.
Yet they have turned their backs one every single liberal idea they once represented, to the point that I would argue they have long crossed the line from (more or less corrupt…) party working mainly on behalf of their rich donors to a pure lobbying organisation for just a a few ultra-rich that tries to cosplay as a real party.
And as such they simple don’t deserve anything above ~1%. That’s already much more than the fraction of voters they represent.
What Germany actually needs is a liberal party. But the FDP just isn’t it. Not after the last time in government where they finally betrayed even the last shreds of their former political position and decided to sell out privacy for the usual AI bullshit and to even shit on their beloved free-market for idiotic subsidies that were nothing more than thinly disguised donations for their fossil fuel buddies.
What Germany does not need at all are even more neoliberals.
The ironic part is that the FDP is bascially AfD light, but something like the NEOS in Austria or whatever Macrons parts is called right now would do okay in German elections.
They played a decisive role in the past… as a liberal party, or at least while still pretending to be something else than unchecked neoliberals exclusively.
Yet they have turned their backs one every single liberal idea they once represented, to the point that I would argue they have long crossed the line from (more or less corrupt…) party working mainly on behalf of their rich donors to a pure lobbying organisation for just a a few ultra-rich that tries to cosplay as a real party.
And as such they simple don’t deserve anything above ~1%. That’s already much more than the fraction of voters they represent.
What Germany actually needs is a liberal party. But the FDP just isn’t it. Not after the last time in government where they finally betrayed even the last shreds of their former political position and decided to sell out privacy for the usual AI bullshit and to even shit on their beloved free-market for idiotic subsidies that were nothing more than thinly disguised donations for their fossil fuel buddies.
What Germany does not need at all are even more neoliberals.
The ironic part is that the FDP is bascially AfD light, but something like the NEOS in Austria or whatever Macrons parts is called right now would do okay in German elections.
to be fair - the German FDP may call itself “liberal”, but they’re, in fact, libertarian if you look into the details.