Posted on 10/07/2018 5:56:41 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The German economy is booming. Unemployment is at a near-record low. In Europe and around the world, the country is seen as a beacon of wealth and efficiency.
So why are these prosperous young Germans so doggedly pessimistic about their future?
Peter Matuschek, chief political analyst at the German polling institute Forsa, says that while Germans tend to be content with their own lives, they feel less at ease with the direction the country is taking.
And while the assumption may be that this is a phenomenon among older Germans, it’s also very much affecting the younger generation. Mirroring the post-Brexit vote UK, the data shows that young people feel they’ve been saddled with the problems of their parents and grandparents.
To be fair, it has been a tumultuous summer for Germans. A high-profile showdown over migration nearly brought down the government. Mesut Özil, a member of Germany’s national football team who is of Turkish descent, quit this summer after alleging racism from team members and fans. The incident forced broader discussions about the prevalence of everyday racism in Germany.
And in late August, video footage of far-right sympathisers rioting and chasing foreigners through the streets of Chemnitz, a town in the East German state of Saxony, shook the country and reopened questions about the extent to which Germany has learned from its past.
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Importing antisemites as a way of making amends for the horrors of Nazism will leave native Germans scratching their heads.
Post WWII Germany has had several Trump-like figures already:
Dr. Konrad Adenauer, Dr. Ludwig Erhard, Dr. Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, and Willy Brandt all were leading Germany from its dark past toward a better more optimistic future.
It is the Ost-Kommunist Stasi bitch Merkel who is now dragging the Vaterland into a globalist Islamic abyss.
Merkel’s fault.
Simple - they are beginning to understand ITS NOT THEIR COUNTRY.
The genetic will to fight was purged from the German male population in WWI ad WWII.
Ping
BBC hit piece.
Close-up Julius Tower. (not from ground level but up on the wall). Julius Tower is considered the oldest building in Berlin. (my wife told me)
There was a lot of average people doing cos play. Like this person who walked up from behind my daughter while I was going to take a picture.
My daughter had good fun shooting targets (pic 1, pic 2) and posing with a skull. Heavy Russian WW2 artillery.
Billy Idol played there two months ago.
The German Media is of course talking about ‘unease’ among the leftist younger generation — who they assume represent the entire population of Germans below the age of (say) 35. Of course this isn’t so, hence the apprehension.
A soccer play quit the national team. Big deal! We’ve got a slice of the NFL who refuses to stand for the anthem each week. If they would quit, I know I’d be happier.
What about Spandau Ballet?
Haven’t watched NFL since this started.
Conservatives with money should start a competing football league.
I hope those take a knee bastards get a boot on the butt from the public and they all wind up as Uber Drivers.
Bolsheviks Broadcasting Communism propaganda.
The qualifications to be an uber driver are too high for these knuckleheads to meet.
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