Alternative for Deutschland
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
” Why young Germans are feeling gloomy about their country “
How about older Germans?
They should drag that fat sow out of the Prime Minister’s office and replace her with a real patriotic German.
So the article concludes they are gloomy because of the AfD.
They couldn’t possibly be gloomy because Merkel’s government is hell bent on changing the demographics of their country? Or could they?
Germans have ALWAYS been gloomy about something.
There are lessons to be learned from Germany's past, but their leaders are pretending to have learned the wrong lessons. [I hope Merkel is not so stupid that she really believes importing people who do not wish to assimilate is doing the right thing.]
“Learned from the past”?
Try the siege of Vienna.
Yeah, ya know INVASIONS can kinda get a guy down, ya know..?
Wow, they’re soooooo fussy...!
Whining about GENOCIDE, what a pain..!
Lessay you could go back in time to a landing craft with an iPad and footage of what passes for normal in Germany:
How many of our guys would run up Omaha Beach and scale those cliffs..?
Gloomy because of the rise of the far Right ?
What a crock. Who writes this schiss let alone believes it ?
Are the German werewolves rising up?
What’s AfD?
The last time they felt good about themselves led to a big time war.
Why would Germans be gloomy because their country is being taken over by Turks?
#RefugeesWelcome, am I right?
I got about 2/3 of the way through what I mistakenly thought
would be a serious analysis of German’s mood these days until lights started flashing in my head that this was just a hit piece by some lefty.
We too (freepers) are routinely considered “far right” by The Left. My bet is that the Germans rioting about immigration aren’t “far” right at all they are just sick and tired of their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters being raped and felt up on the streets of germany by room temp IQ little brown men practicing a centuries old cult.
In germany, males young and old just realized they have no balls.
In germany, males young and old just realized they have no balls.
A crock is right. I think it’s more likely that they don’t like seeing the country overrun by murdering savages.
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